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THE PRESS ON MEXIC CRISIS
What the Papers of America and Europe Are Saying on the
War Situation With Mexico
Welcome* a “Strong” Policy.
(From Ihf* New York Tribune.)
That problem is not to conquer, hu
miliate or pun I»b the Mexican peo
ple. It if* to discover and sustain in
Mexico a stable regime with which
the United Staten may co-operate in
protecting the lives and the $1,000,-
000,000 property Interests of Americans
in Mexico and the lives and
of other foreign firs.
The Wilson administration sadly
misjudged this problem when it was
one of diplomacy, pure and simple.
Having failed with the diplomatic
method it hits had to turn to the meth
od of police intervention. It is a posi
tive relief that the fatuous policy of
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"watchful waiting” has beets abandon*
ed and that a more promising policy
<>t intelligent action ha* been adopted.
The country will stand behind the
president 1n his new effort to smooth
cut an intolerable situation in Mex
ico and will wish him far greater suc
cess now tnat his rocking-chair dip
lomatic problem ha« become a more
urgent diploma tic-military one.
(From tho Philadelphia Public
Ledger.)
Huerta doubtless believed that the
patience of the president and the
peaceful urbanity of our secretary of
state indicated weakness and Irreso
lution. The episode, even though 1*
may lead to deplorable eventualities,
has fortunately «furnished the oppor
tunity for a demonstration of national
unity, and proves that our patience
cannot be too sorely tried without per
ilous consequences. It will produc* a
much more wholesome respect for our
country, and unquestionably will deep
en confidence and regard for the ad
ministration of Woodrow Wilson.
Just a “Little Broil.”
('From the New York Times.)
The president's wise ajwf temperate
words ami his scrupulously constitu
tional procedure will Increase the con
t Idenee reposed jn him by the Atner
iean people. It in of good augury that
the Hotspurs of the senate and house
found the president's statement too
cairn ami dispassionate for their war
like temper. We Could not have a*
s;<f'*r leader in this venture, unpleas
ant at best, but not to he honwTably
avoided. Meanwhile we hope the mem
ory oi Hie Spanish war and of wiust
preceded it has not so far faded but
lbat we may profit by that experience.
We behaved like a par k of silly foojj*
then ;it least that vras true of a con
siderable part, of our people. There
is not the slightest occasion for pop
ular excitement over this Mexican af
lat1 ’. then* is no reason why anybody
should get nervous either about the
stock market or about his business
It Is a blessing, of course, that we ate
so infrequently at war that we do not
know how to behave when the shadow
of war lies in our path, but at they
same time a little common sense now
would restrain both those who clamor
for war once and those who de
claim against the dreadftij wickedness
of this particular little broil.
Favors Lodge's Intervention Policy,
(From the Hoston Transcript.)
Acting on the policy expressed hi
Heim tor Lodge, we should put an qpd
to an “intolerable condition” In Mexico
ns wo did In Cuba.
Country “Fed With Worde.”
(From tho New York Fvonlng Post.)
Hut the administration has nppa*
rently determined to make use of the
Incident to oust Huerta by force. If
this is so. there Is no use in beating
about the bush. The country has been
fed with words; It is entitled to the
realities. and It it time that the presi
dent frankly stated them.
Germany Is Friendly,
(From the Semi-official Cologne
Gazette.)
The Hetman people have no reason
to oppose the course of tho Unit*)
States with an unfriendly policy,
which, besides having no object, wind’d
only Injure Germany's relations with
the United States. Recent dtvclop
mentj in Mexico can only he regretted
as they affect German inter
' • If the Americans now succeed
in <.-da(dishing order and peace In
that country there can he no objection
from the German standpoint. The
American people, who have been kept
in a .state of continued unrest by Mex
ican affairs since the departure of
General Porflrlo Diaz, earnestly want
at least to see peace established aerbs*
their southern frontier and to Hoe a
government there which will give se
curity to the country and not endanger
the Interests of foreigners.
THE AUGUSTA HERALD, AUGUSTA, GA.
DUH LAST WAR WITH MEXICO
How It Started, How It Was Fought; What It Cost in
Lives and Money and What We Gained By It.
