The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1919-12-11
UNCLE SAM WILL
GO IN TO MEXICO
TO GET JENKINS
Cabinet Member Declares Car
ranza Must Deliver to
Avoid Invasion
MEANS SENDING BIG ARMY
eff We Go In We Will Stay Until
Stable Government Has
Been Founded
lEANS SENDING BIG ARMY
BY HARRY 3. HUNT

Without one WOrd or adVice OF
guidance from President Wilson, who
is commander-in-chi of the army
and navy, and without consulting him
in any way on recent developments
that have brought about the present
crisis with Mexico, the presidents
cabinet has determined upon policy
which, its members admit, stand
probably better> than an even chance
of sending soldiers and sailors against
that country ITO clear it up" '
The cabinet already has decided
upon the program to be followed in
case Mexico refuses our request for
the release of William O. Jenkins,
consular agent at Puebla
If Carranza sends back word that
Jenkins cannot be released one
member of the cabinet said today,
when asked what the next step would
be in that event, "we Will simply say:
All right, then We'll come and get
him.
Means Sending In Armed U. s.,Force.
"That means going into Mexico
with an armed force and the creation
of a state Of war.
''The cabinet, of course, will work
in sympathy with the indicated SEN
timent in congress; but it is not like
ly congress would be asked to declare
war i.
'If we 60 in we will not come out
again until the government of Mexico
is established on sufficiently secure
basis to make future peaceable rela.
tions probable. We went in twice and
| came out again without accomplishing
anything definite; once, when the
navy and marines went in at Vera
Cruz, and again when Persh:ng went
! over the border after Villa.
"lf we go in now we will stay. till
the job is done. We viii go in ]
should say, much as we went it Cuba
to set up a stable, effective govern
ment for the benefit, not only Of our,
selves and other governments that
must do business with Mexico, but for
the peace, prosperity and well being
Of the Mexican people themselves
When that is done, as in Cuba, we
viii WithdraW:'7.s'sss ss %tf y ,-'.s-.s-. >-'s
This cabinet member. protesting
that he is in no sense an interven
tionst, and that he still hopes Carran
"a may make it possible for us not to
intervene with arms, says, however
that the cabinet is unit in agreeing
that the limit of "Watchful waiting
| has been reached.
There are no new forces working
today for intervention" he said. "rhe
situation, is simply that our relations
with Mexico have been kept an open
sore by constant irritation deliberate
ly applied by the CarranZa govern.
ment. > If we intervene, the reason
will not lie in the influence Of Amer
leans who have gambled in Mexican
investment and who now want Uncle
Sam to secure for their mine and oil
lands value many times what they
paid for them.
'Thc reason will be CarranZa him
self. '.... y
"Americans who bought property
in Mexico at ridicuously low prices
only made possible by the fact that
there was no secure government
there, have no legitimate right to ask
this government to make their in
vestment profitable"
| What United States Has Right tc
Expect. y
| "Eut this government as a govern
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