Show VERDICT OF 01 PRESS ON intervention IN MEXICO while the demands for immediate armed intervention in ill mexico which broke out so clamorously in in congress with the news of the santa ysabel massacre awaken many echoes in the press yet a careful of hundreds of leading newspapers from all parts of the country shows a majority opinion that we should not re sort to a step that means war unless the carranza government proves unable to punish tal the murderers anil and provide real gua guarantees of safety to americans in the future those who advocate intervention do not agree on the form it should take and we do not discover any open demand damand tor for a war ot ca conquest and annexation altho wo we find the louisville post ind which explores ep lores the prospect of armed intervention vent ven tion iod declaring that if it can not be avoided then the united states should go into mexico alone and go there to stay some journals skeptical of carrangas Carran zas ability to redeem lis his pledges believe the hour has struck and seem to desire a prompt and single handed if temporary invasion of mexican territory thus the cincinnati enquirer in an editorial headed clear the decks for action declares that it if it takes tie the bayonets of our infantry the cannon of our artillery the guns of our nav navy y to make our citizens sate safe in mexico it I 1 must be done arid and the nashville banner agrees that whatever carran 1 za may do the time has come tor for qa i tion prompt and forceful action on the part of tile the united states in mexico aei convinced that carranza is helpless liel pless and th atthe murderers will KO 90 unpunished unless we do the work the washington herald exclaims then let us proceed to it by P punitive expedition by intervention by invasion no matter what it Is called and the post of bamo declares that the most merciful most enlightened and most effective way of dealing with the mexican situation is to grasp the throat of anarchy and strangle it before it can destroy more american mexican and foreign lives the only effective course says the brooklyn times is to occupy mexico until it has been restored to civilized conditions and tile the buffalo news thinks that methods which proved effective in cuba would also bear good fruit in mexico punitive measures should be put in motion first and immediately lately 1 urges tile the oakland enquirer and a condition conditi cn should be established that will make the recurrence of such a massacre impossible tile the philadelphia press is convinced r that carranza will never stop such scenes because he is too sympathetic with them to care greatly and he lie IP I 1 too weak to preserve order in the country over which lie he claims to bl be first chief granting that all peaceful efforts have tailed failed says the salt lake tri tn bane uie tile most logical move is to invade mexico with the lid aid ot of the other american nations that stood sots sors tor for the carranza government thereby hereby Put putting tille the pan pall american ervrit irit to an immediate test still 0 other t papers believe it possible for this I 1 I 1 government to intervene without r break with the carranza govern u 7 tnt ent if carranza carlonza Car ronza cant stop that rort of thing for lack of power rs marks the new york press it is tile the duty of tile united states government Gove ramet 0 to o give him film enough power to stop it with american troops assisting intervention tion of tills this kind remarks tile the carlmore Dait EaRl imore more american would not do violence to the pan american idea and in fit the los ios I os angeles times we read carrangas Carran zas alleged government in 1 I mexico exico is a failure who will gainsay lyes that give him time lime you may say yes give him time but shall americans be butchered while lie he is taking it why johy not give him help why not ask the other latin american re publics to cooperate with us its in armed assistance such an intervention as senator sherman proposes as as the times in borses and has constantly pointed out as the feasible plan ever since madero was assassinated would be entirely unselfish no country on the western hemisphere wants an inch of 0 mexican territory wants a dollar of mexican tribute or an arbitrary voice la fit directing the internal politics of the mexican mexica ca a nation but all american countries 30 do want peace and order in met mei fee and when there is no alternative but to go in and establish it them selves they are laggards not to do so promptly at present however these forcible suggestions seem to represent minority opinions the majority of our papers as already noted holding that because bez ause ot of our recent recognition of carrangas Carran zas defalto defalto government we weare are bound to give him a fair chance to make good before we enter mexico with armed forces but many e even of our most conservative papers admit that it if carranza fails to meet this crucial test some form of intervention will be unavoidable if tile carranza government proves itself impotent we must face intervention says the st louis post dispatch dispane h and we find the same conviction in the columns of the st louis star new york sun world times and globe brooklyn eagle and citizen syracuse herald salt lake tribune and many