(By Rev. THOMAS B. GREGORY)
This concise history will he com
pleted in six installments, published
consecutively.
Chapter 111.
On the 24t.h day of April, 1846, the
Mexican General Torrejon, with a con
siderable body of infantry ami cavalry,
crossed the Rio Grande and on the
following day came upon a scouting
party of twenty-six American dra
goons under Captain Thocnton, who
after a short skirmish were surround
ed and captured. The American cas
ualties were sixteen killed and wound
ed. ,
The first blood of the Mexican War
was shed and it Was up to the United
States to do the rest.
Our country was in a state of utter
unprepared ness—no more ready to be
gin a war than it was to begin a trip
to the moon. The regular army was
hopelessly inadequate in numbers, the
whole force on paper being but 8,616,
the total number “present for duty"
being only 643 commissioned officers
and 5,612 non-commissioned officers,
musicians, artificers and privates—an
aggregate of a little over six thousand.
The younger officers were mostly
graduates of West Point, and so far as
theoretical training In the art of war
could make them good soldiers they
were excellent, but they had never seen
a civilized enemy.
$10,000,000 ; 50,000 Men.
There was* no plan of campaign.
Congress voted $10,000,000 and 50,000
men hut nobody In the Cabinet or in
the field seemed to have the least Idea
of how the money and the men were
to he used.
Neither army nor navy had an in
telligence department. Nobody knew
anything of the* topography of Mexico,
the width and depth of Its rivers, its
climatic conditions or the character of
its roads. In the midst of their em
barrassment they called on a Rhode
Island man to “draw a rough diagram”
and upon the strength of that extem
pore outlines they must begin their
operations.
General Taylor, in coifirnand of the
“Army of Occupation,” with headquar
ters at Point Isabel, dirk not have much
time to study the “rough diagram.”,
The Mexicans, flushed by Torrejon”s,
victory'over the little squad of scouts,
pressed ahead, and qn the. sth of May.
attacked the American garrison at
Fort Rrown. » )
The cannonade of the fort was al
most incessant for one lumudred and
sixty hours, hut ibo Americans stood
by their guns and refused every sum
mons to surrender. Suddenly, about
noon of the Nth, they heard the sound
of cannon in the direction of Point Isa
bel. General Taylor was marching to
their succor. He had met the enemy
and the battle of Palo Alto was-in full
swing
Palo Alto (meaning “Tall Timber””)
saw some tall fighting by Taylor and
his little army. General Taylor’s force
was twenty-one hundred strong, and
against him were eight thousand five
hundred of the enemy under General
Arista. From all accounts, Palo Alto
presented an Imposing and brilliant
scene, a broad, almost level, prairie,
without a sod turned, or a fence or a
fence or a wall for shelter, the oppos
ing armies being face to face with each
other for a fair, square, standup fight.
For five hours the hotly contested
struggle went on. Outnumbered to
the tune of four to one, the day many
times looked dark for, the Americans;
hut their superior fighting quali
ties and their intelligence finally gave
them the victory, and Arista, beaten at
every point, retired from the field.
The First Casualties.
The losses in the battle of Palo Alto
were; American, nine killed and for
ty-four wounded; Mexican, two hun
dred and fifty-two killed and wounded
five times that of the American cas
ualties. It may be said in passing that
the casualty list of Palo Alta, which
will he found to he similar in character
throughout the story of the war. while
it speaks well for the courage of the
Mexicans, is a very poor compliment
to their intelligence. They were brave,
oftentimes desperately, foolishly brave,
but they did not know how to aim.
They lacked the coolness, self-posses
sion and sense of their American op
If We Go Into Mexico We Shall
Stay There
Says Norman Angeel, English Author and Well Known As a
Pacifist in Europe and America.
(From nn Interview with Norman
Angcll.t .
If w. go into Moxico w» shall
stay there, and the political mo
mentum of the thing— the fact
that whan one gets started full
awing along a certain political
road it it impossible to stop even
if w» wish—will carry ui through
to the Panama canal. Because our
entrance into Mexico will not en
dear the United States to Spanish-
Americans, and wo shall find the
American flag insulted. American
citisens assaulted, and American
property daatroysd in Nicaragua,
San Salvador, Costa Rica Guate
mala San Domingo and Hayti, and
sooner or lator, smeo politics do
not stand still, either go back or.,
forward, and wa shall not go back,
wa shall go forward.
