England Indignant, Looks To Us To Act.

New York Times 100 years ago today, February 24, 1913:
Newspapers Call Madero's Death Senseless and Barbarous Murder.
MONROE DOCTRINE INVOKED
Express Urges intervention with 100,000 Men — Chronicle Warns Against Temporizing.
Special Cable to The New York Times.
    LONDON, Feb. 23.— The London newspapers show a strong disinclination to accept without question the official account of ex-President Madero's death, and condemn it as a senseless and barbarous murder — an indefensible crime.
    The Times says: "Civilized nations will place their own construction upon the lame and halting story which the successful conspirators who now rule Mexico City have chosen to put out to us. It is by no means convincing."
    The Daily Mail says: "The new Government will scarcely expect the incident to secure the immediate dissolution of the troops which the United States has moved to the Texas boundary. For both humane and political reasons a certain obligation is laid upon the United States Government to compel the restoration of good government in the neighboring republic."
    The Daily Chronicle says: "The effect of the Monroe Doctrine is to throw upon the United States the onus of acting, not only on its own behalf, but on behalf of civilization. Nobody can envy her the task, in approaching which she deserves from Europe no ungrudging measure of moral support." It asserts that Madero was done to death by Huerta , and asks what the United States will do. It thinks that any middle course, such as financial or military propping up of one or the other among the Mexican leaders by the United States and the creation of a sort of Mexican Cuba, could only be achieved by a combination of luck and adroit diplomacy, while an enormous army will be needed to conquer Mexico."
    The Daily News says: "Madero has been murdered and the United States Government is expressing the world's indignation at the treachery which brought the Huerta Administration into office and the ruthlessness with which they are exercising their probably brief tenure of power."
    The Standard says: "Opinion in this country, we imagine, will be wholly sympathetic to any action on which the Washington Cabinet is likely to decide. The United States cannot be expected to put up with a perpetual reign of bloodshed and desolating disorder on its very borders. In a similar position Great Britain would take sharp measures, and we must recognize that the American Cabinet, after exercising much patience, is now faced with a situation which seems to admit but one solution."
    The Daily Express, referring to what it calls President Taft's hesitation to act in Mexico, says that revolution and anarchy do not stand on Presidential etiquette, and that the security of life and property in Mexico will not wait while President-elect Wilson installs himself. The Express describes an expeditionary force of 9,000 American troops as "a pill for an earthquake," and says such a venture will need 300,000 men. It urges the British Government to press the Washington Government for immediate action. "America has been in Mexico before this," says the editorial, and must go there again at once, even if Taft has to disoblige Wilson to the extent of a military legacy."