New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-06

control tho bandit area OF our army
operation, which is a region of abso-
lutte anarchy. where no distinction be
tween Carranzista and Nillista, so far
as concerns US, exists.
Silent on Military Aspect.
Could he deny this? Could he give
some explanation OF why, while ever
since the beginning OF the Villa hunt
there had been deliberate Carranzista
opposition instead Of cooperation, mat
tiers could be exactly reversed because
two gentlemen had signed a compact
across a table and their chiefs nodded
at IL? I had high hopes. Perhaps
after all. ! had been deceived by living
too long with the exuberant. purblind
military. and that in FL Paso, II not al
Nsmiquipa, miracles could be wrought
But this confidante OF the Mexican
government, deus eXmachina OF the
Washington one. could or would not en-
tighten me. With dark, depressing
significance. as | thought, these were
the sole subjects on which he would
not speak, this patriot, q.
81 wish you could deny ell this,
said. II can say nothing The ~ufin
mouth snapped 10.
.
you won't prove me wrong, from keep.
ing I'D my insistence upon the truth OF
what I've told YOU
lie only lurched his heavy body, with
a negative, all but menacing movement.
Still. on other germane subjects, he
was anything but an oyster. lie was
keen. logical, informed about the MeXl-
can dilemma as whole, even to the
extent of agreeing that its halfbreed
Indians and children of Spanish buc-
cancers could never govern themselves
without our Intervention. But not yet.
Never excise a sore, If you can keep on
poulticing it; lose honor, but never
blood.
Strongly he insisted that the punt
tive expedition at no time had any
right i'm Mexico, or permission to go
there; that no Mexican government, by
international law, could be held re-
sponsible for the two hundred or more
murders of Americans in its realm.
Only, he could not see that Northern
Chihuahua to-day is a no mans realm,
a country more virgin and free by the
REIMBURSEMENT of all national author
ity over it, than was Mexico when
Cortez first landed there; and. so, any
bodys land. And he drove home his
many put yourself in the poor Mexi-
cans place" examples by picturing our
feelings If they invaded this country,
and with those arguments from a sim
gle example so dear TO every Western
miner.
Deems President Ever Right.
One must trust and obey the Execu-
tive power in Washington, temporary
though il is, above the peoples desire
and against any immutable principles
of race and humanity. Not my coun-
try. right or wrong, but our President,
infallible, was his idea. The govern
ment, because of its great resources or
information, must know more than any
individual about Mexico, and 40 be
right and beyond criticism. Not the
examples of O'Shaughnessy, Lund.
Washington's neglect of Henry Lane
Wilson's unanswered appeals for help
when Madero was murdered, not even
the incident Of withdrawing our ships
from the Tampico River could persuade
him of either its ignorance or folly.
Not 10 take this view was "uncon-
servative," he said; and | writhed in
deed
What a great chance you have
missed" ! said.
Still, you could not blame him. You
or likely !. raised suddenly from the
presidency OF a Parral mining company
even though it had once offered TO
pay the Mexican national debt, as had
his might have been equally lattered
into insisting black was white had we
been so suddenly plunged into the
epochal counsels of the great.
IL was only when we proceeded ineyi-
tably 20 discuss the details of Parral
that he showed so much as a crack in
his armor. Now his patriotism took the