THEY "DUCKED"
They "Ducked" WHAT a picture of subservience was that " drawn by Mr. Mellen in his testimony concerning the action of New Haven directors when they learned that $11,000,000 had been spent at Mr....
...We do not realize that the Latin temperament is different from our own—and that their ideal of liberty is broader than ours...
...they know their country for the first time, and a powerful national feeling has grown up among them...
...The first American soldier across the Rio Grande means the end of the Mexican Revolution...
...The tariff bill placed the entire force- for the collection of the income tax, excepting the clerical force in Washington, outside the civil service law...
...One director shouted, ''Holy Caesarina Phillippi...
...One may well ask: Why is a Wall Street board of directors...
...and every day more Mexicans join the revolution...
...Suggested Mr...
...It is the peons and their women, fighting in the streets and at the doors of their houses, that they will have to murder...
...Every state in the republic, either secretly or openly, is in revolt...
...And he concludes: The three years of the revolution have taught the Mexican people more than the thirty-five years of the great educator, Porfirio Diaz...
...It is the patient, generous, ignorant race that has struggled for liberty and self-consciousness for four hundred years—unorganized and inadequately armed—that they will have to shoot down...
...We Americans, if we enter Mexico, are going to check all this...
...It behooves all friends of merit in the public service to keep a watchful eye upon the spoilsmen in Democratic Washington...
...Thought spreads...
...And if we, having established a settled government in Mexico City, can withdraw from Mexico, it will be to leave things worse than they were before—the great estates securely re-established, the foreign interests stronger than ever, because we supported them, and the Mexican Revolution to be fought all over again in the indefinite future...
...As yet, the revolutionists in the north have trusted the word of the President of the United States that this is not a war against the Mexican people—and the report of the State Department today is that "no aggressive act has yet been offered to Americans in Constitutional territory...
...Raiding the Civil Service PRESIDENT WILSON is both praised and criticized in the recent annual report of the executive committee of the Civil Service Reform Association...
...The United States will have quenched the hope and the genius of the Mexican race forever...
...Severe condemnation is made of the attempts of Congress to throw down the bars by means of riders on important bills...
...Not on your life," replied the abashed director...
...Mellen, "I offered to appoint any director a committee to get the information, but they all ducked...
...In fact," continued Mr...
...Where that cannot be done weekly messengers ride north over the secret roads...
...But at the first breach of faith on our part, the Mexican nation will rise against us as one man...
...praised for his efforts to keep the consular service on a high plane of efficiency and criticized for his attitude toward tenure of office for American diplomats...
...We want to debauch the Mexican people and turn them into little brown copies of American businessmen and laborers, as we are doing to the Cubans and the Filipinos...
...What have you been doing here with $11,000,-000 of New Haven money...
...The urgent deficiency bill removed from the competitive service deputy collectors of internal revenue classified in 1907, and deputy United States marshals, classified in 1909...
...Where it is possible, the different revolutionary bodies report to Carranza daily by telegraph, and he sends the_news to all the others...
...His reports of the revolution are exceptional, both in style and matter...
...On this point the report says: "The record of the last fourteen months has been marred by the hostile attitude of Congress...
...Mellen, who had already "barked his shins" trying to find out...
...For one thing, they have traveled all over the republic in the revolutionary armies...
...If We Enter Mexico" JOHN REED is in Mexico, for the Metropoli- tan...
...Morgan's orders for what Mellen called "a great big basketful of stuff...
...We Americans honestly believe that we will benefit the Mexicans by forcing our institutions upon them...
...I'll appoint you a committee of one to go and find out...
...And these Morgan directars are men who have been pictured as kings of finance...
...The American soldiers will have nothing serious to anticipate in the opposition of the Mexican army...
...Many readers say that Reed has placed the business of "war correspondent" on a new plane...
...He does not pass ever the "heroic stuff"—not by any means!— but he does aim constantly at underlying conditions and prime causes...
...It is a fight primarily for land...
...In the last issue of the Metropolitan he has, in addition to his usual good "story," a remarkable editorial entitled, "If We Enter Mexico...
...The currency bill provided that employees of the Federal Reserve Board should be appointed without examination...
...Since Congress convened in special session on April 7, 1913, it has sent to the President three great legislative measures, namely, the tariff bill, the currency bill, and the urgent deficiency appropriation bill, each containing riders removing from the competitive classified service important positions (probably at least two thousand in number) which should, by all means, have been kept under the merit system...
...He touches upon the "Diaz myth,'' points out the robbing of the Mexican peon of his land by predatory capitalists, and declares, "there is and has been only one revolution in Mexico...
Vol. 6 • May 1914 • No. 22
