Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1920-02-03

there is:
There are big money interests"
it says, Eat the back of the plot to
promote a war with Mexico. News
papers are being flooded with reports
of partisan opinions by unknown and
irresponsible persons rescued from
obscurity solely for the purpose of
stirring up strife between the two
countries. No man so insignificant
that he is not being taken to San
Antonio to testify before the Senate
subcommittee if it is thought that
he has some grievance against Mex
leo"
The Greenyille Piedmont Gnd.
DEM tells us that Senator Fall him
self "confesses he is financially in
terested in Mexican mining proper
ties, and asks: Are there not In
all the Senate enough members not
having money interests in Mexico to
form one little subcommittee to in
pestigate MeXico?' The Omaha Dai-
lE News tIndJ likewise asks if Sen
atOr Fan favorS intervention 'as a
Senator of the United States, as d
representative of an American state,
or as an eApIoiter OF Mexican min
eral resources" The Sioux City
Tribune Qnd.) thinks the plan of
San Diego" exposed by the Fall com
mittee is TO smoker" and says Sen
ator Fan and his committee have
stuffed their ears and closed their
eyes TO anything good that might be
heard or seen in the Mexican situa-
ton" The Dallas News Qnd. Dem)
has this to say
IF there had been any evidence
available showing that the Carranza
government is retrogressing instead
of progressing, we may be sure it
would not have escaped the herald
ing of Senator Falls committee. The
fact that it has heraldcd little or no
evidence of this kind IS therefore
pretty good reason for believing, al
belt negative one, that the Carran-
"a government has been making
progress"
Another Texas paper the Ell Paso
Herald Qnd.) reminds us that "as-
Stunning that 500 Americans have
been killed in Mexico during the
past eight years, that is no more
Americans than have been killed in
the city of Chicago" and suggests
that I'VE may not blame everybody
in Mexico for what her murderers
have done any more than we blame
everybody in Chicago for the homi-
cides committed there" The Grand
Rapids News Und.) wonders whe-
Their much of our trouble with Mex
leo is not caused by those Yankees
in the republic who want their own
way. when the Mexican thinks he
has the right to have his own way
in his own country" And the St.
Paul Daily News Gnd.) gives up the
somewhat surprising information
that the Mexican government today
is spending at least half its nation
al income on the pursuit and punish
ment of bandits.
What is the solution? The Fresno
Republican Qnd.) thinks "the fault
of the United States has been one
of changeable and inconsistent pol
icy. II Is not necessary that we
should demand more of Mexico than
we have been getting. Perhaps we
should get less. But whatever it is
found advisable to arrange with
Mexico, we should enforce" The
Columbus Dispatch flnd) is far from
despairing. I'VE did a hundred mil
lion dollars worth Of business with
Mexico last Year" it says, and we
cannot do a hundred MILLIONS worth
OF business without making friends.
The men who transacted business
with each other are bound to have
respect for each other and arrive at
better understanding. So while
the outlaws along the border are
carrying on their deviltry, and while
the accounts OF the outrages tend to
give the people of this country a bad
opinion of NeXicans in geeral, these
merchants who are shipping millions
of dollars worth of commodities and
getting paid for them-and meeting
their customers-are forming other
Impressions. And it is these latter
impressions that will Gr"y come
to prevail.