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Show A Good Comeback H TH HE St. Louis Mirror prints a thought that H has been in a great many minds during the H past six months. It pur- orts to be a letter H from Hucrta to President Wilson and some of it H is H It begins by saying, "In accordance with the H duties of my exalted office and tho dictates of my H conscience, I am compelled, much to my regret, H to inform your Excellency, that it will hereafter H be impossible for mo and my government to rec- jH ognizo your administration. I have instructed H my representative whom, for reasons of your own, H you have refused to receive, to demand your in- H stant resignation as president of the United 'M States. I have no quarrel with you personally M and I have the highest respect for your people, M but I feel that the Republic of Mexico owes a M duty to the democracy of tho world." He adds, M "To my mind you aro an usurper of administra- R tive power, even if, according to a loose interpre- Hi tation of tho Constitution, you hold your office J according to law." H Ho continues, "without quibbling over terms, H the fundamental fact remains that Republican H government is a government by tho majority of Hfl tho people. If you will scan tho election returns H of 1912 you will find that you were never legally WM elected by a majority of tho voters of your great flfl country. My colleague, Senor Blanquet, informs H me that tho votes cast for president in tho olec H tion to which you owe your alleged elevation to H office were divided as follows: M Senor Taft 3.3G9.221 H General Roosevelt 4,057,429 H Senor Debs 812,731 H Senor Wilson G.292,718 H "It is, therefore, clear that you represent a M minority of the American people which, by violat- M ing the great principles that inspired George H Washington and our immortal Juarez, has arro- H gated to itself tho government of your country. H The vote against you exceeded your vote by 9 2,000,000. It is painful for me to state the facts H so bluntly to your Excellency, but I do not see " H how you can remain in office against the clear M and unmistakable verdict of the majority of tho 9 people. I owo it to myself, I owe It to my coun- H' try, and to the traditional friendship existing be- H' tween the Mexican Union and the United States H' of America to insist that you and your entire H1 cabinet instantly vacate the White House." Hj There is plenty more but that shows tho spirit K of the whole article. It is a fair comeback. The H president has demanded of Huerta that he get H out becauso he is not tho choice of the voters Hj of Mexico. It is fair for Huerta to tell him that H he is not tho choice of the voters of the United H States by two millions. The differences in the H methods, of course, are not to bo discussed. H President Wilson assumed that Huerta was not H fairly elected and that he must not run as a can- H didate. Mr. Wilson was fairly elected and one H of the promises upon which lie got in was that he H would not be a candidate to succeed himself. It H is a clear case that he means to go back on that. H That is reasonably clear. H He advocates the nomination by primaries and H he has mor laith in the primary than he would H have in a convention. He knows by how close H a game lie got the nomination before; he knows WM tnat had the secretary of 3tate played fair he EH never would have received it; and he would jH rather trust -to the yell of the multitude to put jH him in than to tho cool deliberation of a con- H vention. Tho truth about Mexico is that there HH has not been a fair election there in forty years. H When Diaz was first elected president, he called H in tho bandits from the hills, asking how much H they were making, told them if they would come H and go into service in the army of Mexico they H would have a regular salary, always have good H clothing and good food; that if they did not want H to then he would keep his -word and see them j safely returned to their lairs in the fastnesses of H the Mexican mountains, but that being done, he H would rim down and hang or shoot every moth- H er's son of them. H Figuratively, he handled the elections in Mex- M Ico in the same way and managed to be elected H over and over again five or six times, so it 1 is safe to say that there has not been a fair j election in that country for forty years. Hence 1 we look upon the decision of President Wilson to 1 insist upon a fair election there, as something Bfl impossible to carry out, and this letter in the Mir- RH ror which is Intended as a joke mixed with a H whole lot of satire is very pat. President Wilson H himself ought to laugh if he reads it. H It will be a good thing for the world when H the world ceases to listen to tho cry of worse H than savages for liberty. They are not fit to .have H freedom given them because they cannot distin- H guish between that quality of freedom which H means liberty under righteous laws and the II- H cense which just now is looting and destroying H Mexico. The dealings with the various chiefs in H Mexico should now be stopped and they be per- H mitted to fight it out until they exterminate each H other, or there should be a direct and irrisistible j interference there to compel order and the execu- W tlon of the laws. |
