El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-06-12


ing Mexican editors was remarkable for the simplicity
and fIanness with which the president told these uuof
al representatives Of Mexico the motives actuatng him
ID directing the attitude OF the United states toward Mex
ico and of his hopes for the future of the American
relationship Abstanlng from journeying afar into the
ed Of rhetoric be often does in his speeches, pres
wilson told the visitors from Mexico that the United
States contemplate and has during his
contemplated any attack the sovereignty
OF Mexico, has wanted foot Of Mexican soil and
thought Of putting Mexico state Of vassa
ge BE aid dat when he United States sent an exped
non Mexico it for the purpose of helping Mexico
get nd OF man who was making it impossible for the
Mexican government TO restore peace and order and he
sharply condemned the nsinuaons, which he believes
10 have been OF German oEgn that the united states was
acrused 1V spITt of conquest The president might well
added the Withholding from Mexico of than
10000 troops, mobzed on the border IN 1916 while Per
siur Mexico, substantial proof Of the az
Srassive intentions Of the American government
Perhaps the most important feature of Mr. Wilson's
address proposal that for the Monroe Doctrine he
substituted panAuercan agreement He declared the
weakness of the Monroe Doctrine lay the fact that 1t
had been undertaken without the consent Mexico Central
America South America; that the United States had
constituted itself the big brother Of the rest of America
whether the smaller states willing not. and that
while it guaranteed the smaller American states against
agEesoHs from another continent it did not guarantee
BE added:
have repeatedly seen uneasy feeling the part
Of the Of Central and South America that self
appointed protecon might be Tor our own benefit and our
own interests and the interests of ueighb0rs
So have said let have common guarantee that al
OF us VIII sign declaration OF political independence ana
territorial integrity Let agree that If any Of U.s. the
United States Included violates the political independence
territorial integrity of any Of the Others, all the others
VIII jump hero
This might be done not by substituting new agreement
the Monroe Doctrine the president suggests, but by
adding TO Doctrine by securing the adoption
the entire document the Monroe Doctrine included by
III the American nations That should not be difficult
The Monroe Doctrine sound Its purpose protect the
weaker American states from aggression is worthy
and valid It acquires significance fresh for
existence view Of Germanys world ambitions. Germany
has long stood hostile TO the Monroe Doctrine, regarding
banner between the Lan-AmerlCan states and the
realization Germauy dream conquest through coloni
zztiou d-ezu which Germany sought to work out
practical basis by heavily coonlzing South Brazil Brazil
has keep troops in the field hold down the armed
rifle societies Of the large German population In the south
ern part Of the country.
So there Is present day evidence Of the need for the
continuance of the Monroe Doctrine. But the president
night saying there is suspicion In Latu-Amerca that
the motives Of the United States look intimately the
ou Of the southern boundary far south as the Panama
canal
Such an agreement as the president suggests namely
that nations bind themselves TO attack any nation
another would that fear and put the American
states basis Of mutual trust That would be important
applying the United States and quite much
applying of the major South American states For
ing each other with suspicion owing differences
boundary matters and of the why Argentina
has not broken with Germany and allied herself with the
United States has been that Brazil has done 10.
pa1Auerican agreement, reaffIrmng the principles
Of the Monroe Doctrine and adding the mutual protection
feature suggested by the president would eliminate the pos
sbltT OF the formation of LatinAmericau bloc such
president Ig0yen Of Argentina, has been suspected of
intending to create under the camoufage Of LatinAmer
neutrality conference The real purpose Of such
uzou far Americans have been able to learn would
lire Up the Latin countries for self protection against
the United States President Wilson's plan would afford