Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1916-07-07
MEXICO IN PARTY PLATFORMS

MEXICO IN PARTY PLATFORMS
1t is instructive to note the planks
il the party platforms on the Mexican
issue It is hard to make out what
the Republican plank means, unless
it is intended as a call for prompt in
tervention by force. 1t sweepingly
dcnounces the Mexicans themselves
and our own Administration alike
and ends with the following words:
We pledge our aid in restoring or
der and maintaining peace in Mexico.
We promise to our citizens on and
near our border, and to those in
Mexico, wherever they may be found,
adequate and absolute protection in
their lives, liberty, and property
The Progressive platform has the
following:
Failure to deal firmly and promptly
with the menace of Mexican disorders
has brought conditions worse than
warfare and has weakened our nation
al self-respect. Every resource of
Government should be forthwith used
TO end these conditions and protect
from outrage the lives, honor, and
property of American men and women
in Mexico.
Certainly nothing could be stronger
in words than these pronounc ements
of the two Chicago conventions. The
Democratic plank at St. Louis was
carefully shaped to support exactly
what the Administration had already
done. 1t reads as follows:
The ant of stable, responsible
government in Mexico, capable of
depressing and furnishing marauders
and bandit bands, who have not only
taken the lives and seized and des-
uoyed the propesty Of American citi-
Gems in that country, but have lnso-
lently invaded our soil, made war up
On and murdered our people there
on, has rendered it necessary temper
artly to occupy, by our armed forces,
a portion of the territory of that
friendly state. Until, by the restora
don Of law and order therein, repe-
Htion of such incursions is improba
bic, the necessity for their remaining
will continue. Intervention, implying,
as 1t does, military subjugation, is re-
voting to the people Of the United
States, notwithstanding the provoca
ton to that course has been great,
and should be resorted to, if at all,
only as last resort. The stubborn
resistance of the President and his
advisers to every demand and sugges-
ton to enter upon it is creditable
alike to them and to the people in
whose name he speaks
This seems clearly intended to pave
the way to prompt intervention rs
matter forced by conditions upon
patient and unwilling Administration.
The language is probably that of
Senator Stone, of Missouri, who was
chairman of the platform committee.
In the Republican convention at Chi
cago, Senator Fail, Of New Mexico,
who is the foremost advocate in Con-
gress of Mexican intervention, made
the speech presenting Colonel Roose-
welt as a Presidential candidate. All
the platforms, therefore, mean inter-
vention if they mean anything; and
the president is justified in expecting
strong support from all parties and
clements in Congress for any vigor
ous measures he may choose to en-
pQoy. The country does not wish war
hut realizes that we are justified in
trying to protect our border and to
adj in paciying northern Mexico
Frof The Progress of the World, in
rha American Review of Reviews for
July, 1915.