oo FIXING GUILT ON MEXICO. The United States is a groat and powerful nation, and, therefore, should be slow to apply pressure to smaller nations, but there is one country which should receive the attention of Amer- ica in a most impressive way and that Is Mexico. A Washington dispatch says that if "Mexico under Carranza, carries out its plan to confiscate oil lands in Tarapico, the United States will blockade Mexico Mex-ico and establish a peaceful isolation of that country. The dispatch further says. In official circles in Washington Carranza and his people have been tried for and found guilty of siding heart and soul against tho United States and the allies. Carranza and his people, submitting to his absolut-him, absolut-him, did this sentimentally. But for their financial, economic and military impotence they would unquestionably have given material aid to Germany. But they were powerless. Not only did Carranza labor more or less subtcrraneously to keep the smaller Spanish-American republics firm in a pro-German neutrality, but openly he crusaded among them for fill nnnr f f or Vila cn.iillirl fimTnn.n trine, the fundamental principle of which, as declared officially by his government newspaper in the City of Mexico, is "absolute political, financial and economic Independence of the United States. Nowhere upon neutral soil with tho possible exception of Spain, was there permitted to be carried on by official license a more intense, mendacious propaganda against the United States than in Mexico. And scores of Car-ranza's Car-ranza's officeholders, with his sanction, sanc-tion, took German money and helped the kaiser in his efforts to stir up the Mexican people to war upon the United i States. Nothing Is better realized and authenticated here than this. The Germans In Mexico are still keeping up their mud-slinging. Persons who talked with Carranza as lato as six weeks ago say he J scoffed at the suggestion that Germany Ger-many was beaten or that Bhe would not yet succeed in turning tho military mili-tary forces of the United States and the allies and winning a favorable negotiated peace. To account for his playing out the German string to the end, circumstantial accounts are in circulation cir-culation here which are reasonably well buttressed by proof. These accounts ac-counts have to do with a hitherto unexplained un-explained mission to the German government gov-ernment in 1915 upon which Rafael Zubaran y Campany was dispatched by Carranza. Zubaran, who Is now out of favor with Carranza, formerly was his confidential agent here. I The American people demand that our government deal firmly with Carranza Car-ranza in, the future.