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. ''"," ' ; -;. . -. r. , ' , : .,- . " c ... iorft ; Fail ;to GASTON PUBLISHED TWICE A WEEK TUESDAYS ASD FRIDAYS. 3 ( VOL. XXXVII. ? NO. 57. ' . ' " - I OASTOXIA, If. 0,: TUESDAY AFTERXOOV, JULY 18, 1910. $1.50 A YEAR Ef ADVaS'CS. How Our Present Troubles With ftlexico.Game About GEORGE W. PASCHALn State Journal The present Mexican troubles be gan in 1910. At the national elec tions in July of that year Porflrio Diaz was again chosen President. He had occupied that office since 1877 with the exception of the period from 1880-1884. when a weak tool of his was nominated President. Me had ruled the country under tne forms of a republic but really as an absolute monarch." his power being limited only by the necessity of keep ing the favor of tbe great landed aristocracy of Mexico, some six or seven thousand persons. From them he chose the six members of his can inet and in their Interest he directed the affairs of the 'country. But it is well here to say that Diaz did much more than run his govern ment in the Interest of the aristocra cy. He maintained order in Mexico, repressed crime, put down bandits, quelled any insurrections against his government, and for 33 years .gave peace to a country which both before and since has been In a state of con stant turmoil and insurrection. He did more; by establishing peace and order he fostered the business and Industrial development of Mexico. He Invited foreign capital and it flowed In. In 1910 more than a billion doi lars of American capital was invest ed in Mexico. Along with the capital went many American citizens to manage and direct the enterprises, such as railroads, manufactures, mines, street railways, lighting plants and hotels In which American .capital was invested. The' result was that In- many ways the country was becoming Americanized. It Is well to remember this for it will explain M-hy In addition to defending the bor der against bandit raids, this coun try has had a peculiar interest in this Mexican trouble. But one result ef the presence of American capital and American citi tens was not guarded against by tne Diaz government and that was the growth of American political ideals in that country. The peons, as the feeasants aBd tenants jw ho- woTir tne estates or the great landlord are can e$. began to grow restless and dlssat lsfied with a government run in tne Interest of the aristocracy. v This spirit of unrest came to a head in 1910 and broke out into suc cessful insurrection. Dr. Francisco Madero had been a candidate for tne ' Presidency In that year,-but he was thrown into prison and his candidacy surpressed. After the election he was released and escaped to Ban An tonio. Texas, where, with other Hex- . lean refugees, he planned the revolu tion. Returning to Mexico on No vember 19, they began operations in the northern Mexican States. They continued with such success that on Mar 10. 1911. Diaz resigned the Presidency and left the country. Senor de la Barra becoming ad inter im President. In the October elec- ' tlons Madero was elected President. Coincident with the decline of tne Diaz government fame the beginning of troubles between Mexico and tne United States. The first matter of animosity was trivial, hut It served to show, that however much influenced by Ameri can democratic ideals, the people of Mexico looked upon the foreign American capitalists with a disfavor which involved the whole American nation. It needed only a spark to touch off this animosity. On No vember 2, 1910, a Mexican named Rodriguez, was lynched burned at the stake at Del Rio, Texas. His ' .crime was that of murdering a ranch Oman's wife who refused him food. This lynching caused considerable .excitement in Mexico. At th capi tal the windows of American cltl . zens were broken, American children were stoned on the streets, and the :son .erf the American Ambassador was assaulted. An American flag was ..torn; to pieces and trampled , under : foot, tn pther towns mobs marched "' the streets crying, "Death to the s Americans." 5 The matter was made the subject of diplomatic negotia tions. 'This was during the presiden cy orMr. Taft, when Mr. Knox was Secretary, -of State. v; v Another -thing which caused es- trangedi -relations was the mobiliza " tion of our troops along the Mexican ' border. ' In theraprtng of 1911 Pres- ' ' ldent Tatt-gare orders under whicn ao.OOO of oursoldlerg were gathered i In 6an Antonio and other points, and y four fast cruisers were sent to Gal Teaton. ' 7ker Mexican did not like -. this and retaliated by arresting three - j American citizens on the charge of l fostering' the revolution.. In April ot this year -several 'Americans were 'killed by stray bullets from Mexicans - fighting .near : the t - Arizona " - border. Mr Knox pretested- to rthe 'Mexican Government and there was mucn italic of our interfering 4n Mexico at that time,. ,but Mr. Knox declared that such was only "foolish stories." Madero became President. In Ko - vember, 