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Show oo MUNITIONS OF WAR FOR MEXICO That the United States should take off the embargo upon the exportation exporta-tion of munitions of war to Mexico is advocated by many of the papers of the country'. The Miner says: "General Huerta Is undoubtedly an unprincipled rascal, to put the matter mat-ter mildly, but It will not do to take him for a fool, for he Is far from It, and, on the contrary, he is pos-i pos-i sessed of a keen order of low cunning. cun-ning. "He has 6ent word to the Washington Wash-ington state department that he does not Intend to receive Mr Llnd when he arrives at Mexico City as the special spe-cial envoy of President Wilson. "The communication received from the provisional government of Mexico Mex-ico yesterday Is little short of Impudent, Im-pudent, and this suggests that General Gen-eral Huerta desires to force a quarrel with this country'. "ThlH Mexican usurper would not be the first head of a nation, who felt his position Insecure, to force foreign war In order to unite his people peo-ple and rally them around himself. ' Napoleon 111 tried this with dlsas-I dlsas-I trous results in 1S70 "The consensus of opinion appears to be that if the United States should bo forced to intervene In Mexico all j elements there would combine acalnst this country, and It rather looks as though General Huerta appreciated I this condition. "This government has acted very I fairly towards the provisional presl- dent of Mexico and his government, for It has prevented, as far as possible, pos-sible, his enemies from shipping arms and ammunition from this country. "If President Huerta continues to ride his high horse this country would appear to be perfectly Justified In taking off the embargo upon the exportation of munitions or war to Mexico. "If this were done there Is little! question that the constitutionalists would make short work of the provisional provi-sional government, but whether Mexico Mex-ico would be any better off then 16 a question " |
