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Show WHAT WE SHOULD DO WITH MEXICO. We like the tone of an editorial in the Salt Lake Tribune, advising Americans Amer-icans not to get hysterical nv r Mi i can outrages, and to be patient, in an effort to defeat German propaganda which is laboring both in Mexico and the United States to bring on a clash. But, if we are not mistaken, the Tribune, Trib-une, in the last national campaign, criticised the administration for not I doing the very thing that paper now condemns. The Tribuni says: Americans, to be on the Bafe side, must discount all Mexican news. H is not only across the Rio Grande that Gorman propaganda propa-ganda is at work. In this country, a.8 well, the pro-Germans are stirring stir-ring up animosities so that Americans Amer-icans and Mexicans will b'gin hurling challenges at one another. We should be careful to direct all ot our war spirit against Germany. If we are compelled finally to direct di-rect it against Mexico it should be due to thp fact that the Mexicans have become the dupes of the Huns Our own pacific intentions regarding re-garding Mexico have been empha-' empha-' sized in -every crisis. No nation ever gave clearer proof of Its good will. Whatever provocation to war there has been must be ascribed to the Mexicans themselves. There were many reasons of a commercial commer-cial nature which prompted us to intervene in Mexico, but we placed international law and morality above the dollar. Our grievances. In the early part of the Mexican uprisings, were directed against bandits operating along the Rio Grande, principally against Villa And his band. The people of the United Unit-ed States had no well established offenses for which they could hold constituted authority in Mexico responsible. re-sponsible. The outrages were perpetrated perpe-trated by the very men the Mexican government was struggling with all its might to kilL But of late comparative compara-tive quiet has come to Mexico and the I roving bands ot terrorists nave been ! reduced to small numbers. Today a big percentage of the offenses against the , Americans on the border is beingcom-mitted beingcom-mitted by the soldiers of Mexico, and last year Carranza, head of the government govern-ment of Mexico, instead of disclosing sympathy for the great cause in which the United States is laboring to protect pro-tect the weaker nations, sent the arch-conspirator arch-conspirator in world conquest, a message mes-sage of congratulation on his birthday. birth-day. Mexico every day is growing more anti-American and is becoming less trustworthy. Our duty is not only to watch Mexico, but to give the head of that nation to understand how great is our distrust, and how determined we are to end the whole uncertainty whenever the offending once more becomes be-comes so great as to be unbearable. oo |
