Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-12

nRESIDENT WILSON evidently
goes upon the theory that the
people soon forget. In his De-
troit speech this week he gave express
sion to this sentiment regarding Mex
leo:
The way to establish our sover-
eighty is to respect hers.
The President explained that he be-
lieves in the old Virginia bill of rights
which declared that a country may do
as it pleases with its own government.
This information, the President said,
was for those gentlemen who would
butt in"
This from the lips of one who de-
lberately set about in assuming the
duties of his high office to interfere
with the government of a friendly
country! On this point the New York
Sun says:
We wonder how many millions of
American citizens have forgotten a
certain fine passage in Mr.. Wilson's
first annual communication to Con-
gTess. We refer to that part of the
message of 1918 wherein the Presi-
dent announced his intention to
rest rest not, not and an sleep not and Telent
facto Government in Mexico and
driven into exile the hated Huerta
together with, his exasperatingly
sarcastic and irritating Secretary
for Foreign Affairs) and rear
ranged the internal affairs of the
neighboring republic according to
his own ideas of what was good for
Mexico.
If the President imagines that he
can deceive the people with fine words
he is greatly mistaken, Whatever
the conditions on the Mexican border
now it must be remembered that the
President deliberately set about and f.
nally accomplished the overthrow of
the Huerta government and then ad-
dressed Congress on the subject in
an effort to justify his course. He
didn't believe that Huerta could estab-
lish a stable government, that even
If he succeeded his power would be
respect and moral support of those
who were at one time willing to see
him succeed, etc, etc.
This was the apology for butting-
in" observes the Sun. president
Wilson interviewed in the internal af-
fairs of Mexico, not to protect the lives
and property of Americans there, as
was his duty, but to aid one faction
in civil strife against another faction
headed by man whom he perhaps
hated because he thought that man
had insulted him and derided him
1t was not the duty of the President
of the United States to do this thing.
The power of the United States was
employed by Mr.. Wilson to drive
Huerta out, to destroy the only power
in Mexico which was able to protect
either our own citizens or the citizens
and subjects of European nations. The
President of the United States un-
dertook to pass upon the validity of
General Huertas title under Mexi-
can law. He butted-in with his own
judgments, with his own private no.
tions of his duty to humanity, with
his own diplomatic emissaries uncon-
firmed by the Senate, with the armed
forces of this country, with the SOL
diers and sailors of the United States
who lost their lives under the flag
that was thus misused by their Com
mander-in-Chief. Huerta was de-
stroyed, and the personal hatred that
appears in the foregoing paragraphs
from the message of 1918 was graft
fed; and the results of that butting-in
are known to everybody"
Some butter-in is our President and
some singer of inconsistent English.
Words and words and-nerve.