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Show M EX I CO AN UNSOLVED PROBLEM. Lionel Carden, one time British minister to Mexico and recently made minister to Brazil. i6 quoted as say-! say-! ing, on sailing from New York: "If. Is a desperate shame that the United States has seen fit to abandon ihe decent people of Mexico when they most need help. I do not know the reason for this, but it would seem that President Wilson has been misinformed mis-informed in sonic matters and that If another side of the situation has been brought to his attention he has not seen fit to listen to anything that contradicts those who have told him that the country has been pacified "The people who did not get pro toction at Mexico City and elsewhere went to Vera Cruz for protection. What will they do now ? They have no meanB of getting away and will be left to the mercies of the lawless element ele-ment that will overrun the town and country." "When it Is said that a state of absolute anarchy exists in Mexico, it Is not stating the facts too strongly There were some 4000 good policemen po-licemen in the City of Mexico, but these have been supplanted by an army ar-my of 36.000 soldiers that fdught the federal government, .and amon these are several thousands of wild Yaqui Indians, who two months ago fought with bows and arrows as the only weapons they knew. Imagine these wild men turned loose in the streets of a great city with no law to govern them and with the residents at their mercy. "Neither life, liberty nor property is 6afe and whenever an officer so desires de-sires he may turn a family out of its home and commandeer everything There is no redress, for there are no rcjrts, no congress, no laws nothing but anarchy and military despotism with not even a supreme chief to oversee thaL "Huerta had some sort of a government; gov-ernment; Carranza has none whatev er; the only claim he has to greatness great-ness is his physique and that is not so terrifying either. There is not even martial law there because there Is no organization. "The Zapatistas, wild roaming bands of brigands, every few days assault the waterworks of Mexico City, which are only thirty-five minutes' min-utes' ride from the city, and are all the time attempting to get into towu They are driven away by superior forces, but again make an assault when they feel inclined, but this is only an Instance. "For months tho Carranza party lias held the northern tier of states, yet has it established a government7 It has not, and there does not see"3 ; to have been any attempt to do so. "There never has been an honest election down there, and there never will be until the band6 of brigands that infest the land be subdued What can one expect when these bands roam and pillage wherever they wish? They have no laws, no controlling forces. for-ces. They murder and plund?r i where they will with no penalty if caught, "If there is to be an ultimate settlement set-tlement of the Mexican troubles, it must be brought about by the United States. That would take 400,000 men many years, and a vast 6um of money. mon-ey. There would be no glory in it for the United States only tho principle prin-ciple of the thing and it Is a question ques-tion if the great republic would care Lo foot the bill." If the British diplomat has not overdrawn the picture, President Wilson Wil-son is acting hastily and is about to indo whatever goodie has accomplished accom-plished in landing troops at Vera 1'ruz Evidently the administration has had no well defined policy in re lation to Mexico and the President has confided too much in Carranri and Villa. No doubt Mexican brigandage has not been cured in a day and It will not be long before there will be other uprisings, more property destroyed, more Americans killed and then, at last, will come a debt of wrongs, with compound Interest, to be settled by the American government, and "watchful waiting" shall have been weighed in the balance and found wanting. |