Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-07-06
South American Resentment
Sure 10 Flame Up if DraS-
He Action Is Taken in Mex
can Crisis,
cARRANZA APPEALS TO
RACIAL PRElUDICES
DIPLOMATS South Of Equator
Believe United States Should
Avoid War With People Be-
low the Rio Grande,

,.srrt,l cosREsPoNpENeE TO MORNING JOURNAL
"Vyashinpton. July 5.-There is one
met above others, on the diploma
tic side of the Mexican dltIleuilE
mich is indicated in all the outglN-
mos of the administration authorities
Tbat is the adverse effect OF 1ntefNeh-
ton ON the pan-Ameriean pollcy that
mas been incubated in the last rev
veors Therefore there Is real nope
now that a way may be Iouhd loI
maintenance of peace
An advices from the Latin-AmeIl-
can republics to the south disclose
the prospect that the minute tle
United states intervenes IN Mexico
ma matter how disinterested It's mo-
tive, there viii be lost the good VIII
mat the American government anu
.an5,narcfal interests have tried so
hard to preserve. Some OF the .ld-
ditional suspicion of the South Am
"r as 10 the purposes of the
I-nitad states has been dispelled by
mo utterances and actions of Presl-
oent Wilson. yet this suspicion mas as
been SO thoroughly rooted that II WIN
rot reauire much to fan into activity
May Lose Friendship
Tto state department has ioreseen
MAT fine friendliness and prestige cul-
tivated in the recent pah-A illet leel,
eanfarances were in danger of belnG
s,,iashed ia hits i'm the handling of the
Mexifan problem and it is quite cyl
dent MAT this consideration was m
fuantial with the president in SHOW.
inc nattence and forebearance toward
tba Mexican faetionists. 1t explains
why The president called the a. =. -
conference on Mexico affairs at NJ
agara Falls two years ago. Al tha'
time the officials of the leading SCUM
American republics were conNlhVeu
of the unselfish motives Of TINS coull7
try. but the public was skepucal an"
wanted to be shown,
Mr.. Wilson made his famous MO
bile speech and in it he pledged aHe"
the good faith Of the United states
Ia the maintenance of beneVolehl
friendship with the smaller repuplles
IN the south. He said that the uhileG
states had no motive of conquest ana
would never take another inch OF ter
ritory by aggression. The speech W"S
well received in South America anu
helped the United States along IN the
probation process.
Carranza Quotes Grant.
That General Carranza is aware o.
tbe antIpathies to be aroused III oouOl
America bv armed Intervention d
demonstrated by passages in his latt
note demanding the WITHDRAWN %
American troops from Mexican sou
In all comics of this document WhltI
are heing distributed to newspaper
here are attached excerpts from IN,
memoirs of General L. s. Grant az
bearing on the first Mexican war dl1'
now quoted to prove there is aHPp
foundation for imputing Interior It'o
tives to the United states.
President Wilson ne less than ven
eraI Carranza, has been aware Oh t'I
potential effect of the Mexican pol.
on the Monroe doctrine ana the new
en- PAM Americanism. lie mas hlo W
thai Ia 90 into Mexico as q duty I'M
posed by the Monroe doctrine M"Vi
make that policy of the United 9late
more disliked than ever IN me soI l,-,
eru republics, that it would accelei
ate the common view, there held, tina
the Monroe doctrine was CLOAK 10
political ACCOMPLISHMENT and SENS
seheming.
Wants Pan Americanism.
II has been the presidents IKE
idea that the republics of the Westet
world must stand, banded toRethc
against all possible aggression lIol
the European powers. He proclallue
this idea in his address to cohsfe'
last December.
There is no doubt the presloei
would like TO have the cooperate
Of the South American couhttle
There is also no doubt that there
a class of public men in South An
erica who would like to work al"i
these lines with the United States, "
they would be lacking in publlc sul
port and so the plan of JOINT ac'0
is not in good working order
Back of all this prayertul effort
make pan Americanism lVlng -
stituton is the fixed policy OF u
United States to keep the Eufopea
powers from gaining too strong ).
foothold to the south In the al
ferent republics, through financlai !
vestments, there is already a stfol
property interest. The United Stat
wants TO resist European poltlcal j
fluence, wholly aside from any que
ton of commercial trading. And u