Life — July 30, 1914 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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JULY 3, 191¢ ‘* While there ts Life there's Hope" Published by LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY J. A. Mivcuent, Pres’t. ENERAL HUERTA has retired from office with his personal ma- chinery still in good working order, with feeling po- litical obituaries in some of the Republican papers, and with a great deal more and better reputation than he had when President Wilson first urged him to leave. He and Mr. Wilson have both been rising in popu- lar esteem for a year or more as takers of opposite positions in a dis- pute. People have come increasingly to admire Mr. Wilson for insisting that Huerta should go, and to admire General Huerta for not going. The two Presidents have shown themselves good stickers, and everybody likes a good sticker. Besides that, General Huerta has shown engaging qualities, He pretty well lived down the awkward responsi- bility for having made away with Madero. Villa still remembers about it, but so much is remembered about Villa that it is necessary for him to remember what he can about other folks. Huerta has been shrewd, cheer- ful, democratic and humorous. Villa also is humorous. A show with him and Huerta as end men, and our good William Bryan as interlocutor, was bound to go finely, and would succeed anywhere, especially on the Chautauqua circuit. Particularly we owe General Huerta our thanks for the demonstration he has given of the superiority of man to habits. With Mr. Bryan and Hon. A. Mitten, Sec’y and Treas. 17 West Thirty-first Street, New York English Offices, Rolls House, Breams Bldgs., London, E. C. Jo. Daniels working over-hours to demonstrate that habits maketh the man, and you can unmake him by cutting off his grog, we have had for a year this disillusionizing picture of General Huerta cheerfully flitting from café to café, consuming, appar- ently, several gallons of hard liquor a day, and yet maintaining a stubborn and resourceful composure in a situation of the utmost difficulty and peril. F course it is good news that he is out. His exit does not vindi- cate Mr. Wilson's policy, but it helps it along. For our part, we never could see any prospect for substantial improvement in Mexico under Huerta and the Cientificos. The outlook for improvement under the Constitution- alists is better, albeit hedged in with all manner of dubious possibilities. “Watchful waiting” seems to have established it as a fact that govern- ment in Mexico cannot succeed with- out the recognition of the United States. That should be a ‘check on revolutionaries and a help to orderly proceedings. Villa is the Mexican Big Stick, so far as can be seen, Govern- ment in Mexico must rest for the pres- ent not only on force, but on a force in sight. The most ible force seems to be Villa. If he behaves well, gov- ernment may be established with the minimum of anguish. What will hap- pen if he behaves ill may be left to conjecture until further news. But he is a good fighter, with a lot of very competent soldiers under him, and if he insists upon having order in Mexico the disorderly elements will have to be pretty spry to keep ahead of him. The only kind of public opinion that is useful as yet in Mexico is the in- carnate kind that walks on two legs when it doesn’t ride. Villa looks from this distance like the incarnate public opinion that is back of the Constitu- tionalists, a shrewd, stubborn person who can use his understanding and who seems, with the help, apparently, of General Angeles, to understand a great deal more than any reasonable observer could expect. R. BRYAN admits in a public declaration that he is for woman suffrage now and forever. E pluribus William! We congratulate the suf- frage ladies on one of the greatest intakes since the Dutch captured Hol- land. Mr. Champ Clark is a great suffragist, and no doubt Secretary Josephus Daniels is of that mind, and may at any time order instruction on the subject to be given to the navy. The cause is getting on. It will hardly gain much, however, from the discourse which Mr. Bryan gave out in support of his position. He says in it that at one time he inclined to leave the suffrage question to women to decide, but as to that has come to feel in sympathy with Dr. Samuel Johnson's remark that “no man’s conscience can tell him the right of another man”, But if no man’s conscience can tell him about the right of women to vote, why not leave it to the women to decide? Brother Bryan's citation did not seem tc support his case. Of course Mr. Bryan and Mr. Clark are for votes for women. They are great shepherds of voters, and the more votes there are the greater is their office. It is an instinct with