The Arizona copper camp., 1916-10-27

based on murder and plumber, limited
to few Of the larger cities and rail-
road lines, in antagonism to every or
ganizing force upon which a govern
ment can rest The absolute refusal
of the outside world to lend it money
is evidence of the low credit in which it
is held, and is also a grim commentary
on Mr.. Wilson's folly in assailing the
American miners, ranchers, working
men, investors and business men, who
alone rendered possible a healthy pros
perity in Mexico
A Disregarded Trust
In the message above referred to
President Wilson said that it was our
duty to discharge the trust that "the
great powers of the world had placed
in our hands with reference to Mex
ico." But he has done nothing to
discharge this trust. He has sent our
sailors and soldiers to invade Mexi-
can SOIL These men have shot down
Mexicans and have themselves been
killed. But nothing has resulted, ex-
cept to increase the hatred of the
Mexicans for Americans He has
continually protestd that he would
not intervene in Mexico, and yet he
has intervened continually in every
way from diplomacy to war; but al
ways with futility, and always with
timidity. He has sinned heavily
against Mexico. He has sinned against
humanity. He has sinned most heav-
lily against the United States. He has
allowed Mexico to drift into bloody
anarchy. Mexico needs peace and Sc
curity. We can give peace and secur+
ity to Mexico, but only if we show
courage and resolution. If we fail,
then some foreign power will in the
end itself do the task, and make Mexi-
co it's servant, to our own irreparable
damage. Mr.. Wilson is inviting this
disaster.
The Balkans of America
1T can not be matter of indiffer-
ence to us what kind of a govern
ment arises in Mexico. Mexico in it's
| geographical and physical aspects, with
| the Panama canal adjoining, repre-
sents to the United States what the
Balkans and Asia Minor represent to
! Europe. There the Dardanelles and
the Suez canal are the prize, valuable
as the Panama canal is valuable to us,
as source of profit and national
power. After a decade of internal
warfare and struggle in the Balkans,
the present world war resulted. If we
let Mexico sink into permanent anar-
chy, and show ourselves too feeble to
restore ORDER then sooner or later some
old world military power will itself
step in and take possession, with re-
suits as disastrous to us as the anarchy
! in the Balkan peninsula has been dis
astrous to Europe, Mexico, like Asia
/ Minor, is a mountainous peninsula.
1t dominates the Caribbean and has
immediate access to both ends of the
Panama canal The government in
Mexico must necessarily interact with
and upon the governments and pop
/ ulation of the northern half of the
I South American continent. A strong
and stable government in Mexico
in harmonious relations with the Uni
ted States, could establish security
| for property and make it possible for
American enterprise to carry railroads.
irrigation works and other benefits of
civilization into that territory. The
development of the Mexican railroad
net would enable the United States
in case the need ever arose to help
ward off aggression by a foreign
power. A railroad extending to the
Panama would give us access by land
to the canal, with which the future of
the United States is so intimately
bound up. Such a Mexican govern
ment, representing the best forces of
that country, would be eager to work
with us by the free exchange of what
they have to give in return for the ad-
vantage of what we can offer them.
Such government would be of in
calculable benefit to Mexico itself, and
would also add greatly to the security
of the United States. A weak, disor-
organized Mexican government as a
willing or unwilling ally of a foreign
power, hostile to our country, might
do, us irreparable damage.
'It will take foresight, intelligence
and self sacrifice on the part of our
statesmen and our people to solve
these problems in the right way now
so as to ward off danger in the fu-
ture. President Wilson's policies have
been without plan or purpose; he has
not looked beyond tomorrow; he has
had no objects aside from momentary
political profit at home, and possibly
the qualification of personal spite to-
wards or personal favoritism for, some
particular bandit. His attitude has
shifted hither and thither. At an enor-
nous expense to all that is good and
stable in Mexico and at terrible cost
of American lives. property and pres
/ tige he has lifted Carranza into power
through the maneuvering of an ABB
| G convention he placed him upon his
shaky pedestal and today by the ex-
pedient of another LOU convention
he is trying to prop and bolster the
! tottering structive. Yet at this very
| time, Carranza's government, which is
wholly the child of President Wilson'S s
| diplomacy, turns against US and there
by foreshadows the course that this
same man Carranza would take if, by
vaguely hinted that the present ad-
ministration is trying to secure for
him in financial circles, his govern
ment would become strong. This is
shown in the New York World, Will
sons administration organ. In dis
patch from the special representative
at Newport, on October 10th, it set
! forth as soon as the German sub
marine began to operate off the coast
the Carranza delegates at the confer
ence became elated at the prospect
Of this country becoming involved in
further international entanglements
and their attitude stiffened consider
able The threat thus revealed in the
| attitude Of the CarranZa agents is a
sinister omen Of the future danger
|