In Mexico the outlook grows more and more stormy. The
latest nese shows that very little advance towards a com- promise is being made by the mediators who are discussing events at Niagara, while, on the other hand, the reports of the eplit between General Carranza and General Villa would appear to promise yet another distracting element in a country in which the cup of distraction seemed already full and running over. President Wilson has hitherto looked upon the rebels as likely to supply a substitute for the
bloodstained" Huerta whom he could recognize; but if they are to play the Kilkenny cats, and if Huerta is still to be under the absolute ban of the United States, unfortunate Mexico would seem to be doomed to the hell of illimitable insurrection and anarchy. From such a situation what outlet is there but armed intervention by America ? And yet President Wilson is no doubt perfectly sincere when he tells us that America Must not interfere with the internal. affairs of Mexico. A more perplexing or hopeless situation it would be difficult to conceive.
