Germans Approve Our Course.

New York Times 100 years ago today, March 2, 1913:
But Think We May Have to Intervene Unless Conditions Improve.
Special Cable to The New York Times.
    BERLIN, March 1.— Nearly a week has passed now since the report of Madero's shooting reached here, but amid the columns of comment thereon in the German press there has not thus far been any anti-American talk or any demand that America intervene.
    This is decidedly noteworthy in view of the fact that a considerable portion of the German press is bitterly anti-American, and none of the papers especially loves America.
    Unimportant revolutions in South America often give occasion for attacks on America for assuming the guardianship over the hemisphere under the Monroe doctrine, and then failing to discharge her duties as such a guardian, but it appears to be pretty generally recognized that the Mexican situation is not one that can be so readily disposed of. Opinion here is unanimous in considering the slaying of Madero coldblooded murder and the official explanations thereof unworthy of the slightest credence.
    The Mexicans are pictured as a half-civilized people, whoso whole history is one of bloodshed, rapine, and all kinds of violence. It is also generally recognised that the United States has been subjected to numberless provocations and direct insults, of which Madero's murder was the latest, but the reasons against American intervention are considered to be overwhelming. It would doubtless mean a long guerrilla warfare and grave political complications. It is felt, however, that the United States may be forced unwillingly to intervene unless affairs change for the better.
    Papers of all shades of opinion have long believed, and have declared, that the whole Mexican revolution was the work of American capitalists. References to the Standard Oil Company and the Morgan and Pearson interests as the cause, are made in the most matter-of-fact manner, as if no possible doubt about it could exist. Despite this, however, there appears to be no disposition to hold the American Government responsible for the alleged acts of its citizens. Government circles are quite tranquil and appear most willing to leave the matter to America's judgment. The conjecture may be hazarded that Germany would not be specially pleased at American intervention, which would eventually give the United States a great advantage commercially in a field which Germany would like to see captured by her traders.