In any case, Carranza's , power is not great. He dares not
go to his capital for fear of Zapata. A new revolution looms on the horizon under the control of Felix Diaz. Mr. Garrison, who recently ceased to bo War Secretary, has patrotically returned to Washington to help his successor. Congress is unanimous in its opinion—which even Mr. Bryan does not dispute—that action is inevitable. Mr. Wilson says that his plans will bo strictly punitive, and that the sovereignty of Mexico will be scrupulously respected. But is this possible ? It is a case in which events rather than Mr. Wilson will decide. General Funston, who made his reputation in the Philippines and now commands the force which is collecting on the border, takes no light-hearted view of the undertaking. " No use going at this thing half-cocked," he says. Meanwhile he waits for troops. America, we are sorry to say, after all the warnings, is unprepared. Germany, it is reported, is inciting all the Mexican leaders against the United States. Mr. Wilson has given Carranza leave to pursue the Mexican rebels across the American frontier. But probably this means little. Carranza is not likely to arrive there.
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