The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1916-10-21
MEXICO TURNED
: into AN ANARCHY
BY THE MEDDLING
POLICY OF WILSON
Government of Mexico Restored !;
Carranza Can Never Restore
y, Order.
CONTINUING DANGER THRUST
UPON AMERICAN PEOPLE
Monroe Doctrine Makes It Necessary
for United States to Pay for
Destroyed Property.
By George F. Authier.
(Special to the PiOneer)

BY George F. Authier.
Especial to the Pioneer)
Chicago, Oct. 21.-Mexico cannot
be erased from the issues of this cam
paign. 1t is theone outstanding blot
in the recent history of the country,
and must remain an element Of dan
ger to the American people for many
years to come. It is the most elo-
quent commentary on the absurd
a, claim that "Wilson kept us out of
; war" We have engaged in three
wars with Mexico as result Of the
application of the policy for which is
claimed the credit Of keeping the
country out of war" BY the appli-
cation of this policy Mexico has been
turned into anarchy, and for the very
reason that the same policy nearly
precipitated us into the European
war. It has been a policy of med
ding interference, of shuffling exc
cution, completely vitiated by the
fact clearly understood by the Mexi-
cans, that the policy would not be
backed with firmness.
Germans Withdraw.
, In the European situation the same
policy resulted in the violation of
Z neutral rights by the allied powers,
sSAnd in the Inauguration of the sub
marine campaign by Germany. That
policy invited situation from which
we we're saved only by good judg-
ment of the German government
which withdrew from a critical posi-
tion when public opinion in this
country demanded show of firmness
on the part of the American govern
ment. In Germany there was
strong and powerful government
which could silence the resentment
\ of people finding their government
m a position from which it was hu-
initiating to withdraw, and into
which it would never have entered
had it been confronted with the same
policy of f1rmness which it eventually
met.
In Mexico there is no government.
What government there was the med
ding policy of the administration ut
terly destroyed. In the minds Of the
Mexican poems who followed the lead
ership of Carranza and Villa, and
whom Secretary Of War Baker has so
.unblushingly compared with the pa
triots of Washington's army, there is
no conception of the power of the
United States; they fear, Texas, but
imagine if they could once get be-
yond Texas they could destroy the
hated gringoes. Firmness and pres
tige are the elements they respect.
They sense the absence of firmness
and rejoice in the loss of American
prestige.
Gusts Huerta.
Although declaring the Mexicans
would not be interfered with the
executive at Washington determined
to get rid of Huerta. No one has
ever entered a brief defense of HUI
/ erta, but with other Mexican leaders,
Wuerta's record compares favorably.
It is not the custom of governments
to go behind the record, and to do so
necessarily consists of direct inter-
ference. It was the business of Mex
leans to decide whether or not Huerta
should remain in power. It was not
our business, unless the American
tive interference.
, John Lind was sent to Mexico with
mission of eliminating Huerta. The
presidents policy was described as
one aimed to prevent the assumption
of power in Latin republics by viol-
ence. This appeared to be sound
policy in itself, even though it did
not square with the policy of non
interference, but the administration
Straightway contradicted itself again
in the case Of Benevides in Peru, and
of Zamor in Haiti. Death and viol-
ence attended the accession to power
of Benevides. It occurred while the
negotiations with Huerta were pend
ing, but the recognition of Bene-
vides came so swiftly that diplomats
who were watching the situation
from Mexico were dazed by it's eel
Gritty. The elimination of Huerta
was attended with the attack and oc-
cupation of Vera Cruz-the first war
the administration kept us out of.
Anarchy Reigns.
. Whatever may have been the char
( acter of Huerta, he was the one sal
walton of the Mexican situation. With
Huerta gone anarchy reigned.
Then followed more meddling in
reference in the face of the declared
policy of non-interference. Villa was
first exalted, only to find himself be-
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