The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1916-04-06
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in any measurable extent as stated
nv the President OF the United
States. the Congress Of the United
| States is derelict to the utmost de-
gree that It has not proceeded weeks
ago to meet this situation, which
/ hight be imposed upon us in fort
! night? What could II do to meet a
situation which might be imposed
upon us even in six months at the
rate at which we are moving? II
will take weeks and possibly months
to pass real effective preparedness
bills. | repeat that If we would DO
our full duty to the situation, we
/ would close congress to the other al
fairs and give senators and represen-
tatives an opportunity to be in atten'
dance upon these committees night
and morning, day after day, until
these bills are shaped and passed.
President Wilson has done pretty
badly about Mexico. 1t Is his course
there. more than anything else, that
gave rise and justification to the jibe
| which Is passed from mouth to mouth
as a description of the new Wilson
dance; One step forward, one step
backward, hesitate, side step. The
administration started in wrong. The
nonrecognition OF Huerta-so called
was really Intervention, although 1t
was loudly proclaimed as noninter-
vention. It was an affirmative act,
although the word sounds like a neg
alive act. When a new president OF
the United States takes office he
does not call the roll of all the ma
tons. He does not call out: Argen-
tina, let me see your credentials!
Brazil Chile! and so on. That is
not the process. De facto govern
ments are recognized automatically
as such. To announce no recognition
OF any one government Is going
out OF the way. 1t is an act OF inter-
vention. It entails responsibility and
consequence President Wilson, how
ever, has never acknowledged his
responsibility and his whole career
with respect to Mexico has been an
effort to dodge the consequences or
compromise with them. There are
some pretty bad things in the record.
Probably the worst was the encour-
agement given to villa about two
years ago. Wilson needed villa then
to pound Huerta. and so villa was
taken to the Democratic bosom as a
new and heroic Toussaint TOuver-
ture.
The embargo on arms and ammuni-
ton was lifted SO that villa should
have plenty, and the very guns and
bullets which he is using against
American soldiers today are those
which Wilson. for purposes of his
own, allowed him to have. At that
time the administration organs that
reflect the White House or stimulate
1t. were describing Villa as second
Washington.
1t will make a pretty mawkish
reading IL the Republicans in the
coming campaign dig up the things
that the friends of Mr.. Wilson and
the Democratic organs were saying
about Villa not so many months ago.
The present episode, even with villa
caught, won't end our Mexican trou.
BILE. Carranza cannot keep his seat,
except with the support OF the Unit
ed States, and the support OF the Uni.
ted States is Intervention, although,
President Wilson is not likely to
admit 1t. The administration Is In
the position of man who IL respon-
sible for an act and Is carrying 1t
out, at the same time not liking 1t
and disavowing 1t. Such a situation
handled by man in such mood
does not commonly go forward very
happily.
The main difference between villa
and the German naval officer who
sank the Lusitania is that the form.
err took more of chance and com
mtted more ordinary crime Both
murdered peaceful American citizens
who were living within their rights,
but Bryan, Hearst. and the hyphen;.t.
es are all able to view the massacre
at Columbus. n. M, free from any
complications of self interest, for
eign policy, Or petty politics. The
executive will probably have the en-
tire backing of Congress in seeing
the matter through.
Both OF these outrages seem to
have been deliberately planned and
ordered for the ends OF their respec-
tive perpetrators, and the main diff.
ference is that the latter one can.
not be handled by diplomacy alone.
Villa had been a border problem for
over year, but the administration
at Washington appears to have had
I NO tnInrgtanAtn.