Ogden Evening Standard | 1911-04-21 | Page 4 | Taft and the Mexican Quarrel

' TAPT Am) THE MEXICAN" QUARREL. H President Taft's openly announced attitude on the Mexican H problem, is conservative and sensible, but it still leaves us in the H dark as to why the American army was sent pell-mell to the border. H Taft says the army is there to preserve neutrality and not to H invade or nrake war on Mexico. This paper has repeatedly said H there could be no excuse for invading Mexico unless some foreign ' countor had threatened an invasion or the Japanese had attempted H( to force concessions from, Mexico in the hour of its distress. With H& the question of invasion or some similar serious problem eliminated, H' .what is there to justify the rush of rroops to tho boundary line 7 H The Mexican people have a row to settle. 'They should be al- H. lowed their own good time in which to clear the atmosphere of their H internal dissensions. During the dispute, which is being argued - and arbitrated by a resort to arms, the border line will be a danger H zone which, until neutralized, will be an unsafe place for sightseers. H, Because Americans have been wounded or killed accidentally dur- Hj. ing battles on the boundary, offers no good excuse for American in- H tervention. Were cither side to deliberately fire into an American H! city or cut down an American citizen, then there might, be ample H excuse for this powerful nation, taking advantage of its strength, to chastise Moxico for its inability, in a time of extreme excitement, H to restrain, some impetuous or dare-devil captain or other army of-H of-H ficor charged with, responsibility for the offensive act against the H Stars and Stripes. H The quarrel in Mexico is a Mexican quarrel and should be so I yiewed byj tho United States. ' '