Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-03-19 | Page 19 | Villa Gives Us Lesson in Straight Thinking, Says Herbert Quick

Villa Gives Ives Us Lesson i in Straight 4 Thinking in in Says Herbert Quick By HERBERT QUICK PREPAREDNESS S MAKES WAR PROBABLE Have you you ever heard th that t statement from the an crowd And did you you fall for it If It so Pancho Villa has given you you youa a lesson in straight thinking The present situation in Mexico 1 is an an ominous one It certainly means means means' an invasion of Mexico The hunt for Villa is no child's childs play IT IA 1 MAY Y MEAN A GENERAL WAR WITH MEXICO y v f sv Nobody knows what Carranza will do He is said said by those who k know ow him t to be a Brave obstinate narrow minded mind s ed suspicious auspicious man ve very y hard to get along with and full of ofa a a the notion that it devolves upon him to look at any en encroachment eri- eri yr nent on Mexican soil by Americans no matter what 44 the provocation exactly as we would regard a Mexican d Y expedition into the United States He nay may order order us us to stay out and leave Villa to him We c cannot do that The situ situation tion is very very critical We We may be hurried d along into info a complete occupation of Mexico through Mexico through years of I warfare in which we shall lose many thousands of men and spend billions of dollars What We call pig headedness on Carranza's Carranza s part if it he he decides to fight i ht us may nay be quite something Herbert Quick else Villa Villa may may have have provoked the invasion for the purpose of putting Carranza in a hole Carranza Car may be forced to fight us b by the public opinion on ou which Villa relies Carranza may believe that we are determined to occupy occupy- Mexico permanently per per- If It he do does s not his people may may and and may force his hand We do not understand his difficulties He does not understand gurs He suspects us of ot perfidy W We suspect him These misunderstandings and suspicions are relied upon by Villa to put Carranza in such a hole that if he accepts the intervention of the United States Villa VUla can send out the fiery cro cross s and call the people to his colors under the slogan that Carranza has betrayed the Mexican people to the Gringo pigs or he may force Carranza to fight us to retain his hold upon his people and relies on circumstances to make it possible for him to say I am ama a Mexican patriot who fights for the nation Let us all get together to fight invasion THEN HE WILL AGAIN IN BE A GENER GENERAL L THE REPUBLIC INSTEAD OF A BANDIT x o Do you get the lesson No matter how peaceful our intentions may be we are liable to attack by other nations for their own purposes How can we say that Japan or Russia or Germany or r some other powerful may not attack us tomorrow for some nation natio may reason over which we have no nomore nomore more control than we have over the minds of a Villa or a Carranza There is no way of telling WE WERE ATTACKED BY THE MEXICANS If we did not fight back our whole Mexican frontier would soon be devastated with fire and sword BUT nUT OUR INTENTIONS TOWARD MEXICO l WERE ABSOLUTELY Y PEACE PEACE FUL And we were no not prepared Our did not prevent the uie at attack attack ai at- at tack Proper preparedness would have done so The att attack ck by the the Mexican Mexican bandits Is not In itself in-itself Itself more than local tragedy An attack by any first class power would be a national a nay a world wide tragedy It wo would ld d b bring lr g home to us the horrors horror from which Europe now suffers in agonies which can never be ImagIned And we are far more likely to to be attacked by two first firs t class Ol P powers at once than ever before in the worlds world's s hi history tory VILL IS THE TYPE OF OUR DANGER MUltiply by a million be guessed essed at Let and our real danger may g us prepare against the organized banditry of a world gone mad with war THERE IS NO TIME TO BE LOST