El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-03-25
NO INTERVENTION BY U. S.
IN MEXICO IN PROSPECT
tended TO the oarran1a govern
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tended 10 the Carranza govern
Even II the plan failed It was
( thought the moral influence OF the
Investigation would promote a health
Ter regard for the lives and properties
OF American citizens especially in the
TeXatious oil controversy.
There is some reason to believe that
both secretary Lansing and ambassa-
dor Fletcher were so ready TO CO.
operate with the senate committee as
to give the impression that they be-
lieved that their own hand in diplo-
macy would be strengthened thereby
in dealing directly with the Carranza
government
Wilson Upsets Their Plans.
But president Wilson upset all
plans. Not only did he decline to
countenance any cooperation between
secretary Lansing and the senate COM
mittee looking toward withdrawal
sldered the jenkins case a rather
flimsy BreteLt for international
strife However, he accepted am bas-
sadOr Eletchers resignation without
so much as a word OF appreciation for
the many and trying months he had
spent in wrestling with the Mexican
situation both in Mexico City and
Washington.
President Wilson simply closes
the book on the past, ignores the
ton and sends TO Mexico City
new ambassador = man who has
won distinction in the European
field OF diplomacy and a personal
friend besides
So far as the 1920 campaign Is con-
cerned Mr.. Wilson is no more dis +
turbed about the Mexican question
as an issue than he was in 1916 when
the Carrizal affair served to influence 4
public opinion and develop more acute I
day To have withdrawn gnltion /
on the other hand might have been a .
confession OF wrong in the first place
and laid the Wilson administration
open 10 another charge Of inconsist- II
ency in the Mexican situation
What Wilson Insists On
NOW the wilson people viii con- III
tinue to insist that the United States
IS merely giving a struggling Repub-
hcan opportunity 10 work out the
policy OF self determination and
that the five years that have elapsed
since recognition was extended in
1873 Is brief period in which to-
work out a reconstruction policy con-
corning the difficulties that Russia isl
having after her revolution and thai
the United States herself had after
the civil war.
To have made war on Mexico would
nave offered a serious contradiction
70 the campaign arguments which the
Democrats plan to make on the treaty
Of peace and league Of nations They
intend TO exhibit the league and
treaty as the protecting and stabilfz-
ing influence whereby the weak are
protected from the aggressions OF the
strong.
In Presidents Confidence.
M Morganthau Is the kind OF a
nan whose mind goes along with
NAT OF president Wilson Besides go
ng 10 Turkey as ambassador he was
,nairman OF the finance committee OF
ne Democratic national committee on
1oth the 1872 and 1916 campaigns and
s thoroughly in the presidents con-
Incidentally, he appears to be on
friendly terms with the oil men
Tor not long nEo he made a trip
to Iumpico in the company Of =.
l. Dohenys OF the American OH
operntOrus who f. prominent In
the controversy with the Mexican
government e.
But Mr. Doheny has called TO his Z
10 former secretary Lane and a new I
'olicy from the Doheny interest would
loL pc surprising. anyway Mr. Nor :
anlnau's appointment TO the Mexico {
% means neither Intervention nor {
withdrawal OF recognition but the ex-I
lfession or continued faith on fheI
art or the Wilson administration
nat Mexico can best work out her. 1
'Wn salvation without the Interfere
nee OF troops from her powerful