others this is carrangas Carran zas last chance says the pittsburg chronicle telegraph and the seattle times is willing to give him an opportunity but demands that it be an opportunity with a time lim it it if lie he tails falls to give prompt and ample evidence of ills his purpose to af ford protection lie bo readily arid and sol emaly promised declares the atlanta constitution there is no power on earth that can keep the united states out of mexico speaking from tile the great bordor border state st a t e that th a t has suf fred fred most from the mexican convulsion the houston chronicle urges us not to play into villas hands but to back carranza even it if we must intervene to do it says this texas paper 1 I it our official word is worth anything it if our preaching arid and moralizing moral izing mean anything and it if tile the pan amerl ameri can defensive coalition which we have sponsored is to amount to anything there is but one course tor for us to pur pu sue back carranza even it if we must do so through intervention to do oilier otherwise wise were to impeach all our policies arid and of recent years and convict us of a fickleness which would justify latin america in regarding us its with more contempt and distrust than ever in III the same columns ne e find the following summary of tile the events which led to the santa ysabel basra massacre three months ago agn it was a question of whether we should carranza or intervene in tills this con 1 lection it Is scarcely pertinent to enlarge on the policy which led to such sn alternative tile the important fact being that we were brought face to face with it the administration chose to recognize carranza ills his recognition was not based on the assumption that he had already acquired sufficient power pow er to establish a permanent government immediately but on the assumption that he was in a position to do so within a reasonable treasonable length of time recognition was accorded him with the full knowledge that revolution still e existed x sted in several sections and that villa and zapata were still factors in ill the political affairs of mexico so keenly did the administration feel this to be the case that the state de apartment part ment warned our consular depre sent senta athes tives to use their influence in persuading americans to keep out of 0 maico until conditions became more settled in III the meantime pane pancho ho villa who was naturally incensed at the advantage his opponent had gained arf an bounced that lie he would show americans little mercy or consideration despite these inauspicious circumstances cire aln americans locked flocked back to Al mexico exico whether they did so on oil their own faith or on assurances from carranza officials Is immaterial I 1 minate tiia the state department had warned them arid and pancho villa had threatened alem but they went back just the same we can not help feeling sympathy with them they are of our own flesh fie 8 1 and blood and tile alio traditions of this country cry out for their protection protect iou under existing conditions however they showed poor judgment and this awful nias massacre sacre comes about as tile the logical tho shocking result As the springfield union puts it president wilson is ia simply playing fair with the carranza government V holi ho he refuses to be stampeded into making war and the philadelphia north american while apparently but enthusiastic over our Alex mexican ican explains why tile the president has no choice no now but to 1 give carranza Carrau iia a chance says th juiia progressive organ president wilson despite the du dl mauds of an influential minor lt ltv in congress has let it be know i thit lie Is positively against intervention in hi this decision lie has tile hie support 0 i law arid and of reason for the first time since lie he took it upon himself without consulting with arly any public official to denounce the d de e facto government of a friendly nation and to demand the substitution of one satisfying american requirements countless other offenses and crimes by mexicans against the united states have been perpetrated avith impunity but this is the first gross outrage committed under conditions which aich forbid president wilsons Wil sons taking vigorous measures to obtain redress whatever justice there may in senator boraas characterization 0 the mexican policy as compromising sidestepping side stepping procrastinating apologizing arid and un american the fact isi ib that the president is just now power less in recognizing the carranza gang lie he committed tills this country to a course which compels it to endure watchful waiting for still another season the carranza government is not now as formerly an irresponsible agency president wilson conferred upon it tile the international status of a government such as that of germany or great britain or france it is a sovereign power and americans are bound to await its action their hands are tied by the rules of law and the requirements of justice the device having been adopted intervention has been put beyond our power until the mexican government such as it is I 1 lias has had a decent eunity to prove its efficacy and good faith but beyond this we are forbidden to act by the obligations we assumed in n taking joint action with the