The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1919-07-01


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OPEN DIPLOMACY WITH MEXICO?
1t is to be hoped the Illinois legislature
will pass the resolution calling upon the
federal government for vigorous policy
of projections for Americans on the Dor
der. 1t should be broadened to include
demand for reinforcement OF MeMco's
international responsibilities.
We believe we are not far wrong IN as
Stunning that such legislative action would
be followed by similar demands from 9th
er legislatures; and that such demands
are strongly suggestive of gathering
form of protest against the intolerable
situation which we are permitting Ameri-
can citizens to face without protection.
The events of the last few days should
open the eyes of Americans to something
akin to truth that the trouble is not spe-
officially with the bandit raids and massa-
cres but with Carranza. Carranza lurKs
in the background-loo there rather
the mystic, close diplomacy sheltered
autocratic, implacable foe of all Ameri-
cans. Villa comes to attack Carranza-
Americn troops intervene, save Carran-
"a, and drive Villas soldiers to the inter
Tor. Does CarranZa thank the admins
tration for thus preserving his author.
ity? Not so. He protests like some sub
lime sultan that his sovereignty" has
been offended.
Is it any wonder, that Americans are.
esking what all this has to do with the
protection of American lives?
What Americans are in danger on the
border, does Carranze protect thenlY
Vain imagining. Carranzas army could
not protect itself What spectacle!
Carranza, the Sovereign authority In
Mexico protected from onslaught by the
very people he should have protected and
protesting because he was so protected!
Does it follow that CarranZa hates Villa
when he hastens to wrap his voluminous
mantle about him? F%A
Carranza's protest opens the inquiry.
To Senator Fall we are indebted for some
very material facts; that Secretary Lam
sing induced the suppression of an Asso-
ciated Press dispatch reporting atrocities
instigated by Germans in May, 1917, that
American consular reports TEEN with ac-
counts of killings of Americans; that an
American consul in Mexico, failing to get
hiileIlCdH Iltlp, Was COilpcilcu w Cali up
on British naval vessel; and that the
Wilson administration has accepted the
Mexican doctrine that the government is
not responsible for damages occasioned
by revolutionary outbreaks.
These are some truths. Far from the
"open diplomacy" so asiduously pro-
claimed by Mr.. Wilson, we have had moth
ing but policy of suppression broken
only by such leaks as were forced by the
violence of periodical eruprions.
Carranza by the grace of the American
people! And conniving at the destruc.
A'Nn of American life and property under
the cover of secret diplomacy. We may
view with more or less complacency the
disappearance in Paris of "open coven-
ants openly arrived at" but eomplacency
fades INTO serious protest when the lives
and property of Americans are at stake.
When is the truth about Mexico to be
revealed; and when are we to begin pro-
tecting Americans; not only against Viii
la, but also against the autocratic clique
which protects Villa--whose present
chief is Carranza chicago Tribune.
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