\V«> shall, that I*, absorb into our
body politic and attempt to make part
of It some -0 or 30 millions of peo
ple. who do not speak our tanguAie.
win' haw inherited entirely different
traditions and moral and social out
look. whose law la fundamentally dif
ferent from ours, whose Institutions,
■octal, religious, domestic and politi
cal, are different from ours. A peo
ple that Is alien In language, race,
instinct and law. however unruly and
halt civilised, has these Institutions
sufficiently solidified to be Incapable
of destruction or molding In the sense
of Anglo-Saxon Institutions. What
does this mean? What dors H In
volve?
A famous German general once
made this remark "You can do many
tilings w ith bayonets, but you cannot
alt on them." by which he meant, of
course, that permanent occupation of
a territory hy military means has be
come progressively and cumulatively
difficult. . . .
1 dipnoi Want to Imply by ait this.
|he remarked, that the United Stales
ponents.
Ai. flawn on the morning of the 9tth
,of May, Ariata fell back some five
miles to a strong position known as
Resaea (ie la Palma Taylor's army
had been put in motion an soon as the
retreat-of the Mexicans was observed,
and about 4 o'clock in the afternoon
he came up with them, badly disor
ganized arid without the least idea that
they were to be attacked that day.
Rut "Old Rough and Ready’s” blood
was up, and he sent his men in at
once Advancing through the chap
paral, they charged upon the Mexican
line and soon had it broken up into
little groups without a semblance of
order. The Mcxb’an right maintained
the struggle for a while, supported by
se.eral batteries of artillery; but the
memorable cavalry charge by Captain
May soon put the artillery out of bus
iness. and the work was finished.
The Memorable Charge.
May’s charge is worthy of being
retold, in the words of an eye-witness,
the gallant I.teutenant Ridgely:
"Riding up to my guns May shouted,
‘Where are they? I'm going to charge.'
I replied, 'Hold on Charley, till I draw
their fire .’ I gave them a volley, and
May dashed forward in Column of
fours, at the head of his squadron.
"Storming right up to the breast
works in front of the guns. May leap
ed his horse over them, knocked the
Runners from their pieces, and, rid
ding up to the comanriing officer, who
was in the act of reloading a gun
with his own hahds, summoned hint
to surrender. !,a Vega yielded his
sword and was sent into the American
lines. Captain May’s charge is still
reckoned among the most daring and
briliant deeds of the war.”
The American strength at Resaea do
la Raima (actually engaged) was sev
enteen hundred; that of the Mexicans
exceeded six thousand. The. American
loss jn the battle was 39 killed and 82
wounded. The Mexicans lost in killed
2t>2. wounded 365, mlssiing 185, total
802 between six and seven times thp
American loss.
The Mexican retreat soon turned in
to a panic. The Infantry' threw away
their cloaks, muskets and cartridge
boxes 1 to speed their flight. The horse
men urged on their jaded steeds re
gardless of the fallen, till they fell
themselves, exhausted, on the road.
Hundreds hid themselves in the
dense woods, hoping to escape the cov
er of hight. General Taylor’s cavalry
were too few to cut off the enemy's
retreat, and having no boats with which
to cross the river, his troops returned to
partake of the captured viands in the
Mexican camp.
The Mexicans’ Vanity.
The battles of Palo Alto and Re
sara de la Palma staggered Mexico.
The vanity with which the Mexican
leaders Itad gone into the conflict was
rudely pricked, and if their intelli
gence had been equal to their -self
confidence they would right then and
there have quit the game, since it had
been most plainly demostrated to them
that, no matter how brave and willing
their soldiers might be, they could not
successfully stand up against Ameri
cans in battle.
Simultaneously with the march of
events in the territory that had been
been assigned to General Taylor, Con
gress, the President and his Cabinet,
and everybody else that could he pre
vailed upon to help, were busy formu
lating a general "Plan of Campaign.”
