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Show B The Last Mexican Outrage M TT HE killing of a trainload of Americans in B Mexico by the beaten faction of Villa's H bandits was on land very much like the sinking H of the Lusitania at sea. The men should never B have been sent there -without a sufficient guard B to protect them. The United States government H in concert with Brazil, Argentine and Chile rec- H ognized Carranza and withdrew all help and rec- H ognition from Villa, who had won all Carranza's H victories. That left Villa in the same situation, H that the Southern Confederacy was in after Ap- H pomattox. The Southern soldiers went to their H homes and began again to build up their broken jH fortunes. Villa's soldiers broke up into guerilla H bands and commenced to loot friend and. foe H alike. Their atrocities culminated in this last H murder of nineteen Americans. It was a natural H conclusion and is not a surprise to anyone who H knows anything about Mexican character. There H, is just now a sudden great outcry against Presi- H dent Wilson, and it is just, this far. President H Wilson from the first has not only known nothing H of Mexican character but he has refused to learn H anything. He took up a theory that the way to H subdue a Bengal tiger was to feed him soothing M syrup. When Huerta caused the assassination of H the president of Mexico, except for the president's H stubborness and his refusalto believe the truth about the Mexican nature he would have set H the army and navy in motion proclaiming to the H world and to Mexico that it did not want one foot B of Mexican soil, but that it was determined that H there should be order in Mexico and the safety of H Americans and all other foreigners there should H be assured. It would have been fixed there two H years ago and before this time the natural indus- K tries of Mexico would have been resumed, our B army and navy removed; there would have been B no longer any fear of murder and the heart-burn- Hi ings would long ago have ceased. The blame of M the president is that he was determined to work 1 the business out his own way and his refusal to m accept the statements of men who knew what they were talking about. He has put his trust in ! Carranza who is the least worthy of belief of all the long list of bandits and murderers, and liars, who have one after another come to the surface there and who has not so far fulfilled one , expectation of those who enabled him to obtain j control. The hardest thing that can be said about H President Wilson is that he has no natural aptl- HK! tude, no training, no experience to fit him to cope Hi successfully with assassins and thieves who have j for the time being obtained places where they Ican prey upon their fellow men. We are not at all certain that the most just and expeditious way m to settle the troubles of Mexico would be even at B this late day to take that country, establish order, H1' then call an election and establish a government. Hi K Hi ML The mining companies who sent the officers and men yiere to resume work in their mines, without with-out first taking means to protect them, merely made clear that they knew as little about Mexican Mex-ican character as did President Wilson himself. |