The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-02
''JuSTICE" SUMS UP WILSON'S POLICY
 ON MEXICAN AFFAIRS

sinister designs engaged in the com mission of intolerable wrongs against the United States
 The American forces were not sent into Vera Cruz to compel n salute to the American flag. When Huerta re- fused the Presidents ultimatum. he created g. need that more complete ] reparation be given for his ohenses. That was the sort of reparation which the President was intent upon pro- curing. In a word. 1t was to break the waning poer of the Dictator and to
 bring his bloody reign to an end, since in no other way could normal international relations be restored" The article tells the history of the conditions in Mexico which brought about the revolution there, and sets forth the facts which justified the revolution. It treats the Columbus out rage as a horror which compelled prompt punitive action by the United
 States, but as an offense committed by a reckless and criminal faction which was seeking to prevent the suc- cess of the fundamental objects of the revolution.
 Villa, hopeless of making head way against Carranza as things stood, adopted Huerta's policy of attempting to provoke American intervention. He hoped by arousing their national pride to rally to his standard many of Car ranza's soldiers and to peresent him. self to the ignorant, Mexican people in the guise of their would-be savior from a foreign invader. The bandit hi deadly earnestness. Jan. 12, 1916, he caused the murder of IT American citizens near Piedras Negras, Mexico. March g, he personally led a raiding band across the border and attacked the town of Columbus, New Mexico, which was guarded by a detachment of American cavalry.
 'The conscience of the American people demanded that the perpetra- tors of this outrage be given swift punishment. Villas conspiracy to provoke intervention had fallen short of its goal. but he had brought about a situation wherein it was evident that the United States could not rely upon Carranza's soldiers, who were few in number alOngsthe international boundary, to suppress the brigands of Northern Mexico. The President dealt with this situation in the same firm manner in which he had dealt with Huerta's offences against American sovereignty. He ordered an adequate armed force, under General Pershing- to pursue Villa into Mexico and to crush or disperse his lawless bands"
 General Pershing's success in break ing up Villas band is then described, and the story is led up to the fight at Carrizal. This precipitated a crisis, the article states, which nearly led to war.
 There was powerful pressure for war-a terrible war-by a well-armed powerful nation against an unarmed, bankrupt people, exhausted by five years of civil strife, but who still re- tained enough of patriotic feeling to unify them against an invader. It was the old, old question whether the United States should impose a peace on Mexico; whether, for the sake of the interests of a few of it's citizens, it should permanently suppress Mex ico's upreaching toward freedom and self-government. What killing. irony it would have been, even in these try ing circumstances, for this custodian of mankind's idea1s-herself compos- ite of all the peoples of the earth--to say to Mexico. The germ of self government in you is incapable of fructifying. Your revolutions lead only to new revolutions, and not free dom and peace as did the revolutions of France. You must submit to a dic- tator, you must be governed by an iron hand. and the United States vii! see to it that you are.'
 President Wilson and the Demo- cratic administration, contemplating this prospect, said, No. There will be no glory in such a war The Presi- dent thought of war in Europe, of the clear prospect for a Pan-American understanding with all our neighbors. the Latin-Americas, and of its mes- sage of peace to Europe by an agree ment not to intervene in and exploit the little nations of the world"