Norwich bulletin., 1919-10-09


 government and fellow countrymen
 had been subjected to indignity and
 outrage. Every American citizen. MT. Cham berlafn1 asserted. is vitally con-
 l cerned in the "intoIerable' conditions
 i which have existed in Mexico the past
 eight years if he does not wish to see
 the American conception of justice, l allegiance and patriotism made a laughing-s stock of the world.'
 One other ctrcum stance that caused l him to resign. he said. was Ambassa- dor Fletchers recent haling before the senatorial committed" which he l characterized as both unfair and ab- surd' He said it was like putting the l ambassador to Mexico lon tightrope ] with a bucket of water in each hand" ] MT. Fletcher, he said, came through 1 the ordeal we'll only because he is a
 finished diplomat and because of the i indulgence of his questioners."
 If the first question hadabeen said MT. Chamberlain. t' Can yon name one government toward ours during your ] two years in Mexico City?' and had ! been followed by Can you recall five i gross breaches of international cour-: ! tesy in the same period?' the cross -ex-
 amina ton would have come to a sud
 den close or everybody would have had l a bath"
 The former consul general explained l that by Friendly q nd unfriendlYS acts | on the part of the Mexican government l he did not mean casual actions arising | from racial antipathy but systematic | policy of arrangement He charged | that efforts were being made by the 1 Carranza administration to capitalize | hatred against the United States and | that this included distortion of friendly | American motives, the suppression Of | facts by news censorship, the expulsion 1 of patriotic Americans who had lived | in Mexico as long as 50 years, and the | "extraordinacy breach of international l courtesy in publishing an unanswered l diplomatic note with the deliberate | intention of counteracting President | Wilson's speech made to visiting Mex l ican newspapermen. The present re- | zine, he said, was endeavoring to
 ''oounteract at all costs any sym otons 1 of good will toward the United 1 States
 MT. Chamberlain insisted that condi- tions in Mexico were worse than the news reports indicate" He cited the i cqea of train carving so leading | citizens of Mexico being held up bv | la ndits in the suburbs of Pueb1a. the 1 irdustrial capita1 of the country. of 1 tho coa ches being burned ard tho o"st | cd occuoauts. men women ard chif- | dre,, driven like "a tile for 4n miles" | bv tEe -obhers ard then t1rre1 loose | t0 warde- i1 delirfIs 10 thei- t'oT''es. ] Tro told of anothA~ holduD on the c''t- l eIzf-+e o< revfoo Citv where nro-7 ir-e~t ] rr1n- with ttes- wives i, a-1 a1rton7 chile | ra--+v ---n-e --o1,ra1 o-,1 trei- charffeure l ea-- =-t0 +~--- to N~.r~ back ransom | ~T ~7on er~ ~- -~o-nNe- of the party l he@--o +1~~-- ---~-~ -oro~eod
 While chaotic conditions obtain in l Mexico. MT. Chamberlain said, he was ! Of the opinion that the situation was not hopeless- He said he had a possi- hie solution" to the problem but that 1t would not ''countenance the backing bE the United States of any of the , dominant class in Mexico, for that , class is universally corrupt I hold i brief not for any special interest" he | f-- A ATa7A | murdered or despoiled in Mexico nor | for the millions who starve under l perennial oppression, but for the right 1 that lies in every man to revolt against l outrage wherever he finds it."
 The former consul general would not i say what his solution is other than ! to say that it embodied the idea of the ] nited States sending Mexico ''an u1ti- 1 n1atum without recourse to arms" and 1 that in it lay the possibility of estab- | fishing once of all such conditions as 1 exist in Cuba and the Philippines" He | declared that the La tin 'incrusttation" 1 had been the "damnation of Meyico.' | that Ove~ an over again 2 O0n 900 or 1 4-00O roo Iati0S had used the ignorant populace Cf 3 900 900 Indians in a sort l of ~a~le If lea nfrog to vault from the ] hN'-t hack If the peon into the saddle 1 of government
 l We are at grips with past masters | in the Turkish art of procra situation" l said Mr. Chamberlain. Left to them selves, the present Mexican authorities ! will no more than they have during | the past two years take a step toward | a rapDTochment with the United States ! nor will they stop the murder of Amer ] lcan citizens nor relinquish stran- sll1G grip on foreign owned properties nor subjugate completely the innumer- able bands of outlaws which almost daily give the lie to government claims of modification"
 The present government has tried to esta blish a popular illusion that it stands by Madero's a1truistic princi- pies Nothing could be further from the truth. Madero never had a chance
 t1 institute any factor of government
 Wha;over During his brief tenure Of
 power he was the most bewildered and
 ir.elItctual mortal on earth The pres
 ent rulers of his unhappy country
 I1Lve prOfted by his ineptitude only
 tC the extent of holding up his inoper-
 atiVe doSmas a g a screen to a govern
 nent that stands by the grace of ban
 d5;ry. pillage, interna tiona1 affronts
 rare hatred and the mai ior tenets of
 Bolshevism. At it's heart is eating the
 same cancer that has brought death to
 every ore of its long line of predeces
 sors- graf. On such scale as is beyond
 Inc conception of the Anglo Saxon