Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1913-07-27 | Page 36 | Ambassador Wilson

ii AMBASSADOR WILSON I U T will ill si y matters greatly if the critics of Am Ani L l- l IT Wilson will reflect TIll American I b at t th tho Mexican capital i j is thero primarily v to guard American interests H Ho is not concerned d I with the k Ji kaleidoscopic changes of tho the personnel o of f I government vin in in that troubled country except as the they y yi I i f affect the tile Ir hires es and property of Americans and b by byI y I reason of our om obligations under the Monroe doctrine doctrin 3 I I I other foreigners The Tho methods b by which each succeeding succeed 1 i ing dictator dictate elevates himself to supreme power ar 0 without o official interest to him and ho could 1 no mor a i i inefficiently e servo his government than foy y f I ing in purely Mexican a affairs affaire nire I f I If those nil who have o found fault with Ambassador r I Wilson Vilson because he failed to save 0 o from front hi his S I murderers or because because- ho urged assistance for Jh iii tho thoi U i r Huerta government in restoring order will r f these facts th the the- hue huo and cr cry ng t I t the ambassador in jn sonic some some someI I quarters will bo be abruptly V r t I terminated The particular Mexican o g-o government that bears the Ii most pleasing aspect to the ambassador is that I l seems most able to guarantee protection to those S aliens ir iri in Mexico c ico that are arc in a Il sense his wards words Ii Tn I II J common with most Americans and th tho remain remainder er o p of tho the civilized civilised ed world we ha have e no doubt Ambassador Wilson Wilson WilI Wil Wil- I son son felt his bis gorge o rise at nt tho the bloody tim that I J I marked Huertas Huerta's path to tho throne It would not howe however have hel cd him to save sa the lives and property property property prop prop- erty of Americans Americana if he had made faces facea at Huerta I and had audibly consigned him him to Purgatory as the thi L murderer Jie really is I Our ambassador an n that crisis looked about him I saw that the strong and most ruthless of Mexico Mex Mox- ico were rallying abo about ut Within baH nn an hour i after that devilish mi mixture turo of Latin and Yaqui Indian In In- hail dian had bad betrayed his Ilia chief and joined for forces cs with I Felix Diaz a l de facto government had been J Maybo it was constitutional and lawful and maybe it wis was ws not in an any event it was there and in j 4 working i 1 It was tk only government there was as the only 4 constituted authority o of whom tho tim ambassador could demand demond protection for his people and the sole soe source 1 of power that could intervene a strong arm between I foreigners rs and the rioting Mexicans Had Ambassador Ambas I f Wilson Tilson lone done less than he lie did he would have haye betra betrayed betrayed be be- tra ed hia his trust