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FOUR 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 Quick Home Cure for Piles Trml Package Abaolutely Free—Will You Spend a Poet-Card for It? If you are a auffercr from piles, in* slant relief la yours for tho asking, and a apeedy, permanent euro will follow. The Pyramid Drug Co., 471 Pyramid Hldg . 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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 returns. IN BELVEDERE The greatest bargain of the year. Right in Belvedere, where land is selling at from S3OO to $2,000 per acre, a 24 acre farm that we can sell for $125 per acre for 2 or 3 days. An option on this place ex pires Wednesday and it ab solutely must be sold before then JAS R. LEAGUE <fc CO , 212 U. S Bank Building Phone 176. 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. 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