The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-08-21
MEXICO CANNOT ESCAPE.

Perhaps is just well that the people of the United
States should divide their attention today between the
treaty conference at the White House and the incident
the Mexican border in which the lives of two young
American aviators hung upon the payment of $4,000
to Mexican bandits These aviators were kid
mapped American soil.
Is it absurdity to link these matters together in
mind, or are they really related?
One of the first thoughts that might to
American unfamiliar with the ms and outs of American
obligations incurred at Paris is that the United States
has work for this side the Atlantic,
without sending expensvelyu upholstered commissions to
inquire into the feasibility of assuming overordship
Armenia. The bandits Of Armenia have nothing the
Mexican bandits in the way of uptodate methods of
tapping the United States Treasury What thrills in
the shape of novel atrocities, unique teacheries
ngraude need the United States seek by taking
over Armenia when Mexico is at the Threshold
with assortment of original and aboriginal horrors?
Of course Carranza be held personally
able for the kidnapping of the avator but neither
should the United States be expected to drain its Treas
ury in paying ransoms especially if the expense of
somng Armenia from barbarsm should pc added to the
high cost of living Patient watchful, waful, apologize
and tediously explanatory as the United States may be-
cannot hope to avoid giving the least little indication
of annoyance when Caranza notch his gun every
day two the life of some American is snuffed out
1t than human to remain absolutely serene and
the United States is at least human although it does
confne its interest humanity as at present con-
stituted
To make matters worse, Carranza has offended Great
Britain by Diminishing her charge daaires act which
peculiarly untimeIy in view of the desire of Senator
Hitchcock to rush the treaty through without wasting
time in admiring its mperfections Carranza always
like comet whose irregular orbit spreads confusion
and combustion The British government may ask Car
most searching questions, it may work even
greater havoc by asking the United States to ask the
questions.
In that event it is practical certainty that senators
opposing the treaty with Germany will lay stress upor
the variety of troubles nearer at hand than Mount Ar
arat They quite apt to find fault with the provision
in the covenant which opens the way for American
lordshp in heather lands which have shown by careful
survey that they cannot yield anything profitable to any
of the allied powers, The senatorial opposition quit
naturally will seek to magnify the dilaory policy of
the United States toward Mexco-a hopeless task-and
will inevitably raise the question whether the United
States in adopting Article X, that unknown quantity
would not be esopped from taking any aggressive action
against Mexico. They will assemuume perhaps, erro
neousy that the council at Geneva will take control of
my dispute between the United States and Mexico after
having construed the regional understanding" formerly
known as the Monroe doctrine to be nappcable to TIE
in hand On this point the White House conference
heat
Mexico not invited to join the League of Nations
but it cannot hope to escape scot free for all that
clause in the covenant provides that if any nation be-
longing to the league has dispute with nation outside
of the league, the latter shall be invited to become
member of the league for the purposes of such dispute
that is, we take it, for the purpose of simplifying and
facilitating the dsputeon conditions fixed by the coun-
Ill at Geneva. Therefore, Mexico cannot hope to avoid
he horns of terrible dilemma Either IT must square
tsef with the United States it must join the League
# Nations, Let it take its choice and it mpales itself
N one horn the other let reflect upon the fact that
he ways of Providence and its special agents are past
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DENTS
An unhappy person may be polite, but uncomfort-