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One of the blessings that the
Kuropean war confers upon America,
in addition to tho constant orders
for munitions which have create!
a nationwide prospertity and en
ables those who own war babies to
net something over cent per cent,
is the very real if somewhat less
material fact that Mexico is not go
ing to unduly excite the nation, ana
whether the expedition now planned
against Villa remain merely puni
tive or becomes a war of tho United
States of America against the
United States of Mexico, there Is
likely to be no very great excess of
war fever outside some professional
and financial circles.
No one can read of the wanton
attack upon the people of Colum
bus without desiring that those who
made that attack should be punished
or placed where there could be no
longer any recurrence of such an
outrage.
If it was outhorized by Villa,
surely Villa should be put with lib
bandits in the clear, for he is a
menace to the national poacc as well
as the national safety of both Mex
ico and the United States.
At the same time there are mat
ters connected with that raid whihe
would well be cleared up. There ars
certain things that look extremely
suspicious. It is not the first time
that raids have been made, ann
those raids which we know of have
been inspired not so much by the
Mexicans, but by outsiders inter
ested in Mexico.
The influences opposing Mexican
autonomy are great and powerful.
The interests which have been clam
oring for Intervention have been
some of them the most powerful in
the world. And it is quite on the
cards that tliey may have supported
Villa and bribed him to mako this
attack upon the people of Columbus,
just as they backed Huerta, as they
backed Felix Diaz and as they back
cd Orozco in his fatal raids.
For this reason it would appear
just as necessary to administer
punishment to them as it seems de
sirable to capture Villa, and it would
be nothing short of a calamity if in
stead of respecting the sov-r-’gnty
of the republic of Mexico, tho i niton
States forces were to effect that in
tervention which outside influe tee
without scruple and without consci
ence have been tirelessly endeavor
ing to effect.
To rape the independence of Mex
ico would be nothing short of a
calamity, and one that would almost
immediately And itself reflected in
the United States.
Very wise men who have been
■watching the progress of the United
States as the coming dominant fae
tor in South American trade have
stated that the careful policy ot
President Wilson towards Mexico
lias resulted in the reputation ot
the United States successfully re
establishing itself throughout tho
various republics. The consequence,
too. has been tliat American trade
and Arnorican finance have succeeded
in obtaining a footing which it never
had before.
A war against Mexico, no matter
bow humanitarian may be the mo
tive, would destroy all this.
It is a peculiar thing, but except
the nation starting a war, absolutely
every other nation refuses to accept
any such thing as a humanitarian
motive therein. This Is an Invert
able rule. The world a large turns
aside in disgusted disbelief of any
humanitarian motive that Inspires a
predatory or warlike movement.
Kven in the Spanish American
war , the world at large positively
refused to see in it anything but a
desire upon the part of tho tJnited
States to oust Spain and erect itself
as the dominant power in tho Carri
bean Sea, ’ to avail Itself of coaling
stations, to promote tho well being
of tobacco companies, iron ore com
panies, and the sugar trust as well
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as to add further territory to the in
dustrial barony of the United Fruit
Co., Cuba Libre was something to
conjure with said these critics, not
Cuba Libro but Cuba enslaved to
American industrial chiefs was what
actually would and did occur.
South and Central America refuse
to see in this possibility Of a formal
war with the republic of Mexico,
anything else but a realization of the
plans and plots of American spoilers.
| They will see something behind the
attacks of Villa and they will asa
something about the Higher-ups who
| may be, for all the A. B. C. powers
^now, in Broadway or in Wall street
or saying prayers in the Churches
for thesuccoss of intervention.
The situation is to be admitted a
critical one, and one that will re
' quire more than usual care and di
' plomacy. The Mexican, whatever
may be his tendency to attack those
| constituted authorities in his own
own country, is proud of his
|country's integrity, and would have
no hesitancy in repelling an invader
no matter whence or why he came.
| Carranza’s position is not any
easier than is that of President Wil
son. nor are all the difhculties at
Washington. Carranza has to deal
with a national pride hurt beyond
measure by the invasion of a for
eign army. To prevent an outburst
of feeling may easily control him
and his army is a heavy and diffi
cult task. We can lose nothing by
recognizing the difficulty of war
following an entry of United States
troops into Mexico, and there can be
no question but that Wilson appears
to be fully cognizant of its poss
ibilities. To a good many war means
nothing morally. To a good many
a war with Mexico would mean an
excellent politics 1 stroke of im
portant dimensions. That it could
mean any such thing as a national
tragedy, Is not within the bounds of
their speculation.
A war with Mexico, too, would not
be such a trifling matter. No one
can reasonably doubt the United
States with its great end imperial
resources in everything needed to
carry on a war, being qujcsly and
markedly victorious.
But we can well recollect that the
Mexican troops are not cowards,
and have proved themselves harden
ed and clever fighters.
It cost Great Britain no end of
trained men to conquer a handful of
Boors in Africa. Bofore the end of
the war came, there were three
hundred thousand soldtors in the
field.
