Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-03-02
FRIDAY, r 2, 1917.


Tor nerve. We roihiutHu tue utTHuaH DrdlH
that conceived. pnd the German executive
that put into words the proposition to
Mexico apd japan to enter into an alliance
with Gcrpanr FOR the purpose of making
war on tie uhiki States
Wheih@r tho ns;and Empire of the Orient
ccnld or Mould be induced TO turn against
its present aBiapce with G~ermany's enemies
20 join Germany is matter of conjecture.
The Her5id eorleetures that Japan would
not be likely 10 act in bad faith with its
cnferte dies. Tho mikado hardly would
sacrificed The dignity of his country by
such a sdmersar:t, unless he could manage
IT, find fcme very plausible grounds for
doing s0.s lie certainly would not be like
" 10 fcrtaks allies that nave proven such
good customers Jas the entente allies in the
pureharel Ut Japanese guns and ammnni-
lion. .idpan already has obtained about
a. much fn the Orient also, in the capture
Of a ridh province in China from Ger
RAINY, cuts ~ the Great War, as she could
expect I'd gain from an alliance with that
country III this stage. True, Japan may
be- su.nsfet TO have coveious eyes upon
America's island possessions in the Pacific.
There are many who have affected to be-
believe for long that the little brown men
Of the Ftpwery Kingdom have sinister de-
signs. AGAINST the United States, if they
ever erpx. stFpng enough and have the OPP
p~ortun4 But, Japan Is wise enough to
know IN Germany could never make good
the offersmade at this time. Japan j. wise
enough q know thai If she should 90 over
10 Germany's side at this juncture, there
would b4 eventually a reckoning, not only
with the. United States, but with China'
with Iftxsia, with Korea-a reckoning
that wotad 4ke from her whatever adj
v~antagfss shean dream of obtaining. aS
Germahys afy, and canse her TO lo~eanli
the ground slfe has gained in recent yeArS
As 10 Mexico. The Herald believes $hal
General tarrxAza is entirely too intelligert
10 permit his country to he drawn into the
European war On either side, if il can ne
avoided. Mexico has her own hands full
iu.t now reconsiructing her fortunes, after
the var;oas revolutions that have land the
country Utmost in ruins during the past
few scafs. Mexico j. engaged IN the work
al erecting n stable government ~ Inc place
Of the eHaos left since the fall OF Porfirio
D;az. Cegranza is q greater statesman
perhaTk than Emperor William and his adj
visers imagine. Carranza would never ~
% foolish rs 10 listen To such proposals az
those c9s.red BY Mein Herr Zimmerman
Ii MAJ tound tempting to men sneh a Gen-
eraI Nafnrrate and 10 the deluded follow
ers Of he fareical "Plan Of San Diego
70 be ltdd that Germany would carve .
slice az the United States, to include Tex
as New Mexico and Arizona, and run
a over tb Mvsieo n her reward for JON
ING M Alliance with Germany and Japan
Hut "a he brainy. level-headed Mexican
statesmen and generals who are bend'n9
their Utmost efhorts to the building OF I
nev an constitutional government fol
she;r @1uirA, Germany's plan will soun'
~ s;.iTY IT, plan Of San Diego" No
!. il 70 T. h.latyed that the constitutional
,sts On Afexffb Gould so easily forget tn
service. 1hich the United States has givei
In their Hause, first in forcing Huerta int
exiIe. and then imprisonIng him to pre-
vent hid retsrn 10 Mexico to start a ne'
revolu6on there. and again in forcing Vii;
n flee into hiding, to die a fugitive fron
his rofefnment a. well a. from ours. Gar
ranza icannor forget how the United State
hcsped hi cause by refusing to recognize
urrr.a whom Germany recognized, how
.xn- ar that the United States was tn
a., 10Y rnment to recognize tarranz'
hisS.H
II Il ensy to believe that Germany ha
l.v seheming for long to bring abou
,r,pble between Mexico and the unlte'
states. hoping therebysto stop further ex
,crsss;ua Of arms and ammunition iron
M. ronniry to England and also to Gu
IN E~nsland's supply Of fuel oil in Mexico
4. faef. il j. suspected that GermaI
.ser, Mere at the bottom of the raid o.
coIunLns aud other bandit border raids
I, ! ,so-t likely true that Herman none
tna.red the so-called bandit troubles o
sh;s very border. Huerta j. SAID to hay
a,ea with his pockets filled wlth Germal
GELD. And Husrta came to America a