Bisbee daily review., 1916-02-24
THE BIsBEE DAILY REVIEW THURSDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY

tremely alert. and will scarcely over look the opportunity to recognize Elm peror Yuan Shi-kai first. unless the United States acts more precipitately than usually is it's practice.
 The attitude of the Entente Powers towards the monarchy is clearly the enc thing which is delaying the prog ress of the monarchical plan, and wor- rying the Chinese government far more than revolutionary outbreaks at a great distance from the capital city. Chinese officials are studying all in- .ernational precedents for the recog- milton of new governments, and the vernacular papers abound in discus sions as to the position the various foreign governments will take when China formally proclaims her emperor.
 The Picking Daily News. which is semi-official in character, prints an ed itorial today devoted to the considera-
 ion of Americas recognition policy.
 t is based largely on a recent book 5y Julius Goebel, Jr., called "The Rec ognition Policy of the United States" The editorial reviews the attitude of the United States towards new for eign governments historically. and comments al length on the policy of Jefferson, the first American who e. lunciated the doctrine that a new gov arnment is entitled to recognition when it has established itself de facto that is, when il is master of the situ- ation. able to repel attacks and main iain some sort of public order. The News discussed the application of this doctrine by the United States in it's recognition of the new Spanish-Ameri- can states as they discovered them elves from Spain.
 In speaking of the American adop- ton of this policy towards the Latin American states, the News states Tt was followed all the more heartily, be- cause those new governments were re- publican, for to be republic in form was in those days a thing which con- nended its government to all the friends of freedom. since they had not yet learned from experience and truth that form and name have little to do with practical excellence"
 E Reviewing the Civil War period in America. the editorial comments on a change of the American policy so as to fit international conditions which had arisen in the United States. The adoption by Mir Seward, the then sec retary of state, of the older view that new government should have a good legal title as well as actual power greatly modified the thought in Amer ica concerning recognition of a new government. and the News arrives at the conclusion that there are now two distinct views in America. One is that any new government with adequate powers to support itself should be rec 9gnized The other is that any new government worthy of recognition must show itself to have legitimate and popular approval.
 President Wilson" says the News
 would seem to have taken the latter view in the recent case of Huerta
 President Roosevelt the former in the case of the rapid recognition of the re public Of Panama. Arguments may be adduced for both views, and inc facts vary so much in different case that il is hard to lay down any princi
 ple as universally applicable, so that Inconsistencies discernible in the poll
 cy American statesmen have followed are not only eXcusable, but to somC extent unavoidable. Whatever views
 nay have prevailed at the time we
 have to remember that America va nD m INT ONDD Dn HIN WY