Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-06-29
An Election And An Issue.


Brought face to face with the stern necessity OF
welding up the imprisoned American troopers or meet
inc war with the United States Carranza yielded. lie
ordered the 10th cavalrymen taken from Chihuahua
Jail to Juarez and released.
He had fiouted Uncle Sam up to the last moment
Of federation. He had played upon the obvious de-
sire of the administration TO avoid any clash With
Mexican authority no matter how fictitious that auth
ority might be.
A few months ago German diplomacy was irought
face to face with break in relations with the United
States upoH the submarine issue. For year Berlin
la avoided definite statement The Interchange Of
notes had produced nothing tangible for Uncle Sam
il the way of redress. One supposed promise OF
z,neloration made through Ambassador Won Bern
storf had turned out to be either unauthorized or
afterward repudiated by the kaisers government
The limit of federation reached, President Wilson
brought affairs to climax with note which meant
ether that Berlin must yield or relations would be
scyered
In both the Mexican and the German crisis Amer
car forbearance was tensed to the very limit OF
slrength In both instances, when President Wilson
1elivered an ultimatlrn, America won. Peace and
t;ooulatc relations were preserved with Germany,
and peace and diplomatic relations viii probably be
preserved with Mexico
Thus the American point is being carried-atter
.rasions subteffuges and exchanges numerous and
satisfactory that they are extremely irritating to the
American peope-but carried and peace maintained.
The exchanges with the Allied Powers, particularly
.fh Britain over the lawless holdup of mails at sea
|.rnish another instance of American forbearance
oenls abused This issue, like the commercial block
a issue has been largely lost sight of because the
.1knarne crisis touched American lives instead OF
but II is an issue on which the administration
pressing with steadily increasing force, and on
which the diplomats of London continue to resort to
.rssion and part-compliance.
there is widespread protest among the American
.6bIe against diplomacy which allows national pres
lie tlus 10 be menaced There is much .dissatisfac-
.06 with the delays in securing redress, for, as in
c Lusania case is it perfectly apparent that in the
Ind We secure but redress that some OF our de-
hands are not met at all.
Whesner the majority of the american people up
hold diplomacy which preserves peace at the cost
. accepting partial redress and continual houng IS
Question the election this fall should determine
President Wilson stands for the attitude Of toera-
ton 10 the limit.
What Candidate Hughes stands for it is impossible
Iorsto say, for he has not proposed action on any
bccifc foreign issue But his first campaign utter
nee on the afternoon of his nomination, showed that
be does not stand for the Wilson course.
The issue let us hope will be ceancut SO that the
Iezire of the American people as whole may be def
n;tely expressed They know that when America
las brought an international controversy sharply to
c';nax, the American point has been won When force
VAS put behind diplomacy, the combination won. But
IS quite evident that the president urwillngly and
last resort only puts force behind his diplomacy
His is paci6st policy
Perhaps the American people as whole support
his policy The Bulletin does not think SO, but
|erhaps it is the case If Candidate Hughes declare:
.<sctly where he stands, the American people viii
have the chance to express at the baotbox the sent
Hent expressed mperfectly and inefectivey through
many other mediums during the past two years.