The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-03-13

One of the blessings that the European war confers upon America, in addition to the constant orders for munitions which have create! a nationwide prosperity and en- ables those who own war babies to net something over cent per cent, is the very real if somewhat less material fact that Mexico is not go. ing to unduly excite the nation, ana whether the expedition now planned against Villa remain merely punl- tive or becomes & war of tho United States of America against the United States of Mexico, there Is likely to be no very great excess of war fever outside some professional and financial circles.
 No one can read of the wanton attack upon the people of Colum- bus without desiring that those who made that attack should be punished or placed where there could be no longer any recurrence of such an outrage.
 If it was authorized by Villa, surely Villa should be put with his bandits in the clear, for he is C monaco to the national peace as well as the national safety of both Mex ico and the United States.
 At the same time there are mat ters connected with that raid whihc would we'll be cleared up. There are certain things that look extremely suspicious It is not the first time that raids have been made, anc those raids which we know of have been inspired not so much by the Mexicans, but by outsiders inter ested in Mexico.
 The influences opposing Mexican autonomy are great and powerful The interests which have been clam bring for intervention have been some of them the most powerful iE the world And it is quite on the cards that they may have supported villa and bribed him to mako this attack upon the people of Columbus, just as they backed Huerta, as they backed Felix Diaz and as they back ed Orozco in his fatal raids.
 For this reacon it would appear just as necessary to administer punishment to them as it seems de- sirable to capture Villa, and it would be nothing short of calamity if in stead of respecting the sovereignty of the republic of Mexico, tho United States forces were to effect that in tervantion which outside infiue Ice without scruple and without consci- ence have been tirolessly cndeayor- ing. to effect.
 TO ra.pe the independence of Mex ico would be nothing short of calamity, ard one that would almost immediately find itself reflected ih the United States.
 Very wise men who have been watching the progress of the United States as the coming dominant fac tor in South American trade have stated that the careful policy of President Wilson towards Mexico has resulted in the reputation ot the United States successfully re- establishing itself throughout the various republics. The consequence. too. has been that American trade and American finance have succeeded in obtaining a footing which it never had before.
 A war against Mexico, no matter how humanitarian may be the mo tive, would destroy all this.
 1t is a peculiar thing, but except the nation starting war, absolutely every other nation refuses to accept any such thing as a humanitarian motive therein. This is an invari. able rule. The world large turns aside in disgusted disDelief of any hum unitarian motive that inspires a pred atory or warlike movement.
 Even in the Spanish American war the world at large positively refused to see in it anything but a desire upon the part of the United States to oust Spain and erect itself as the dominant power in the Carri- bean Sea, to avail itself of coaling stations. to promote tho well being of tobacco companies, iron ore com panics. and the sugar trust as we'll
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