Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-10-22
Country Is Likely TO Be
Knocked rostrate Once
More if He Is
Defeated.
BY GEORGE MINER.

IMr. Miner is n well-known New
York newspaper man. He has held
editorial positions on the World. Her.
aid. Sun and other papers. and has done
good work a European correspond-
ent. lie is thoroughly convcrsant with
conditions in Mexico. whence he only
recently returned. Mr.. Miner first
went to Mexico ten years ago. at
which time he made the acquaintance
of President Porfrio Diaz. whom he
persuaded to agree to an arrangement,
whereby the United States and Mexico
would join in preserving order in Cen
trail America. protecting property. fos-
tering trade and preventing senselcss
revolutions. This bill was introduced
into Congress, but was defeated. AT
that time Mr.. Miner travelled all over
Mexico. from the Rio Grandc to the
lsthmus of -Editor.I
Mexico. bruised and bleeding. is on
her knees, struggling to set up.
Whether she rises and stands and
takes her place among the nations OF
the earth depends very largely on the
reelection of President Wilson.
Failing that, Mexico will be knocked
PROSTATE again, as surely as anything
can be. and all her five years of strus-
gle will have been for naught Her
salvation depends on the continuance
of President Wilson's patient and far
seeing policy. If this policy is deviatcd
from or wantonly aggressive policy
substituted, the result will be the en-
enlargement of lawlcssness and the
bandit element, more civil strife and
possibly anarchy.
Then. to save Mexico and the half
billion dollars of American money in
vested there. the work of the revolu-
ton will have to be done all over
again. Mexico is in no condition TO
stand five years more OF internal strife.
She has had enough Of it. She is pretty
we'll worn out with it.
Surprising as it may seem, in Wow
OF the fact that we have Il large Ameri-
can army on the border, the great ma
jority of Mexican people are warm adj
mircrs Of President Wilson. They be-
lieve he is their sincere friend They
are confident that he does not want to
steal their country or confscate valua-
Bile concessions for the benefit of
greedy American capitalists.
WANT ELIMINATION OF
BANDITS AND OUTLAWS
They realize that the American army
is on the Rio Grande to suppress and.
If possible, eliminate the bandits and
outlaws, and not to fight the Mexicans
people and capture the country. None
wants TO see that done--the climina-
tlon of the bandits and outlaws-more
than the MeXicans themselves, for they
have suffered hundred times more
from the depredations OF these ma
rauders than have any other nationals.
l have put that percentage far too
low. / believe l am safe in saving
that for every American who has been
killed or wronged by bandits down
there are at least 500 Mexicans who
have suffered equally.
OF course. in the United States we
hear only of the outrages that have
been committed on our own country
men. We hear nothing Of how tho
Mexicans themselves have suffered
from the operations of the followers
of Villa and Zapata or from bands of
desperadoes who call themselves, or
rather who arc called. followers of
those two villains. The Mexicans had
their fill of that sort Of trouble when
the whole country was at war and
there was no peace anywhere. They
are sick and tired Of it all. and long
for good order and n chance to redeem
their country without any political up
hoavals.
And that Is just what is happening
In Mexico. She has come up victorious
from the struggle OF civil war, and
is on her knees.
All that Is needed Is the moral sup
port OF the United States to lift Mex
leo to her fsot and. assure her peace