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Show MONDELL'S OUTBREAK. If J?cprcsontntivo Frank W. -Mondcll of Wyoming suggested an alternative policy to that which President Wilson, has adopted toward Moxico. it is not recorded in the accounts of the congressman's con-gressman's speech at the McKinloy duy dinnor of tho Young Men 's Eopublican club in Pittsburg. Mr. Mondell om-pkycd om-pkycd quite a vocabulary of denuncia-tion denuncia-tion to express his coutcmpt for this country's Mexican policy. Amateurs, theorists, dreamers, acting on impulse whore not on prejudice," were some of tho verbal bombs hurled at tho WhitO house and the slato department. Denunciation is a popular vice of statesmen. Tt is as easy as tearing down a house of cards, overthrowing a snow man or shooting up an abandoned miuing camp. It has no constructive value aud chii only bring down contempt con-tempt on one who poses as a statesman. states-man. Wc might nasumo 'from Mr. Mondell Mon-dell 's phraseology that whereas I'rcai-dent I'rcai-dent Wilson and Socrotnry Bryan arc amateurs, he is nf professional in the adjusting of international difficulties, and it is only fair to ask him how he would solve the Mexican prohlem if he wero given an opportunity. It may bo true, as ho says, that wo aro aiders and abettors of, and,- to a certain extent, apologistu for outlaws, bandits and murdorerB of the stripe of Zapata and Villa; but what is Mr. Mondoll 's alternative? alter-native? Would he havo tho United States intervene, sweep aside Villa and Zapata, tako pofficsnion of iWoxico aud oxpol llnerta? Would tho United Slates be any better off if it did tho work which Carran7.a and Villa aro now socking sock-ing to do? Ts it better to shod American Ameri-can blood than Mexican blood to adjust ad-just tho internal affairs of Mexico 7 If it is then thera must bo somo compelling compell-ing reason for intervention. And what may be this reason! Representative Mondol says that wo arc making oursclvea ridiculous in the ryes of the world and isolating ourselves our-selves from the opportunity of protecting protect-ing Americans and othor foreigners in Mexico and their property. This, then, ia tho reason, and wo do not deny that it ha& weight. It may be noccssary to rntcrvene in Mexico" for tho purpose of protecting our own and foreign interest, inter-est, but such intervention cannot be regarded as desirable except in tho last extremity. Every other rational expedient ex-pedient should bo adopted before tho Unitcnl States invades Mexico and undertakes un-dertakes tho work of pacification. That is a gigantic task. It would mean the cxpendituro of much blood and treasure treas-ure It might be au easy task to drive military wedges from El PaBO and Vera Cruz to Mexico City. It is easy to insert in-sert a wedge, but sometimes very difficult dif-ficult to get it out. Tho entire Mrx an uat.on would fr our fucj auJ they would never forget their hatred. The pacification of ,1.000,000 peoplo in a country of such varied topography as Nfoxico might require man- years. However How-ever great tho value of American interests, inter-ests, or oven of American and of foreign for-eign interests combined, the cost of such intervention probably would be greater. "Watchful waiting" may not appear to Mr. Mondoll and othor iconoclasts icono-clasts of his type quite as dignified and thrilling as the "pride, pomp and circumstance cir-cumstance of glorious war," but :iust at present it is much saner and much more advantageous to all concerned, except, perhaps, a few foreign concessionaries, conces-sionaries, aud oven if maintained for somo timu to come it. can lead to no serious national disaster. |