Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-05-17
i. s. AND MEXICO
COMING T0GE THE R!
RECOGNITION OF THE OREGON
GOVERNMENT is EXPECTED
BEFORE LONG.
SOME CONCESSIONS LIKELY
Troubles With Our Neighbor on the
South Have Been Frequent and Sc
rious Ever Since General Diaz Re-
tired From the Presidency.
BY EDWARD 3. CLARK

BY EDWARD B. CLARK
Washington American capital once
more is being Invested in oil and min
ing industries in Mexico. This means
capital believes that the present sharp
signs Of coming recognition Of the Mex
lean government by the American gov
eminent are to be fulfilled.
There have been interchanges be-
tween the American government and
the Mexican government recently
which make it appear that Mexico lis
willing to meet the demands of the
American State department, and that
the latter, in behalf of this country, is
willing to make some concessions to
Mexican demands. It looks as if Uncle
Sam would have another minister to
Mexico City before long.
Since the death Of President Diaz,
who was sort of perpetual president,
there has been a constant succession of
troubles between this country and the
land south of the Rio Grande. Prior
to the breaking out Of the great war
the front pages Of the newspapers
were occupied day by day with stories
of Mexican rows and threatened Amer
lean invasion Even after the great
war started and prior to the entrance
Of the United States into that conflict,
Mexican news had struggle in the
offices Of the managing editors Of the
country with foreign news as to which
should have leading place on the page
Of pages.
Our Late Troubles With Mexico.
The more modern troubles with Mex
leo began after Diaz had dropped the
presidency. There were half dozen
Mexican aspirants for his place and
the one who was first successful, as
presumably everybody remembers, was
killed only a short time after assuming
office. The rest of the troubles are
perhaps too recent history to be told
at any length. Villa, whose name APP
peared in heavy type in the American
newspapers every day for long time,
strutted through the scene and with
him strutted the bespectacled and
bearded Carranza.
The United States landed sailors at
Vera Cruz during the earlier part of
the Wilson administration, and in the
fight which followed many Americans
lost their lives. Then there was the
Pershing expedition sent from our
southern border into Mexico, a So
called punitive expedition which did
not do very much Furnishing but which
stayed put ready to act if action
were necessary.
Obreg0n's accession to the presi-
dency brought a different situation,
and now things have so far developed
that American capital once more is
going back into land which has been
almost one continuous scene of trouble
and hostility, and the officials of the
State department seem to think that
matters finally are settled and that
Mexico for some time to come, at any
rate, will moi be one Of the perplexing
problems to trouble American admin
istrations.
Oil Produced Much Friction.
Oil, for all its smoothness, has been
one Of the friction producing troubles
in the republic to the south of us. The
oil holdings of European companies,
naturally receiving the protection of
their governments, have come several
times near to the point of producing
something worse than friction between
the United States and countries over
the water. It is not definitely known to-
day whether oil may not again become
a source of trouble, but the hope seems
to be that neither the gusher nor the
well of steady flow will be provocative
in the near future Of any international
difficulties.
In the Roosevelt administration it
was thought for time that all trou-
bles with Mexico were at an end, but
those who so thought soon were forced
to have another thought on the matter
1t fell to the lot Of President Taft to
order troops to the border in 1911
three years before the outbreak Of
great war. When the 1900 American
soldiers were gathered together on the
border of Mexico it was said that this
was probably the largest American
force which ever would be called upon
to meet an emergency under arms. Six
years later our army Of millions of men
came into existence.
"Reds" and Legion Men.
An increased number of police
guards appeared at one of the
gates to the White House grounds
the other day They had been or
dered to duty there because of the
fear that some members of the Amer
lean Legion, angered by the activities
of persons accused Of being in league
with agents of the Russian govern
ment, might offer personal violence to
a group of men picketers gathered at
the gate for the announced purpose of
trying to influence the President to
pardon the criminals still remaining in
prison who were convicted for war
time offenses against the government.
The Legion men offered no violence
to the pickets. The increased police
guard was a precautionary measure,
for while there is precious little SYM
pathy with the picketers in Washing