Smith, of Arizona, a Democratic
member of the committee, at once
said that intervention of the kind
proposed should be first tried out in
Mexico, where the need for a re
stored stability was so much more
obvious. Mr. Smith’s declaration
does not reflect the views of his as
sociates, but it has called pointedly
to their attention the deductions
that may be drawn from the Amer
ican policy in Nicaragua and ap
plied to the American policy in Mex
ico. And this connection between
American relations to the two coun
tries was emphatically asserted in
Senator Borah’s denunciation of the
proposed Nicaraguan treaty as a
plan to carry the flag of the United
States from the Rio Grande to the
Panama Caital.
“The Democrats,’’ said one Sena
tor, “hav. e for many years been as
sailing Republicans fox’ America’s
foreign posessions. Now in this
treaty their whole policy is reversed.
