The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-09-28
MEXICAN PEACE
(From the Chicago Trlbune,)

1t is not surprising that the secre-
tary of war shows a Discrimination to
credit the detailed reports of Villas
raid upon Chihuahua. We are sup
posed. officially, to be at peace with
Mexico and Mexico to be at peace
with itself To have this ruthless
objector thrusting the painful fact OF
his troublesome existence through the
SNOWY fabric OF administrative optim-
ism is sorry stroke OF logic. villa
must stay dead until November az
least.
Nearly seven months have elapsed
since the raid on Columbus and the
trumpet blast from Washington, Get
villa, dead or alive!"
But villa was not got" dead or
alive. What we got was a military
expedition. hampered at every step
by the faction we had set upon lts
shaking legs in Mexico. We have been
insulted officially, refused assistance,
betrayed ut Parral. murderously
slashed ut Carrizal, Inundated, and
thrust back almost without results.
What we got was the death OF our sol
dters, the massacre Of our civilians,
the intensification Of popular hatred
and contempt OF us among the Moxi-
can people. defeat. suffering, death,
and the mobilization of all our avail
able soldiers, regular and civilian, at
very heavy cost, private and public,
TO sustain the shaking foundations
OF bogus peace.
Villa is still factor In the Mexican
problem and will remain factor until
dealt with efficiently.
The army would have attended to
that long ago II 1t had been permitted
to do so. When Pershing went into
Mexico Villa and his forces were the
least Of his difficulties. There were
two more serious; two, In fact, which
made success impossible. One Of these
was the policy of Carranza; the other
was the policy Of Wilson.
AS to the first, although our sup
port alone had made Carranza's
dubious government possible, our
troops were denied the use Of the
railroads controlled by our beneficiary.
This would not only have saved US
expense. Its refusal made 1t trebly
difficult and dangerous to accomplish
the task OF international police we
were legitimately attempting to per-
form. 1t not only necessitated the
prolongation OF the pursuit, objected
to by our supposed ally, and tho in
crease OF the expeditionary force, also
objected to by our supposed ally, but
in the end 1t made our effort futile.
The Carranza government, existing
chiefly by our favor, refused TO render
any assistance to us by placing its
rail and other resources at our dis
posal; 1t failed to employ such forces
as 1t had TO prevent Villas retreat in
to the interior; and 1t finally, at Par
raj. Carrlzal, and elsewhere, actually
turned these forces against our troops.
The result was n wretched fasco,
two military defeats OF our troops by
forces of our beneficiary, the spread
ing Of the belief throughout Mexico
that we are too feeble and pusillani
nous to enforce our rights or to de-
fend our citizens and our territory,
and finally 1t brought about the sum-
moning Of the guard and the main
tenance in the field Of citizen army
never intended for such service, in
numbers larger than any force called
out by us since the civil war.
Against the background of this
fiasco we now have the solemn farce
OF an international conference and a
political slogan, ''He kept us out of
war"
What is now TO be done?
Are Pershing's worn out soldiers to
be kept in Mexico for political effect?
Gen. Funston has fatty informed
Washington that so long as Gen.
Pershing is prohibited from moving
his army with freedom, as he has been
from the beginning, under the remark
able policy OF our state department,
he might as we'll be on this side Of the
border. His work cannot be accom-
plished and his command will be help
less in the midst Of constant danger
II It is to be used for political rather
than military purposes.
Is the guard to be used for the
same purpose? Is it to stay or come
back? II it is to stay, is 1t to stay
for military purposes and be used for.
such purposes or Is 1t to stay for
political purposes?
II there is any warning In the past
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