And to keep order therccUer in
Mexico after its conquest, the
United States would neod at least a
constant garrison of a quarter mil
lion men.
That is what is ahead should a
war develop.
It has boon suggested that a buf
for state be established between the
United States and Mexico. This
would appear to be the reasonable
method of overcoming the racial an"
tipathlcs very marked along the
border, and for the purposo of af
fording border settlers reasonable
protection.
In any event, the President has
shown considerable discretion and
not a little statecraft In his attitude
towards tho Mexican question. His
policy has been recognized freely
by other South American powers
with keen appreciation and great
good will. The benefits of this be
ing, it is to be said, commercially
and financially obvious. It is for
this reason to bo hoped this Mexican
crisis will finally dispose of itself
without any excessive jingoism, and
tho integrity of the southern repub
lic will be in no way involved in tho
American .expedition.
Some eugenic cranks in New Tork
hired men to walk the town in sup
port of sterilization of the "unfit’1*
by bearing placards whoroin they
announced themselves as social dere
licts and asking should they have
ne right to have families Ono was
a dipsomaniac, another an “unem
ployable”, another physically defec
tive.
That's the kind of stuff that capi
talism is now producing for our be
nefit. It takes its own filth from its
fooCal holes and throws it at our
face, reminding one of the filthy
acts of the Yahoo’s in Gulliver s
travols.
All these derelicts, everyone of
them; are due to the cohditlons
which a capitalist system forces on
society. The tenement victim, the
sweap shop slavo, the dofoctivo, the
dipsomaniac, all those things can be
traced without any doubt back to
the conditions of labor that prevail.
And although you sterilize every
one of these victims, tomorrow the
capitalist sysem grinds out again
and again more and more of them
until the eugenists finally weary of
their sterilization fad.
Of all the insulting reforms that
have ever protruded their ill-favored
forms before the disordered brain
of a disordered society, this monts
rous idea of sterilization has every
other backed off the map.
Here is a condition of society driv
ing men to degeneracy, fattening
upon a state of things wholly evil
and then demanding as a matter of
social morality that it destroy the
power to reproduce of its own hate
ful results.
• Nor is this fad without exposing
the desperate condition which so
ciety itself facee.
The demand for postorlty that
will fill the labor market with pro
fit producing slaves in ono breath
cries for larger and larger families,
and another Just as unsavory ex
halation demands that the ill-fated
victims of the system be sterilized.
Here are a lot of cranks under
the aegis of social purity opposing
any such thing as birth conrol
among the poorer classes, and in the
same crowd another bunch of ex
tremists demanding that the victims
of society be sterilizod!
No effort at all is made to direct
attention towards the well-to-do de
fectives. The mere fact that they
draw sufficient stipends to secure
their independence is sufficient to se
cure immunity. While the indus
trial derelict is to'be made imp®
tent to reproduce his species, men
like Thaw and the rest of that
crowd are to enjoy a reproductiv®
immunity that will scatter lunacy
throughout the land. It’s certainly
the limit.
The re-union of Shackleford and
Wickersham is said to be an accorai
lished fact. The men who have
been these many yoars at daggers
drawn, are now bosom friends.
It is a delightful condition of
things that after staggering through
a variety of mystic political states,
the genial delegate at last returns
to the earlier faith as a sinnor re
turns to the mourners bench.
That he should have been lead
thereto by High Priest Shackleford,
adds to the glory of the event, and
surely the occasion in the highor re
gions ought to be one of profound
rejoicings.
Time was of course when Shackle
ford travelled to Fairbanks to tackle
the political ambitions of Wicker
sham in joint debate when the
Beveridge Bill and Orr wore the
bones of contention. The inglorious
fate of “little Shack” as Porter J.
Coston used to refer to the Juneau
man with diminutive pre-election
fondness, likely enough taught that
Wickersham was Worthy of the
stoutest steel of the republicans.
Therefore will his return to the
fold be none the less welcome. The
years wherein Wickersham courted
the uncertain prestige of a Roose
velt republicanism or the thankless
alliance involved in Wilson demo
cracy are wisely to be forgotetn and
forgiven.
Having sown his political wild
oats, Judge Wickersham returns to
the manger of the G. O'. P., there
where the wicked ideas of political
Independence may be cast aside ana
the orthodox devotion to party prin
ciples form his new fealty. The pro
digal has returned and the fatten
calf is killed.
We are obliged of course to fol
low this erratic career with profound
trust in its sincerity, as we follow
the career of the devout but mis
guided man who has sought for the
True Faith but has seen led from
the right path by the garish day.
and whose path was ruled with a po
litical pride deepitj his fears. Now
in the encircling gloom of political
uncertainty which is encompassing
the Tribune of the Alaskan Poopie,
he seeks favor at the Kindly Light
which will lead him back to tn*
Great White Throne of Privilege
and Pelf, where an abundance of
the outside Flesh Pots from an un
j tainted Guggenheim, may be his
| for the asking.
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