Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-06-19
Mexico.

our Mexican difficulties will quickly
disappear, our Mexican problem will
solve itself.
The basis of national humiliation in
our dealings with Mexico has been the
Mexican contempt for our vacillations
in mind and will and our imagined
physical impotency to enforce our will
if We had any.
Mexican contempt for us was rooted
in our shilly-shallying policy, as eX-
hibited for example in making little
war of invasion at Vera Cruz to Sc
cure reparation and ending the war
without that PREPARATION; in making a
petty war of invasion to get Villa and
ending the war with Villa uncaught
and finally the tasco as Il demOnstra-
ton of military power and efficiency
of our mobilization on the Mexican
border.
The world war has brought to the
United States no territorial annexa-
tions, no money indemnities. In their
stead We have won world recognition
of and respect for our vast potential
military power, as we'll as our altruism
as champion of the principle of world
democracy.
The world has learned that when the
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call to arms is sounded Americans re-
spond promptly and vigorously as vol
unteers and submit unhesitatingly to
CONSUMPTION as selectives under draft.
Our two million soldiers, trained,
equipped and sent to France; our four
teen million registrants. constitut-
ing our reserve army; the achieve
ments of our soldiers under the severe
tests of modern warfare-aH teach the
same lesson.
We have the resources to sustain
world war; We have the soldiers and
sailors to fight; and they can and will
fight. They have fought with high
credit by the side of and against the
best of the trained and experienced
soldiers that the great war has devel-
oped.
The worlds Notwithstanding the
Mexican doubts-of the nations mill
tary power and of the American sol
diers' efficiency have been dissipated.
Our neighbors to the south (including
Mexieo), who have suspected US of
desiring to conquer and annex them,
but have thought us impOtent to do
so, have learned that they are wrong
on both points. We have more power
to conquer than they thought, and VIC
have no lust of conquest.
Nothing in respect to Mexico is GER
tain until the world war is unmistak-
ably ended. After it is over nothing
is more certain than that Mexican at
fairs Will be wholesomely and sanely
and justly settled. There should be
no more need of actual fighting in
1919 or 1920 than there was in clear
ing European army and a Euro
pean emperor out of Mexico after the
civil war. When our armies ceased
fighting one another and all American
soldiers were available against a for
eign enemy, mere word of warning
from this nation sent the European
army out of Mexico and drove the
European empire of Mexico to its fall
The foreign influence which has kept
Mexico hostile and hurtful in its re-
lations to US, and has made of her a
daifges-spr. E-zlsce, must be exercised
and .1:SeL CIT, just as like influence
in different shape was expelled in
1861.
Tifs nation does not covet Mexican
territoe. &ut it will not tolerate the
Intervention of a hostile country, the
hotbed of foreign conspiracy against
it, between .he main United States and
the Panama canal section of the
United States, the vital connecting
link between our Atlantic and Pacific
Eaters.
From the Rio Grande TO the Cana
Zone we mutt have no national enemy
but friendl, and closely affiliated
neighbors.
Americans VIZ tolerate no ending OF
the war which interferes with this re
suit. Even our league of nations to b.
acceptable must be so constituted a,
not to deprive us of the power to at
tain this end. We must not be for
hidden to fight if necessary, for wha
vitality concerns us at home, and b.
compelled to fight abroad to prevent
others from fighting in the wrangle.
Of Europe, Asia and Africa.
That undeniabls luxury, the beef