The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1919-09-20

field service. And so it goes Every
branch of the general staff is active to the
same end.
What it all means is known only to the
President and the Secretary of War. They
are authorizing the expenditures of the
millions that are being added to our
Watchful Waiting account A few years
ago such apparently portentous develop
ments would have alarmed us, to say the
least, but it is rather difficult to get al
armed now over the international cancer,
considering past experience.
Maybe it is all the basis of little bluff
that is expected to have tremendous eff
feet upon CarranZa when troops in large
numbers are modified and malIhed up
and down the border. Or ma be VIXEN
General Pershing returns the President
intends to request him to start after Villa
again; or maybe it means real business.
While it is futile to attempt to forecast
the result, it would be interesting, never
thelesS, to know just what prompted the
mobilization at this time. Conditions are
no worse now than they have been for the
last few years, although Of course the
truth has recently been filtering across
the border, and the country has begun to
see through the camouflage that the
White House and the State Department
have maintained so successfully. If we
had only one guess, it would be that the
President decided to get ready for action
when Senator Lodge appointed Seuatoc
Fall, Senator Brandegee and Senator
Marcus A. Smith to make an investiga.
ton into the Mexican situation. Because
of course, the President knows that these
gentlemen cannot be humbugged, and he
knows also that when they begin to UNI
cover the truth, the country will be j,
shocked at the crime, that has been com,
mitted not only against our own people
but against the decent Mexicans as well,
rssubjecting them to the operations of
ruthless 'banditry which his adIninistra- g.
ton was solely responsible for placing in
power.
And there is the little matter of pitiless
publicity that must be accounted for
When the truth finally energies, a great
many people who have accepted state
ments inspired from Washington will no
doubt demand an accounting from the
authors.
Of course all this represents merely
guess concerning the reasons that caused
our great military activities at this time.
We may be altogether wrong. Probably
the President wants the truth to come out
and probably he has no intention of blank
citing the record by making great show
of military activity Meanwhile, Carran-
za's term is about to expire, and unless
all information is in error, he will get out
or be kicked out by some other worth
patriot of similar type.
In this connection, we have been in
formed, in a roundabout manner, that
General Pablo Gonzalez has dispatched
commission to Washington to plead his
cause as the ideal rejuvenator of Mexico.
The commission, we are informed, is COM
posed of an American named Simpson
rhe Generals Attorney, Mendivil and
Frezieres, formerly Mexican Consul Cen
eral at San Antonio. These gentlemen
are well supplied with money Just why
a candidate for the Presidency of Mexico
where suffrage is supposed to be effective
should open campaign headquarters in
Washington, is phase of international
politics which we cannot fathom.
A good deal will probably be heard of
the virtues of General Gonzalez within
the next few months. For the present,
| it's sufficient to state that before he be-
came general" in the army of the Mex
lean uplifters he was an impecunious mil
ler and today his income is assessed on
valuation of S10,000,000. At present,
we have not the space in which to present
the detailed statement of this remarkable
| financial activities during his military car
eer We shall do so later,-Harveys
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