The Cordova daily times., 1919-06-06
MEXICAN PROBLEM LOOMS
 AGAIN

Having denied Europe the right to interfere with our Monroe doctrine and Europe, as represented by our allies, having agreed not to insist on the abrogation of regional understand 1ngs," what are we to do about Mexico.
 Mexico has repudiated the Monroe doctrine and it not amenable to the league of nations, which he recently refused to join. True, the revised version of the league covenant gives the league the last word on the Mon roe doctrine and it may be that Europe will yet step in to regulate anarchistic Mexico if we do not.
 Europe was none too well satisfied with Wilson's policy of "watchful waiting" in the days before the Euro pean war. Germany, it will be re- membered, tried to arrange Euro pan combine which should undertake to restore law and order in Mexico in defiance of the Monroe doctrine.
 Conditions have continued to grow worse under Carranzas rule and the chances are that an acute crisis will be reached as soon as peace has been formally proclaimed in Europe Mexi- ico owes millions to our friends and allies in Europe and they have numer- ous claims for damages to property and for subjects slain. As matter of course these claims will be pressed sooner or later and the United States, because of it's adherence to the Mon roe doctrine, will be involved.
 The Mexican government is less able to meet it's obligations than it was when the President adopted policy of 'watchful waiting" Villa or his alter ago recently seized Parral, numbering the mayor and his two sons. A Red Cross report at Wash ington tells of 100000 bandits and thieves let loose rotten with disease and divorced from all ideas of ever working again. The streets in Mexico City are declared by competent ob- servers to be unsafe for pedestrians . after 8 o'clock in the evening" A con- servative estimate has it that 10000 have starved in Mexico in the last four years. The total equals the number of deaths in the French revo- lution from the fall of the Bastile to the beheading of Robespierre.
 Mexico is queer combination of militarism and Bolshevism. Before Russia fell into the clutch of Lenine and Trotzky the Mexican people were which has cursed Russia in the last two years. The Reorganization and disintegration has followed much the same course. In both countries the destruction of industries has prevent ed hundreds of thousands from earn ing living. In Russia the poor have joined Lenine's guard and have preyed upon the rest of the people. In Mexico the poor, unable to work for wages be- cause no work was to be had, joined the Villistas or other bodies of bandits.
 In both countries cunning leaders live by plunder and graft. The mili- tarists who keep Carranza in power vie with one another to make Mexico City howl with their orgies.
 Mexico's credit is destroyed; not a cent can be borrowed in foreign lands to pave the way for reconstruction; Carranza has not kept his pledges to protect lives and property; aliens are being robbed and slain as in the worst days of anarchy before the European conflict.
 The American government must be prepared once again to face the Mexi- can problem. The American people must once again inform themselves as to conditions beyond the Rio Grande, must be ready to face crisis as acute as any that has yet arisen and must reach decision which shall be final.