latin american republics in recognizing carranza the united states is bound by honor as well as expediency not to interfere without the consent and cooperation of its associates even in the united states foreigners fo have been massacred by mobs for the sole reason that they were for signers eigners tile new york world reminds us and tile the christian science monitor boston warns the country that certain interests and their spokesmen elpe expect t to 0 profit pecullar lyt lly fly or Political politically by b y intervention of the united states arid and give little thought to what it involves it if their ends are gained and if at last ants compel us to intervene in mexico says tile the cleveland plain dealer two turo N considerations should be observed with absolute fidelity in the first place such intervention ought to be with the full consent co if not the active cooperation of tile the powers of south america in III the second place the united states should make it clear to mexico Al exico to south america and to the world that intervention is undertaken merely ag as a solemn duty and that this republic covets not one I 1 inch ch of territory terri t cry below the rio grande we shall if necessity calls go into mexico as we went into cuba to set it 0 riotous household to rights and then withdraw As president mckinley said in ill reference to the cubans so sc president wilson might say in reference to the mexicans it should bd our duty to assist in every proper way to build up lip the waste places ago age the industry of the people and assist them to form a government which continued on page seven VERDICT OF 01 1 it I 1 N W E A I 1 C g continued from pae pa oe six shall be free and independent th there eze must be no thought of conquest or or of permanent american art an invasion of mexico by american hoops asserts the S san franc francisco star is just what is wanted by W rt hearst theodore roosevelt volt villa and the americans and foreigners including standard oil and the pearson syndicate who he wish to loot mexico this paper goes on to say there is no doubt that carranza will make every effort to capture and punish the bandits who murdered the americans at any rate that is car banzas job and no american has any right to go into mexico tor for that purpose without the consent of the carranza government in times past chinese have been robbed assaulted and even ruthlessly murdered here in california by americans but there was never a domand demand by the chinese that their government should invade till this country yet the robbed and murdered chinese had a right to te be in america and neither their own government nor the american government had warned them to leave america years ago when a new orlean I 1 mob wantonly murdered some italians who were accused of a crime but had i been cleared the italian government made no threats and did not dream of making war upon the united states the murdered italians had a right to be in this country they had a right to be in new orleans more than any of cf the sixteen murdered americans had to be in chihuahua they had re na no warning that it was dangerous for them to be in new dorleans leans and there was no reason for them to t suspect danger in that city the dispatch of united states 1 troops over the mexican border says the new york globe would not save american lives but sacrifice them would not protect american property but lead to its further destruction and it thinks that armed intervention would have occurred icing ago except for recognition of the practicalities pr of 1 the situation we read president tatt taft lined up regiments on the border and was about ready to dispatch the order to advance when tie be realized readied rea lied what would be the consequences I 1 it is not altogether idealia I 1 tic lie theory and respect ct for the abstract rights of mexico blat have bave induced president wilson to reject intervene in ton proposals i e ii s had same wea idea of cit what v hat the th jhc thc woi id incan mc n in massacres massacre long leaoro an american rine rifle could protect the beleaguer ed the president las bzan much auch cri cn for suggesting to americans that they leave mexico it has hinr bec beci i i asked why ho he did not protect them in mexico iio could not nol this disagreeable truth must bo be faced intervention would mean massacres s boud it occur while americans are resident resi deit in mexico and the st louis post dispatch enlarging on the folly of intervention in the present crisis says this is no time to tie up the american can army and the american navy with mexico it if there is a way ay to avoid it carrangas Carran zas promise of condign punishment for the perpetrators of the massacre in chihuahua Is obviously y sincere his interest in executing them surpasses our interest in having baring them executed for far it Is a matter ot of life and death to his big government ment there Is little good faith in any talk of intervention most of 1 it is is politics 0 I 1 some of it rankly de demagogic ag ogi senator works who introduced the intervention resolution in the senat senai Is the same gentleman who recently assailed the administration for permitting americans to travel on oil the belligerent ships altho their legal 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