1911v It seems that he was ' - -endeavoring to give the people a con etitutlonal government l and - was working for the advancement of the 'Mexican people. - But he, was much . too slow for the Mexican peon who hoped., like the Reconstruction -He- gro. immediately to come intc pos 'v session of ?'40'.ere and a-tnule." ; Madero was also lenient with hi po 'lltlcal opponents.. VHe . did : not haTe , them stoodnp against: a wall and .shot an had been the usual -custom in Mexico. Hence the Mexicans despis ed him as a weakling, and organized insurrection after insurrection a gainst him. On February 17, 1913, as a result of an Insurrection in Mexico City, ne was betrayed by his commander-in- chief, Vlctorlano Huerta, and thrown into prison. On February 23, he was shot and killed while attempting lo escape." This was during the time waea Mti Taft was President. American citizens had already begun to suffer in Mexico. Many Mormon colonists from the United States living In tne province of Sonora fled from their farms and sought refuge in this country. Jt became repeatedly nec esBary to give the Mexicans warning not to fight near the American bor der. Congress authorized the Pres ident to prohibit the shipment or arms into Mexico, but Mr. Taft made an exception in favor of the Madero government. ' After the death of Madero, Huer ta became provisional President. Mr. Taft had not yet given his govern ment the recognition of this country when he was succeeded by President Wilson on March 4, 1913. Mr. Wil son soon made it plain that this gov eminent should never recognize Hu erta as head of the Mexican republic. The fact is that Mr. Wilson used bis position as President of the United States to drive Huerta out of Mexico Mr. Wilson talked against Huerta, as at Mobile, he favored the Carran za party by withdrawing the embar go on arms, and on a pretext whicn history will regard as most trivial he sent our navy and army to occupy Vera Cruz, costing us the Iobs of 19 lives, 70 men wounded and $15,000. 000. The immediate effect was co prevent the landing of a shipment or arms and ammunition from Germany for Huerta. The ultimate effect ar ter a few months of wrangling in the "A. B. C. conference at Niagara was to favor Carranza. Before this Mr. Wilson had sent Governor Lind as a special ambassador to Mexico. His object was to get Huerta to a gree to a plan for peace, one of tne items of which was Huerta s own elimination.' As will be recalled Mr; Ufld -mission dldnrot meet wttn' success. Many details of the deal inga of President Wilson with Huer ta must be omitted." "The final." re suit, however, was that Huerta fail ed and left the country and the Con stitutionalists under Carranza and Villa held undisputed authority in the northern States of Mexico, while Zapata held the south. Almost immediately Villa had quarreled with Carranza and once more Mexico was in turmoil. Villa Joined with Zapata, a bandit leader from Southern Mexico, and in com mon they made war on Carranza. Mr. Wilson offered his good offices to es tablish peace. He asked all three chieftains to agree to certain terms in June, 1915. AH indicated their willingness to agree except Carran za. With true political sense he gained favor with the Mexican peo ple by refusal to comply with Mr. Wilson's request. In the puzzling situation that followed Mr. Wilson recognized him as head of the de fac to government of Mexico, seeming io hope that in this, way the Mexican troubles would cease. American arms were cut off from Villa and Za pata and every kind' of . favor Was shown to Carranza. With the Help thus given Carranza was able td maintain his position. But gratitude is not one of his qualities. He does ot recognize the great value of President Wilson's friendly turns to him. On the other hand, he has many times talked pompously and sharp to President Wilson. He scold ed him when he complained to Villa instead of himself about the murder of Benton, the British subject; ne sent Mr. Wilson a sharp note when our fleet went to Vera Cruz: lie first treated the A. B. C." conference with disdain and then sent his rep resentatives there and delivered tne ultimatum which was adopted; ne refused, as has been said, to agree to Mr. Wilson's plans for peace among the three chieftains; he "protested and had his protest allowed when our troops first entered Mexico in pursuit of Villa. He is now demand ing that American troops be with drawn from Mexico. But Mr. Wil son is no longer yielding. And here in lies the present crisis. Carranza is either unwilling or unable to keep Mexican bandits out of this country, and is unwilling that United States troops should takeeffectiv meas ures against uieiu.. This brings us to the reasons and objects ot intervention, if interven tion must come. ' The first and most obvious reason is to secure our people living along the : border ; against these , bandit raids. . For six years now we have maintained - an army of 20,000 -to 3 5,0 Off , men along the Mexican boN der at great expense. : But even so we have not been able to prevent jaids across the border. We have been thwarted almost constantly. For the last year there have been numerous raids, especially along the lower Rio Grande,, but the most serious was Villa's raid last spring on Colnmbus, Neiifl Mexico- Siace then there have been three other serious raids. - fol lowed In each lnstahfee by: a punl- 11 .... ... a 4e. . . . n . . uw expeaiuon vi '.umxea i states troops into Mexico. In every- case the bandits ' have made,, good" their . .'