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Show Published Every Saturday BY GOODWIN'S WEEKLY PUBLISHING CO INC. L. J. BRATAGER, Business Mgr. F. P. GALLAGHER, Editor and Mgr. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: In United States, Canada and Mexico $2J0 per year, the Including postage $1.50 for six months. Subscriptions to all foreign countries, within the Postal Union, $4.50 per year. 8lng1e copies, 10 cents. Payment should be made by Cheek, Money Order or Registered Letter, pay able to The Citizen. Address all communications to The Citizen. Entered as second-clas- s matter, June 21, 1919, at the Postofflce at Salt Lake of March 3, 1879. City, Utah, under the Act Ness Bldg. 8alt Lake City, Utah. Phone Wasatch 5409. 811-12-- 13 CLARK HERE TO UNMASK WILSON DIPLOMA CY years of embittered relations the United States are no nearer a settlement of their differences than when President Wilson groped blindly for a policy and grasped the straw of watchful waiting. We have watched, we have waited, we have intervened and drawn back, we have protested until everybody in the state department is blue in the face and we have submitted to insult and injury, while Americans were being massacred on both sides of the border, and yet today Mexico is as insulting, defiant and murderous as ever. A foreign policy that began nowhere, that drifted in fair weather and foul, and has arrived nowhere is responsible for a condition that is once more becoming unendurable. And after seven years J. Reuben Gark, jr., of Utah, one of the countrys most eminent experts on international law and foreign policy, who was assisting Secretary of State Knox in the earlier stages of our unpleasantness with Mexico, comes among us to emphasize the truth that President Wilsons policy has been a. lamentable fiasco. It is an important event from an educational point of view because the people need to be informed of the still perilous situation and have no ready means of informing themselves. Mr. Gark has studied the problem with the seeing eye of the trained diplomat throughout the present administration and has collected and collated a mass of data which is available only to one in a seven AFTERMexico million. is more or less idle for most of us to attempt to pick .out the fatal flaws in Mr. Wilsons vacillating policy because we have forgotten the various diplomatic interchanges and find It difficult It to keep track even of the shiftings and dodgings of the present. It will be recalled, however, that statesmen divided into two camps of Mexican policy at the very beginning of President Wilsons to us or to any nation what manner of man the Mexicans chosg for their ruler. It was just at this point that President Wilson departed from the old canons of diplomacy afid ventured out upon uncharted seas.' He soon found himself adrift and watchfully waiting. Without moorings his policy has continued to be the sport of wind and tide. Many of us were profoundly confused by the Mexican problem and did not see the consequences of the Presidents initial error. We were not supposed to know; the President was. The American public was not to blame for its confusion of ideas and counsels, but the President was to blame for not being able to cope with his first big foreign problem. From the outset he was utterly at a loss in foreign affairs. It was the irony of fate that one who boasted that he had studied to be President and who had acquired an almost unlimited knowledge of domestic affairs, issues and policies, should have been compelled to expend most of his time grappling with foreign complications of the first importfar-reachi- ng ance. ' He had but one resource and that was sufficient only to beguile the public and save his face. He was a master letter writer. His graceful style and facility for felicitous phrases charmed and disarmed his countrymen for some years. They were distinctly for home consumption, something which Mr. Bryan candidly called attention to in a conversation with Ambassador Dumba of Austria-HungarIt was an indiscretion which cost Bryan his position as secretary of state, but the statement, whether true in that particular case, was true generally as a characterization of Wilsonian negotiay. tions. Like the Pied Piper of Hamelin the President led the Americans over hill and dale until they were swallowed up in a morass of im- possible diplomacy. Revolution had succeeded revolution and when President Wilson Perhaps some of us have asked ourselves mqre than once why backed of took the oath of office he found Huerta president Mexico, .it was that Mr. Wilson was never able to right himself after making Alin Mexico. by the army and by the governor of every state his first blunder. The reasons are to be discovered not merely in the if he not was directly guilty of, morally responsible for, though from accepted traditions of diplomacy but in his own departures murder of Madero, he apparently was strong enough to pacify Mex- character. ico and lead it back to order and prosperity. If the United States The President is our Don Quixote qf idealism. The American had recognized him the probabilities are that our relations with people are idealists, but also they are practical. It is the Presidents Mexico would have been comparatively agreeable during the last misfortune that he is an idealist and impracticable in his pursuit of the ideal. seven years. At Versailles this defect in his character was quickly discovered Every consideration of international law and comity constrained by Lloyd George and Gemenceau and these wily statesmen fooled President Wilson to recognize Huerta. By all the rules Huerta him to the top of his bent. They wanted his league covenant more was entitled to that recognition. By those rules it mattered not than he did, and certainly more than the American people did, but . i |