WHAT OTHERS SAY ABOUT THE MEXICAN "INTERVENTION"
What Others Say About Mexican "Intervention" PROTECTING PROPERTY PROPERTY BEING SACRED, it was a foregone conclusion from the faintest inception of the Mexican rebellion that either powerful...
...they have been turned over for exploitation to Yankee and other foreign concessionaires...
...There is no warrant in written law or precedent for such protection by bayonets and bullets...
...And yet it was not until dollars appeared to be in danger that a single American soldier was started toward the Mexican frontier or that our nation, or any other, made representations to the court of Diaz, than which the locale of his government is nothing less...
...What Others Say About Mexican "Intervention" PROTECTING PROPERTY PROPERTY BEING SACRED, it was a foregone conclusion from the faintest inception of the Mexican rebellion that either powerful interests would back Madero to a speedy victory, which would mean merely an exchange of plutocratic personalities at Chapultepec Castle, or else the United States would intervene to protect the property of American and European bond holders...
...Madero's price for this money, of course, was his guarantee of the status quo for all property in Mexico, and this meant the continuation of peonage, which is a crueller and more hideous thing than was ever black slavery in the south...
...No war can be fought now without a vast sum of money...
...They have been cut off from the land...
...And our "gallant boys in blue," they are spoiling for active "duty" anyway...
...It is plain that property is to be protected...
...The United States forces are concentrated apparently to terrorize the people and prevent them from supporting those who are fighting their battle...
...Taft's inspiration comes, may have further purposes.—The Public...
...The United States is not called upon, under the Monroe Doctrine, to protect its citizens' private property nor the property of foreigners, by force in Mexico, nor, under the Monroe Doctrine, is it authorized to prevent any foreign power from protecting its citizens and their property...
...The insurgents have lately been growing stronger...
...they are harried, hunted, jailed and shot for their hostility to misrule...
...So they turned and joined Hearst in demanding intervention...
...But the numerical and intellectual strength of the radical wing in the Madero movement soon convinced the interests that Madero's success might jeopardize "existing conditions...
...THERE MIGHT BE a purpose to protect American property interests in Mexico, in the event of a chaotic condition from civil war...
...TAFT AND MEXICO ALL PRETENCES to the contrary notwithstanding, this country's army maneuvers on the Mexican border seem to have but one purpose...
...It was protected in Cuba and in the Philippines...
...The Diaz administration has been in a panic—an administration composed of giant grafters and utterly ruthless in its methods...
...THE DOLLAR AS MEASURE OF DUTY IT HAS LONG been notorious that the Republic of Mexico is a Republic in name only...
...Does it really seem possible that to the rescue of such a group the President of the United States sends all this country's forces...
...NO EXCUSE UNDER "MONROE DOCTRINE" HEAVEN HELP the reputation of this administration if the American people should ever have proof that the blood of their sons and the honor of their flag have been placed at the selfish service of Wall Street...
...There is no evidence that American interests in Mexico are in danger...
...they are deprived of a voice in the government...
...and abuses, instead of being abated, multiply...
...that it is an autocracy and a tyrrany, its elections carried by bayonet charges, its justice made a commodity, its rights cf citizenship a mockery and its system of education a myth on paper...
...Suck an invasion in such circumstances would be equivalent to a declaration of war...
...Then, after such an admission, President Taft mobilizes the army and the navy, "to protect American interests," to prevent the revolutionists sallying from and seeking refuge on American soil...
...Therefore the United States troops could not interfere with the filibustering on the border or the revolution itself through any excuse of "Monroe Doctrine" or international law...
...If this statement is untrue, he is without legitimate excuse for making it...
...Diaz had made enemies of certain financial interests—not the Hearst interest, by the way—and these interests would have funded the rebellion had Madero been able to deliver their particular, well established, and old reliable line of goods...
...We come back, however, to the point of Mr...
...yet IT, whence so much of Mr...
...He may know of no other reason for the maneuver than military practice...
...The Graphic (Los Angeles, Calif...
...If so, it were dirty business for a nation born in revolution to be engaged in—upholding the tyrrany of Diaz and his clique against the just demands of the disinherited Mexican people...
...DIAZ TO BENEFIT DISCARDING the explanation of the military demonstration on the Mexican border as "war manuevers," editors are universally of the opinion that the Diaz administration is to be its direct beneficiary, and various theories are advanced by writers and correspondents in regard to the real purpose.—From Literary Digest's Summary...
...Even Minister of Finance Limantour said in Paris that reforms should be instituted and the lands given back to the people...
...Really, it makes little difference whether the bondholders are in Europe or in Wall street, though for a fact they are mostly in the latter...
...Eventually, Mexico probably will be absorbed by the United States, but not now...
...Taft's positive statement that military practice is the only object of his military maneuver...
...At present, it is merely a matter of "maintaining the integrity of the Monroe doctrine...
...It will be the end of filibustering and giving aid across the border so that the Mexican government will have a chance to prove its declarations that it can put down the revolution once this outside help is cut off.—New York Tribune...
...That is the overawing of the Mexican revolutionists...
...that rights of property, except to the privileged, are not in esse, that only the rich are prosperous and the influential secure...
...Wall street and Mr...
...Under International law the United States must prevent any armed expedition organized within its borders against a country with which this government is at peace, but it has no authority to prevent the shipping of arms and ammunition as merchandise which are sent wholly at the risk of the consignor and the consignee...
...The investor who puts his money into any foreign land does so wholly at his own risk...
...The only duty which our troops would be observing by intervention would be the prevention of unjust execution of American citizens in that country.—Gist of Philadelphia North American Editorial...
...Discontent has been manifesting itself in every State...
...As to protecting European bondholders and maintaining the Monroe doctrine, that is largely a public attitude and partially true...
...That thousands of Mexican peons are vilely tortured and enslaved is not now a vital question...
...But this would involve a military invasion of Mexico...
...A way may be devised later...
...Hearst do not yet see their way clear to maintain peonage under the Stars and Stripes...
...EXPLANATION OF AMBASSADOR REID'S PAPER THE IDEA does not prevail generally that the United States is partial to the rebels but they think it is neglecting its duty, and the massing of our troops on the border will put an end to this belief...
...There is little evidence that the insurgents make the base of their operations in Texas...
...that the Yaquis are sold into an exterminating slavery and that peonage, medieval as to time and hopeless as to results, characterizes the industry of the country...
...The Mexican revolution is about dead...
...At the outsit it looked as if Madero might be able to obtain the necessary funds with which doubtless he would speedily have unseated Diaz, who is heartily unloved by the Mexican populace...
...Louis Mirror...
...It will be protected wherever and whenever Wall street so dictates...
...IS IT "IT...
...Against such a supposition comes the consideration that Limantour's interviews seem to indicate that reforms are coming and that he or some one has some sort of understanding with the revolutionists looking possibly to the retirement of Diaz and the institution of the reforms most immediately necessary.—St...
...Doubtless the dollars of investing nations must and will be protected, but what flattering unction might we Americans not have taken to our souls had our Uncle Sam been moved, long since, to some sort of action out of consideration for liberty and justice, enlightenment and law, in the dusky pseudo-republics to the south of us, of which the Republic of Mexico is only some better than the worst.—California Outlook...
Vol. 3 • April 1911 • No. 13
