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Show UNITED STATES REPRESENTED AS LACKING COURAGE That President Wilson has more than one serious foreign policy is the opinion of tho London Standard, which sizes' up the situation aB follows: fol-lows: "It seems about certain that before long the United States will be forced to Intervene In Mexico. Then when she is bound fast there, with her navy blockading the coasts, and her army and a good part of her militia locked up jn the Interior, Japan might move. With her naval superiority In the Pacific she could seize Hawaii and tho Philippines before the American Amer-ican Atlantic squadron could get Into the eastern ocean; and she might land an army in Alaska and threaton the California coast. "Now with this menace, real or Imaginary, Im-aginary, btifore his eyes, President Wilson Is anxious to make it up with the European powers. Ho does not want Britain. Frn sia, to be unfriendly or estranged, at tho very moment when he has all the available military resources of the country engaged In Mexico, and Japan preparing for action. Recent American policy has annoyed most of the great nations of the old world England and Germany have come together to-gether in a protect over the utterly indefensible Panama tolls; Franco and Spain, as well as England, have good reason to complain of the turmoil tur-moil and unrest which have been fomented fo-mented In Mexico; Russia has been irritated by the denunciation of her treaty. So the United States stands Isolated to face her American and Asiatic. dlffip-iilMpR. "The president has discovered that the republic needs moral, if not material, ma-terial, support. It is supposed that the European powers could lay an embargo upon Japanese action If they please, and keep her ambitions In check; and if the president has to go to war In Mexico he would rather have Europe with him than against him. So the first fruits of "idealist" foreign policy are that the new Mon-roelsm Mon-roelsm has broken down, the old contemptuous con-temptuous isolation is abandoned, and America feels that she Is' one of the family of civilized nations, and can no longer behave as If she lived in a separate planet. She has become a. world power and must accept the responsibilities and the obligations of that position." The United States confesses weakness, weak-ness, if, because of any possible complication com-plication growing out of the Mexican embroglio, there is any bowing down to Europe or Asia. If back of this Panama canal affair, there is a threat to do America harm and, because of that menace President Wilson Is ready to throw up his hands and offer of-fer to placate our enemies, then the American people owe It to themselves them-selves to uniform the president that he Is too weak-kneed and must stnnd aside while stronger med defy any country on earth to humiliate this nation. |