Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1916-03-31
THE MEXICAN WARNING.

When the president of the United States,
matter who he is, speaks from his high office and
warns the people of America against the sinister
and INSCRIPTIONS influences that are afoot'' and
officially says, 1t is my duty to the people of
the United States that there persons all along
the border who actively engaged in originating
and giving as wide currency as they to rumors
of the most sensational and disturbing sort which
wholly unjustified by the facts as President
Wilson has, done with reference to the relations
between the United States and Mexico and the in
fuence which 'yellow'' reports would have
those relations, there is only one assumption that
is proper and logical, and that is the assumption
that conditions far beyond the ordinary prevail,
sufficient to make such warning imperative.
To assume as does the Seattle st-Intelli-
gencer, that the president proposes to shut off the
real truth to the Mexican situation is the height
of absurdity, as well as gross Misrepresentation,
spoken by newspaper politically opposed to the
president. In the first place the presidents
ing directed at sinister and INSCRIPTIONS in
f1uences," and "unverifed rumors,'' not at the
truth in the second place. no president would dare
to do what the Post Intelligencer assumes Mr..
Wilson wants to do. There are many other rea-
that could be, Commemorative all know
them-but these are sufficient to show that par
tisan hostility, partisan dislike for everything Mr.
Wilson does, prompt such Interpretation Of his
warning.
So we can rightly return, then to what we
started out with, that the conditions leading up
to that warning must be far beyond the ordinary.
It is most unusual thing for president to do; it
is 9 most dangerous thing for him to do, from the
political, governmental or any other standpoint
without more than sufficient provocation. If the
conditions were ordinary the kind that usually
accompany situations of the kind, the usual ire
sponsible, unmalicious, undersigned rumors that
gain currency in such situation, the president
would not be warranted in formally and officially
issuing warning against them. They must not
only be extraordinary, but very extraordinary,
before he could properly take the course that was
taken in this instance.
But nearly everybody who has paid any atten-
ton at all to the Mexican developments since the
latter part Of President Taft term has realized
least one thing quite clearly that through it all
have run the fnger-marks Of q determined, con-
certed consistent effort upon the part Of certain
interests, to compel intervention by the United
States. Many different methods have been used,
many scheme has been planned, to no other pur-
pose, and these form the basis for the presidents
official warning
s.The object of this traffic in falsehood is OBJ
vious It is to create intoerable friction between
the government Of the United States and the de-
facto government Of Mexico for the purpose Of
bringing about Intervention in the interest Of GER
tain American owners Of Mexican properties -
That is a very'strong statement for president
to make, unless he knows absolutely what he is
talking about. The only right assumption, there
fore, is that he does know what he is talking about
and we all should feel great satisfaction in the
fact that the president the game that is being
played and is courageous enough to expose it.