-es cape. la: no case hate Carranza" forces co-operated with ns In, our ' ef forts to capture the bandits.' This f Y " r y j by CllnedlnaL' Surgaon Gnral William C Gorgas, United States Army. TODAY'S POEM The World Too Much With Us. . The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and Bpepdlng, we lay waste our powers; Little we see in nature that is ours; We bftve given our hearts away, a sordid boon! This sea that bares her bosom to the moon, The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers For this, for everything we are out of tune, It moves us not. Great God! I'd , rather be A pagan suckled in a creed outworn; So might I, standing on this pleas ant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; t Have sight of Proteus rising from -ttrcrwa; ; Or hear old Triton blow his wreath ed horn. Wordsworth. General Carroll A. Devol, matter Corps. QuartsJ kind of thing cannot go on indefinite ly. If Mexico cannot stop it then the United States must, even if It takes a war to do It. It can be stop ped only by ttteTnited States taking possession of the Mexican territory along the border and policing it. Another reason for intervention is to establish a stable and secure gov ernment such as it -appears the Mexi cans cannot establish for themselves;. This government;woaId give security to foreigiers, to foreign capital ana industrial enterprises. It would se cure the bnilons ef dollars Invested In that country by American citizens against waste by. revolutionary lead erg -for their selfish purposes. .It American troops take possession or Mexico we may be sure that they will never come out until the- rights of American capital In that country are thought to be safe from aggression. Nobody cares much for Mexican ter ritory, but all "want order and peace and secarlty there, - r Another reason for intervention Is that the only hope for final peace m Mexico is a kind of Americanization of that country politically, r The Uni ted States must .guarantee peaceful elections In hat country. It must teach Its people' that reforms .can come by the ballot rather than by bayonets. Once there. It wlu be our duty to stay there until the Mexican seople have learned, this great lesson of. democracy, and show that', they are able to govern themselves..; C by Cllnedtnst. General Enoch H. Crowdor, Judgo Ad vocate Gnral, United States Army. Canning String Beans by tho 4-H Method. Extension Farht ews. , The Canning Club girls have made' about as great a reputation in can ning and selling string beans as they have in. tomatoes. One thing, that has aided in this work is the meth od of canning and the quality of beans used. They have adopted the motto of "straight from the vine to the can" that is, tbe beans are al ways canned on the same day on which they are gathered. In canning these beans either for the No. 2 or the No. 3 can, beans which are young and tender and that have few strings are used. The Green Pod (Stringless has been found to .give the best results. The trade seems to like a green bean about the size of a rat tail: hence the term "Rat Tail Beans.' If the beans are and every vestige of string is remov ed, there is no doubt of a marhet for tho finished product. The beans are snapped at both ends',' stringed, put in the wire bas ket of the canner or in a thin cotton bag, and plunged Into boiling water for from 3 to 5 minutes. This re moves certain aclda and makes the flavor of the beans better. This is one thing that should never be for gotten is canning beans. After the time is up, the beans should bo re moved from the water and pacsed tightly in sterilized cans witnlJ one fourth Inch from the top of thf ran and the Can filled with hot water. Ono level teaspoonful of salt should be added and tho can sealed: It should then be exhausted for flvo minutes, which forces all tne air remaining in the can through the little hole left open in the top. The hole is' then sealed or tipped -with a drop of solder and the can is ready for the "processing." It(U!cts two hours and 20 minutes for com plete "processing," and during t'.