Ogden Daily Standard | 1915-08-11 | Page 4 | No Weak Policy for Mexico

1 NO WEAK POLICY FOR MEXICO. American troops may be fighting in Mexico within two weeks. Carranza Is defiant and refuses to comply with any requests made from tho outside. The chieftain seems to regard his position as unassailable or he is laboring la-boring to bo attacked by Americans in order to gain a firmer hold on his own people. His treatment of the foreign ministers has been reprehensible. reprehen-sible. He will go on offering affronts until the United States and the principal prin-cipal South American countries finally final-ly decide (o send armed forces to pacify Mexico. The call for American warships in the waters of Vera Cruz may be the prelude to serious action on the part of this country. The time has' arrived when the United States should begin to deal firmly with the warring forces, The next time American) soldiers are ordered or-dered to land on Mexican soil, they should be commissioned to go on to the City of Mexico. There should be no more temporizing with the Mexican, Mexi-can, armed forces. ' We should go to the full limit of aggressive action, or decide to leave Mexico to its fate.