The Snowflake herald., 1916-10-27

years become socially, politically and
morally bankrupt He has not helped
Mexico. He has ruined Mexico. The
jungle is creeping over the great plan
tations. The cattle on the ranches
have become wantonly and wastfully
slaughtered. The thoroughbred stock
farms which were the work of de-
cades have been destroyed. Irriga-
ton plants are out of service. rail
roads terminals have been burnt, roll
ing stock and locomotives broken up
and damaged beyond repair. Mines
that furnish employment to scores of
| thousands are standing idle. The
national treasury has been emptied.
/ A paper currency, debased and worth
less, has been substituted for the ma
| tion's money. All the means of an
orderly economic life have been de-
stroyed. An epidemic of typhus RACES
that twice has menaced the health Of
our border cities. The country no
| longer produces sufficient foodstuffs
Actual starvation is upon the people.
Sixty thousand white men, who were
one of the great civilizing and develop
! ing forces Of Mexico, are in exile The
! jungle, the desert and a cruel primitive
savagery hold sway. Carranza's gov
ernment is but a shell of authority,
based on murder and plunder, limited
to few of the larger cities and rail-
road lines. in antagonism to every or
ganiZing force upon which a govern
ment can rest. The absolute refusal
of the outside world to lend it money
is evidence of the low credit in which it
is held, and is also a grim commentary
on Mr.. Wilson's folly in assailing the
American miners, ranchers, working
men, investors and business men, who
alone rendered possible healthy pros
perity in Mexico
A Disregarded Trust
In the message above referred to
President Wilson said that it was our
duty to discharge the trust that "the
great powers of the world had placed
in our hands with reference to Mex
ico." But he has done nothing to
discharge this trust He has sent our
sailors and soldiers to invade Mexi-
can soil. These men have shot down
Mexicans and have themselves been
killed. But nothing has resulted, ex-
cept to increase the hatred of the
Mexicans for Americans. He has
continually protestd that he would
not intervene in Mexico, and yet he
has intervened continually in every
way from diplomacy to war; but al
ways with futility, and always with
timidity He has sinned heavily
against Mexico He has sinned against
humanity. He has sinned most heav-
lily against the United States. He has
allowed Mexico to drift into bloody
anarchy. Mexico needs peace and Sc
curity. We can give peace and secur1
ity to Mexico, but only if we show
courage and resolution. If we fail
then some foreign power will in the
end itself do the task, and make Mexi-
co it's servant, to our own irreparable
damage. Mr.. Wilson is inviting this
disaster
The Balkans of America
1t can not be a mater of indiffer-
ence to us what kind of a govern
ment arises in Mexico. Mexico in it's
geographical and physical aspects, with
the Panama canal adjoining, repre-
sents to the United States what the
Balkans and Asia Minor represent to
Europe. There the Dardanelles and
the Suez canal are the prize, valuable
as the Panama canal is valuable to us,
as a source of profit and national
power After a decade of internal
warfare and struggle in the Balkans,
the present world war resulted. If we
let Mexico sink into permanent anar-
chy, and show ourselves too feeble to
restore order, then sooner or later some
old world military power will itself
step in and take possession with re
suits as disastrous to us as the anarchy
in the Balkan peninsula has been dis
astrous to Europe Mexico, like Asia
Minor, is a mountainous peninsula
It dominates the Caribbean and has
| immediate access to both ends of the
Panama canal. The government in
Mexico must necessarily interact with
and upon the governments and pop
ulation Of the northern half of the
South American continent. A strong
and stable government in Mexico,
| in harmonious relations with the Uni
/ ted States, could establish security
| for property and make 1t possible for
American enterprise to carry railroads,
! irrigation works and other benefits of
/ civilization into that territory. The
! development of the Mexican railroad
net would enable the United States,
| in case the need ever arose to help
ward off aggression by foreign
power. A railroad extending to the
Panama would give us access by land
| to the canal, with which the future OF
the United States is so intimately
bound up. Such a Mexican govern
ment, representing the best forces OF
that country, would be eager to work
with us by the free exchange of what
they have to give in return for the ad-
vantage of what we can offer them.
Such a government would be Of in
calculable benefit to Mexico ITSELF and
would also add greatly to the security
of the United States A weak. disor-
organized Mexican government as
! willing or unwilling ally Of a foreign