-.ls time the cans should be turned over once or twice. It should be careful ly observed if the cans are tightly sealed during this time, for they are being given their final sterilization In this method. . In "processing," the cans are plac ed In trays and lowered Into the boil ing water. The temperature of tne water Is then reduced, and when boiling begins again, the time is started. The water should be boil ing every minute of the time the cans are supposed to be processed, and the cans should be removed prompt ly when tho time is up. No guess work should be done. Durham gets next year's session of the NortK Carolina Dental Society. This year session was held at Ashevllle, adjourning Friday night. by CimMtnat: Genera! Honry P. McCain, Adjutant Y THE NATIONAL At Seen by Henry Watterson, Editor , of The LouUvJIIe ' CourierJournal r .. ' ' J'.- '. The Republican convention at Chicago and the Democratic conven tion at St. Louis having practically completed the work that called them together, the country may take a long and ', let us hope, a thought ful and tranquil look at the altern ative which the politics of the time present, the final result not likely to be much affected by the side-shows which usually follow and gather va bout the two mammoth party tents. In the presence of the world prob lems that menace us it would be a splendid thing if we had no party contest for the President; if both parties, agreeing to disagree, would get together and stand back of the existing Administration;' it being now, as ever, unsafe to swap horses while crossing streams. A united electorate would elevate and strengthen Republican Ideals at home and abroad. In that default. however, we have still reason to be thankful that the specter of life-ten-Tire has been lifted. It will be a longtime before any successful (poli tician and popular, favorite attempts to violate the. tradition Against A third term la the' White House set by WaBhington.N It Is likely Indeed that ere this happens we shall have a Constitutional Amendment" limiting the Presidency to a single term of six, or seven years. Meanwhile, It is of good augury that, in the per sons of Woodrow Wilson and Chas. Evans Hughes, we may choose be tween two educated and patriotic men to either of whom under normal conditions the National welfare might be safely intrusted. After twenty years of Bryan cant and fifteen years of Roosevelt rant it would seem a blessed relief to have a Presidential campaign pitch' ed on a sober key by two competing Presidential candidates representing the reflective and orderly which sur vive in the minds of the voters; but i are, eJo Jj aU uiUd g-Wilao DuaiUL uugnes, to nave me screaming ana yawping merely, vary their' terms and transfer themselves from. ; fus tlanlzing about fiscal Quldltles and social ethics to the old humdrum of the "outs" against the "ins," false accusations and big promises raising only crimination andrecrlminaUon? When old " Sam Johnson 'defined "patriotism" as "the last refuge of a scoundrel," no one had conceived, or could foretell, the Infinite variety of the modern politician's genius for humbug. Relying upon the personality and the character of their nominee to pull them through, the Down-and-out Republicans have placed him on a platform of flapdoodle about "Americanism" and "Preparedness," in which empty rodomontade plays hide-and-seek with vaporing as to the .Would-Have-Beens had they, and not the Democrats, been in pow er, nowhere a clear, incisive state ment touching any situation, or pol icy, in actual rebuttal. It is good to fly the fag to rally beneath it to wrap its folds about you our Btar-flowered emblem of liberty, America's symbol of the free heart's hope and home. But it Is quite as fraudulent and indecent to flaunt It as a shibboleth for party ad vantages as to use it to advertise a quack nostrum. The flag belongs to no party. It is tbe heritage of all parties. Both the Republican party and the Democratic party are Am r icans good Americans and "Amer icanism" is as dear to the one as the other. Each of us is for "prepared ness." Whatever issue exists is one of degree, not of sentiment and pur pose. ' There is a Prussian system and there is an American system. The Republicans have lined up on tne Prussian system. The Democrats have lined up on the American sys tem. Hence the Prussians in Amer ica are lining up with the Republi cans. Achieving the pan-Germanic aims of the original propaganda started by Dernberg and organized into a political movement by Bart holdt, they propose to show that t&e Kaiser Alliance holds tbe balance of power in tho United States. This makes the straight and single Issue of the campaign before us turn upon whether we shall have our President dictated to us from Berlin, or shall choose him for ourselves. ih The evidence is not only direct but multiplied. Though the cam paign has only lust started, the New York World has" made a conclusive,' luminous and startling compilation. Under tbe inqalry, "Can the Kaiser Defeat the President," because of a foreign policy distasteful to Pots dambecause ' the ' President has been an American and not a German that energetic journal shows that the heads of the German-American Alliance In Chicago - indorsed the Hughes nomination as soon as "tne convention had -finished ..Its work, and that the .officers of. the German societies in .Milwaukee who ' sent their, ultimatum to. the Republicans last. week, hastened to .express their approval . alike of , the platform, and, the ticket. ," There follow an array from whic& there' is no escape.