Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-02-16
CITY BANK CLEARI\GS.
esterdaN
S4G,l49.i3.

in revenues, and steady increase in
imports and expenditures" Enterprise
had halted, he asserted, and new un-
dertakngs no longer made their ap.
pearance, and the country's produc-
tive industries 'wer6 ahoring unde.
misfit tariff devised by the demo
| cratic party in a spirit OF suspicion
distrust and hostility towards Ameri-
can business enterprise and trans
portation and commerce hahe become
dun and despondent." The tariff com
! mission created under republican les
islation to ascertain the facts upor
which tariff laws should be based
Mr. Root said, had been driven out oi
! business and no substitute provided
! At WASHINGTON, he declared, "ther
was a nervous dread lest somebody
make money" ana envy Of business
success was an element in the franz
ing Of legislation and the admins
tration Of the laws alr Poet con
tinued:
! The great war mas not changed
the lesson which We had already
learned when it began. 1t has but
obscured further demonstration. II
has caused an enormous demand for
some things which the United states
is able 10 produce in large quantities,
and in these lines of production,
while other industries still languisa,
there have been extensive employ
ment Of labor, great exports and q
great influx of money. But this Is
temporary. it must soon cease. and
when the factories have stopped and
their laborers are no longer employ
ed we must deal with situation for
which wise forethought should make
provision.
More important still, the war has
paralyzed the peaceful industries Of
all Europe, and has stopped that COM
petitive foreign production which in
July, 1914. had already entered Am
erican markets to supersede Ameri-
/ can products under the tariff law oi
1913. The war has thus given tc
! American products an immunity from
/ competition far more effective thar
any possible protective tariff. Bui
that is temporary, and when the wal
I is over, when foreign production be-
gins again. the American market
compared with impoverished Europe
/ will be more than ever before tht
! object of desire and effort, and w
shall become the dumping ground oi
the worldA to the destruction Of oui
own industries unless that IS prevent
ed by n wise ana competent govern
ment"
Taking up foreign relations, MIR
Root said that for the first time With
in the memory Of men now living
these relations "are recognized as Vi
tai. He took up first the Mexican
problem, reviewing the situation when
President Wilson was inaugurated.
His duty then was plain Mr
Root declared 1T was, first to use
his powers as president, to secure
protection for the lives and property
of Americans in Mexico and to re-
auire that the rules of law and stipu-
latfons Of treaties should be obserV-
ed by Mexico towards the United
States and its citizens His duty was
second, as the head of a foreign pow
er to respect the independence OF
Mexico, to refrain from all interfer'
ence with her internal affairs, from
all attempt at domination except rs
he was justified by the law of nations
for the protection of American
rights.
"The president Of the United States
failed to observe either Of those du-
ties. He deliberately abandoned
them both and followed an entirely
different ana inconsistent purpose
/ He intcrvened in Mexico to aid one
faction in civil strife against another
He undertook to pull down Huerta
and set Carranza uD II his pace
and set Carran2a up in his place
ed TO be constitutional president OF
Mexico. He certainly was the d.
facto president Of Mexico. Rightly ol
wrongly. good or bad, he was there.
/ Mr.. Root rviewed our subsequent
relations with Mexico, declaring tha'
the United States "intervened IN MeAl-
60 to control the internal affairs bS
threat, by economic pressure, ana pS
force Of arms" and that the American
government iignored, condoned, the
murder OF American men and the
rape Of American women and the de-
struction of American property and in
suit to American officers ana dellle'
ment of the American flag and joined
itself 10 the men who We're guilty OF
all these things to pull down the pow
er of Huerta."
"The results Of this Inference We're
inost unfortunate" Mr. Root contin-
med IF our government had sent ar
armed force into Mexico to protect
American life and honor we might
have been opposed but We would have
been understood and respected by The
people of Mexico, because they woulc
have ealized that we were acting
within our international rights and
perfoI ming a nations duty for the
profe ,tios1 Of its own people but wher
The president sent an armed force int
Mexico to determine the Mexican pres
lideutial succession he created resent
ment and distrust Of motives among
all classes and sections Of the Mexican
people.
with the occupation Of Vera Cruz
the moral power of the United State'
ljH Mexico ended We werS then anC
~~~~-~~-~-r~~~~-
Continued on Page siS)