The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1919-08-21
CARRANZA MUST GO

NOW that our 1TeSlutllJ 10 WIN AS
again, may we venture to hope that the
unspeakable conditions in Mexico Will re-
ceive some practical attention in Wash
ington? Everyone knows that Mexico is
given over to anarchy, murder, robbery,
arson and other crimes of violence, and
that its so-called government" has Meth
er the power nor the will to protect its
own citizens nor foreigners within its
boundaries Henry P Fletcher, Ameri-
can Ambassador to Mexico, testified be-
fore the Rules committee of the House
of Representatives that fifty American
citizens have been murdered in Mexico
during the past three years, and not one
murderer has been punished. The re-
cent killing Of the American rancher
Correll and the outrage of his wife have
stirred public opinion in the United
States to realization of the conditions
that have prevailed in Mexico for the past
seven years and which are now worse
than at any previous time.
For seven years the United States gov
eminent has been trying to deal diplo-
matically with the succession of rascally
dictators, and at every turn has been de-
ceived, cheated and outraged. American
citizens attempting to carry on legitim-
ate enterprises within the boundaries Of
Mexico have been robbed, insulted and
murdered, and American citizens, engag-
ed in peaceful pursuits on their own side
of the border, have been subjected to SIM
liar indignities and outrages by Mexican
invaders of the soil of the United States.
We agree with Representative La Guar
dia that the time has come to demand
settlement
If the reign of bloodshed and violence
were benefitting any worthy part OF the
Mexican people, or if by any stretch OF
the imagination it could be predicated
that these conditions would ultimately
benefit the Mexican people, there might
be some excuse for further exercise OF
patience with Carranza, but every one
who knows anything of Mexico knows
that the only class of society profiting
under his rule is small military oligar-
chy, numbering less, perhaps, than one
tenth of one per cent of the population.
This infinitesmal minority keeps under
its control by force, or by an appeal to
the vilest mercenary passtime, some 3d.
600 or $4,000 so-called soldiers" recruit
ed from the very lowest strata of Mexi-
can society, by means of which it terror
ICES the great majority of peaceful inof-
fensive Mexican people, and carries out
its schemes of plumber and spoilation
against the persons and property of for
eigners.
The Carranza government must go. 1t
is vile, tyrannical dishonest and it has not
redeemed single one of its promises, but
on the contrary has consistently, from the
beginning of its power to the present time
pursued cynical, mercenary policy that
is perhaps without equal in the whole sor-
did and bloody record of Latin-American
politics Venustiano Carranza is the
greatest calamity that has ever fallen on
Mexico and he was inflicted on that coun-
try,by the United States of'America, with
out whose support he could not by any
chance have come into power 1t is pre-
posterous for the Administration at
Washington to continue to support his
regime.
A frank confession that he backed the
wrong man is the only honest course OBJ
en- for President Wilson. Following such
q confession, there are two possible meth
DDS Of action: First, the recognition of
the belligerency of the revolutionary for
ces under the command of General Diaz
with such support as we could give with
out departing from policy of neutrality.
When their arms triumph as they surely