- George Sylves ter Viereck, the subsidized hound who edits the Fatherland, which. Is the most vicious, disloyal and sedi CONVENTION tious of all the German, newspaper In the United States, declared that ' "The nomination ? 1 of 1 Justice Hughes means the salvation of the Republican party. It is a trlumpn -of genuine Americanism over nativ im." -vv.-:-: . George von Skal, one of the most active agents of the Greman propa- tic as Viereck;'' . ! . . Vx ; "We are convinced" that' "Presi dent Wilson Is pro-British, and that Is the reason we are going to vote against him,. Justice Hughes, there fore, will have the support ' ot the German-American Democrats ana Republicans, and I think he will be elected."- .v. ' .?.. Alphonse Koelble, of the German American Alliance, who helped to manage tbe congressional campaign in behalf of the Gore and McLemore resolutions, is no less exultant than Mr. Viereck and Mr. von 8kal: : "I am certain that Justice Hughes J will, grow' as the campaign advances. and that the chances of Mr. Wilson being elected are exceedingly slim." . Gustav Mayer, publisher of , the German Dally Gazette, said In a speech at Philadelphia Sunday! "We suggested some weekf ago V that Hughes was the most logical mart, slid with his selection and that of Fairbanks the entire country, will rally to the support of the Republi can ticket." hv..-,r;--. The Cincinnati Volksbtatt ; sayi "the nomination Is a splendid one," and the Cleveland Wachter und An aelger commends Mr. Hughes while atUcking President Wilson and CoL Roosevelt: .-: ; ; "We consider It a great boon of the Chicago .. convention that v the people of the United States will not be compelled, to chooso between the present leader in unneutral sub ser vlence to England and the. advocate of still greater nnneutrallty." U ' In the opinion of , the Cincinnati . Freie Presse "Justice Hughes has expressed sentiments which are la . accord , with the German-American idea of neutrality. We are In thor ough sympathy with him and his leahTd.aotdInT'tir,thev St.-" Louis Westliche Post "The Repub lican party faced a gigantic prob lem and found a glorious solution." In a lengthy editorial tbe New. York : Herald, a villainous Prussian organ, cautions tbe Germans "not to overdo our ousiness, nor mase the mistake of working-too openly , for Hughes. . ;. , , f. Ci : , The Republican party las reckon- ed without Us host. I. The personal character ' and honorable antece dents of Charles Evana Hughes will not save it. If it wanted to rant and - , cant about "Americanism" to yawp -and yelp about "Preparedness,'--to play the Jingo and the bully -:lt should have taken Roosevelt. What" ever Wilson may have done amiss,' . or left undone, before the world he . stands as the American Republic, and his rejection at the polls cdutd . only mean in the eyes of Europe tne repudiation' of the government i by . the people, which' in turn ; would , mean the repudiation of the people -by themselves! : o - ' Cvatthing In. : ''itfi-.lkf--. Carl W. Vrooman. ' : , Farmers need to know howv to -make the science of agriculture boost ' V the business of farming. " The farmer who robs his soil Ts sawing off the limb upon which Tie la sitting. ' -: The farmer who sells all h(a crops ,' and then burns all his cornstalks and straw reminds one of the burglar '. .' who takes all the valuables be can'", carry oft and sets fire to what is left. When you break even on ' your :.? beeves you are ahead of the game . provided you save manure espec- '. lallr if von hare kpDt hoes folinwinar' v ins cttuic. t-jt4.-.-. Tl l , . i , . . . . with profit la largely a matter of es ing roughage as silage, or bedding the stuff that is wasted on the aver- ' ; .. naTj I a UJ . 5 5?. -j." Weeds and weed seed, usually' ! counted worse than nothing, may pa H u V yni HID llui B1UV Ul iuc ivuser vj .- means of a few sheep. ' 1 ' Catch but one bad ear in testing seed corn and you save a good day's ' wages. Find the average number of bad ones and you save a week's wa-V , ges in a winter's afternoon. Buying J seed Is a business proposition not an exercise of faith. f - - Playing on Her Innocence. ; o' Mrs. Youugbrlde I'm getting our . ice from a new man now, dear, t r. Mr. Youngbride What's wrong"- ' with the other man? ', . ' . x' . Mrs. Youngbride The'new dealer ;'r-: says he'll give us colder ice .for the .. same money. Boston .Transcript. f.i The archbishop had . preached a ; fine sermon on "Married Life and Its Duties.", Two old Irish women were -heard coming out of church com- -men ting on the address. -" , : . . "It's a fine" sermon his reverence wonld be after giving us, said one ' td the others ' . ... , Tt is. Indeed, was.the "quick re ply, t'and: l ,wlsh T knew as little a bout the matter as he does.'';1. vjoia the Ilbrar. tOi.Tr fl.n f year dues. :C1y yci t' -of a good readlrT ro- if partmc-' i c : I