Taylor's force, known at first as the
"Army of Observation,” and later as
the army of Occupation,” was now to
he assisted by what was called the
"Army of the West.” They were to
operate far apart, hut were to work to
the one common result
In the Army of the West the shining
names are KeKarney and Doniphan,
the men who dared attempt what look
ed like the Impossible, and succeeded
in making the history which which
causes tne most florid pages of ro
mance to seem dull and uninteresting
as a "twice-told tale vexing the ear of
a drowsy man."
According to the “Plan of Cam
paign" it was to he the task of the
Army of the West to conquer New
Mexico and California, and in the next
chapter It will be shown how the tusk
was performed
cannot conquer Mexico, cannot, in
deed, conquer all the peoples down to
the Panama canal. She can, of course,
If she wants to, exert the bulk of her
national effort to auch a purpose, but
I do mean that necessarily It will nqt
he a military picnic, a matter of six
weeks, six mouths, or alx years. If
England had to employ as against the
Hoera an army numbering two or three
times the entire population of the
Transvaal, what sort of army shall
we need to conquer a population of
20 to 30 millions (I am thinking of
that conquest through to Panama), to
whom guerilla warfare Is meat and
drink ?
If we start upon It, that Is going
to be the main preoccupation of Am
erican politics, that ts going to rep
resent the concentration of national
effort for a generation, or perhaps
more, for we shall establish our pow
er. and then ther will come agita
tions, mutinies and rebellions. Wo
shall advise special constitutions, for
these people disagree about It. It will
all be very interesting and very ex
citing. but It will have one rather im
portant secondary result. We shall,
speaking In terms of practical poli
tics. be forgetting one detail the whole
time, and that detail Is the welfare
of the Amivlcan people
days left to make county tax
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then JAS R. LEAGUE <fc CO ,
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Conditions In Mexico City
Huerta’s Unpopularity—lmpressing Men For Army Service.
Attitude of Mexican People.
E. D. Berry vouched for the Boston
Herald as a business man of standing,
who has just returned from the City
of Mexico, has interesting things to
tell of conditions there:
“Sunday is parade day in Mexico
City. Dons with their families drive
their carriages up and down tha
broad avenue. All officialdom is re
splendent in gaudy uniform. Huerta
in his automobile rides from palace
to castle. Nervous, furtive, careworn,
he rides without escort, feigning a
bravado belied by his restlessness.
No cheers greet the dictator. Not a
hat is lifted as he passes. His ap
proacn is the signal for a scattering
of the brilliant paraders. Only those
on whom he forces his presence or
officers who address him in course
of duty salute the present master of
Mexico City.
“The attitude of the citizens of
Mexico City to the dictator is that of
a people who endure an evil lest its
abolition bring a greater one. ‘Give
ue peace' is the cry of the Mexican
aristocracy, of the commercial ’ popu
lation, of the people who sell the
little products of their gardens in the
capital.
“A few nights ago an incident oc
curred in Bach’s restaurant showing
the unpopularity of Huerta. Bach's,
the fashionable dining place of the
city, was crowded. Every table was
taken as the dictator entered and re
quested a seat. Informed by the head
waiter no table was vacant. Huerta
threaded his way among the tables.
No one paid* attention to him and he
was compelled to leave the dining
room, after arranging for the first
vacant table. When a young don
who had fought with Madero entered
a few moments later a dozen seats
wore offered.
“Men with financial interests 1 in
Mexico assert the power of Huerta is
fast crumbling. Outgeneraled and
outfought by Villa and Carranza on
the north, harassed by bandits and
free lance rebels on the south, his
soldiers, deserting at every oppor
tunity, Huerta is doomed. Mexicans
prominent in the afafirs of the coun
try declare his effort to unite the
combatants against the United States
on the question of a salute to the flag
will fail. It is generally admitted
that friendly intervention by a foreign
power is the only salvation for Mex
ico. They declare if it does not come
soon an uprising in Mexico City may
add to the present complications.
“Newspapers in Mexico City de
scribe brilliant victories over the
rebels. Stories of hundreds volun
teering for service are common. Re
garding the victories, the facts are
that Villa,is rapidly advancing on
Victoria and will probably take it and
besiege Tampico.
“The waterworks at Tampico are
unguarded, and have been blown up
by rebels several times. Disease is
prevalent in the city. Regarding the
volunteers you can see a man volun
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