Show Bri Bringing ging the Tr Troops ops Home I That was a dispatch which the Associated Press wires wilc car carried carded late laic yesterday afternoon announcing ng that the United States Stales troops would be recalled from Mexico l I They rhey have served the purpose for which the they were sent and it would be bc unwise to longer longel keep them there President Wilson Vilson has proved to the nation that he was right and that the stan were were wrong in Iii the thc l Mexican ques ques- tion Lion He re has handled the delicate situation in in a R way that has added greatly to the Ilic peoples people's confidence in his wisdom and broad sympathy for the oppressed It was sas the dictator Huerta n not t the Mexican people who ho insulted the American Americ m flag and made it necessary sary to send American Ameri can soldiers to toTera Vera Tera Cruz Huerta has gone and with the Mexican people we have ha no quarrel I To hold the soldiers on Mexican I territory would hamper the work of those who sho seem to be honestly striving ing to advance the cause of humanity in their own country country It is reasonable to suppose that this nation will soon recognize the new government in the southern republic A withdrawal of the troops will make this thi possible and prove to the people thero there that the United States is their friend and has no selfish purpose whatever in sending armed I to their thebe land The prospect of real democracy in troubled Mexico is dawn- dawn mg ing He whom the politicians for effect called a bloody butcher with nothing good in him is now deman demanding g that the people rule that militarism be held down to a scale that thai simply will ri aS assure Ule peace I It is Pancho Villa who stands for a civil hot hota a a war government One of the greatest achievements any president has accomplished accomplished accorn- accorn was Wilson's Wilsons avoidance of war with Mexico 1 when Huerta was doing all he lie could to such uch a disaster about I. I When the assassin who murdered hi his best friend and climbed into power with his hands reeking in blood maliciously and pre pre- premeditatedly premeditatedly heap heaped d insults upon the American flag the president declared that a show of force was necessary r to sober the rum soaked dictator To have haYe allowed him to continue such insults would have encouraged the other ruffians of his type to treat Americans as they chose Yet the president did not want to pick picka a quarrel with the people o of Mexico I He knew what was right and nd had the foresight to see what the future held He had opPosition opposition opposition tion of pf course If the vote i in Maine l is any criterion of the way the nation f. f views his actions and the work of his opponents in the Mexican l affair the latter must grieve as they count the returns from Maine and see that the Democrats gained ov over r votes while the gab gain of Republicans Republicans and Progressives combined amounted to only about 1400 since 1912 |