The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-08-27
United States Will Control
That Country as Complete
i ly as It Did Cuba
=
ESTIMATED IT WILL
COME IN SIX MONTHS
NO other Solution of the Mexican Dis
organization in Sight-Arrangements
to Use Land and Sea Forces Already
Made.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 27-Although
the policy of the United States govern
ment toward Carranza is officially de-
seribed as unchanged and although the
incident of the capture and release of
the two American aviators virtually is
closed, 1T may be stated positively that
developments of the first magnitude
are soon to take place south of the Rio
Grande. Information which has been
slowly but surely accumulating for the
United States as well as other govern
ments indicates that the. following
events, reluctantly or otherwise. must
be regarded as inescapable
First the United States must inter-
vene IN Mexico and take over the af-
falrs OF the Mexicans as completely as
| it did in the ease of Cuba.
Second. the fact of coming interyen-
| ton is now recognized and the time set
| is being estimated at six months or
| even less, though this latter is admit
| tediy an uncertain factor.
| Third, the reason for intervention is
| not because of Carranza's arrogance or
| bandit raids or sporadic eases of in
frlngement of American rights. but be-
| cause the country has simply gone 10
| pieces beyond recall and no other pos.
| sible solution looms up.
/ Arrangements for the initial use of
both land and sea forces of the United
| States have been completed, not in a
| mere theoretical sense, but because il
| IS fully recognized that the work will
have to be done. 1t is not expected
that severe opposition will be eneoun.
| tered, though provision will be made
for all eyentualities.
Ratification of the country with res
toration of order and the process of as.
sisting the Mexicans to manage thei,
own affairs may admittedly take years
1t is understood TO be because of this
that the Paris peace conference refused
btto give Mexico a place with the othe,
nations. Even at that time thes ssifi,I
alton had become hopeless, it is said
and the European governments as. vel
as the government of the United States
were forced to admit that the taking
over of Mexico was inevitable
1 1t develops now that the Mexicans
themselves are realizing that the day OF
&AHlcilcdH intervention Is drawing near
Ter and the latest Mexican newspapers
teem with articles on this subject
Some of the papers are appealing tc
Carranza to do his best to stave it off
but it is seemingly understood that the
task is impossible
Summarizing the reasons which make
intervention, according to the best au
thorities, unacceptable, the following
facts are emphasized:
/ The situation in Mexico has reached
the point where it is bound to 90 stead
| ilv from bad TO worse and where nc
single man or group of men in Mexico
can hope to even partially remedy it
| The Mexican public debt has gon,
for good and all pending American in
| tcrvention.
The confscation of foreign property
is a matter of only few months, il
not weeks.
The insecurity of life and the disin
tegration of civilization Excepting il
spots) is steadily growing worse.