I j CUBA OFFERS US A I PRECEDENT HNt I I There is nothing so amusing as I the long drawn out editorial opinions I of the Stand pat press on the Mexican I situation. Whll It was doubtful as I to whether President Wilson would I act, the Standpat editors were pulling I their hair In rage as they demanded I interference; when Wilson sent hi? I note to Huerta they looked on in I wide amazement, quite incapable of I utterance, until finally they declared I that loyalty to country' required that I they get back of the president When I sufficient time had elapsed so the) I could reverse themselves and begin I ; to scold the administration for dar- I Ing to meddle in the affairs of Mex- I ico, they started a vigorous campaign I of aloofness and loftiness. They I j would not think of intruding In Mex- I i lco; they would not attempt to dic- I tate to another country; they would I keep scrupulously to their own af- I fairs; they would adhere to prece- I dent I A sample of that kind of hich I mindednese Is found in the Salt Lake I Herald-Republican from which we I reproduce the following short para- I graph, part of an article a column I long: I "Our course has not been Justified I by precedent. The Monroe dlctrin I disclaims all intention of doing by I. force that which Mr Wilson has en- I deavored to accomplish by persua- I slon. Disguise our attitude as we I may, It Is nothing Bhort of unwar- I ranted interference with the affairs I of a people over whom we have no I control. In the last analysis, It mat- I ters not at all whether the Mexican r people are capable of self -govern - I meat; we are not their overlords or I ! their superiors. It is a Impertinent I jfor us to seek to control them as it I I would be for a Mexican president to ' (assume to dictate what we shall do ." How about Cuba? That distressed j country was a Spanish possession, I governed and ruled over by the king I i of Spain Neither by precedent nor E I j the Monroe doctrine had this country raay right to say to Spain how that island should be governed. But the stories of horror that came across the Straits of Florida as Weyler drove home his murderous dagger stirred the American people and. a their neighbors, we answered Cuba' -cries, and pat an end to the work j of the butcher. President McKinley j sanctioned that interference in the internal affairs of a foreign country ajid bis resolve to uproot Weylerisin was the most Important act of bis administration and the one that brought him creates! praise McKluley's interference in Cuba offers precedent for stronger representations repre-sentations to Huerta, the UiaMin, and justifies even armed Intervention. Interven-tion. oo