Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1913-08-27
HUERTA'S REPLY TO LIND IS
ALSO GIVEN TO THE PUBLIC

the house adjourned and the senat
filed back to its side of the capitol.
President Wilson. in person, ad
dressed congress today on the Mexican
situation, as follows:
Gentlemen of the Congress: 1t |.
clearly my duty to place before yo,
very fully and without reservation the
facts concerning our present relations
with the republic of Mexico. The de
plorable position of affairs in Mexico |
need not describe, but | deem it my
duty to speak very frankly of what
this government has done and seeks to
/ do in fulfillment of it's obligation to
Mexico hereafter, as friend and
neighbor, and to American citizens
whose lives and vital interests are
daily affected by the distressing condi-
tions which now obtain beyond our
southern border
''These conditions touch us very
nearly; not merely because they lie at
our very doors. That of course, makes
us more vividly and more constantly
conscious Of them, and every instinct
OF neighborly interest and sympathy
is aroused and quickened by them: but
that is only one element in the deter
mination of our duty.
eve are glad to call ourselves the
friends of Mexico, and we shall hope,
have many an occasion, in happier
times as well as in these days of trou-
bic and confusion to show that our
friendship is genuine and disinterest-
ed capable of sacrifice and every gen
perity and contentment of Mexico
mean more, much more to us than
merely an enlarged field for our COM
merce and enterprise. They mean an
of the field of self-govern-
nent and the restitution of the hopes !
and rights of a nation with whose best |
aspirations, so long suppressed and |
we deeply sympathize. !
We shall yet prove to the Mexican
people that we know how to serve !
hem without first thinking how we |
shall serve ourselves.
but we are not the only friends of
iexico The whole world desires her
,eace and progress; and the whole
world is interested as never before.
IeXico lies at last where all the world
ooss on. Central America is about
o be touched by the great routes of
he worlds trade and intercourse run
ing from ocean to ocean at the 18th
nus. The future has much in store
Or Mexico, as for all the states of
,entral America; but the best gifts
an come to her only if she be ready
nd free to receive them and to enjoy
lem honorably. America in particu-
north and south, and on
9th continents-waits on the develop
lent of Mexico; and that development
an be sound and lasting only if it be I
lie product of genuine freedom,
list and ordered government. founded t
n law Only so can it be peaceful or /
uitful Of the benefits9f peace. Mexi-
, ildo q 81 cat cHu Civ iubiC lutVl & pC- j
re her. if only she chose, and attain
lie paths of honest constitutional gov d
'nment. f.
"The present circumstances of the Y
public, deeply regret to say, do not +
em to promise even the foundations a
such a peace. We have waited
any months, months full of peril and r
lxiety, for the conditions there to
lprove, and they have not improved.
ley have grown worse, rather. The
rritory in some sort controlled by
e provisional authorities at Mexico 9
ty has grown smaller, not larger. Il
le prospect of the pacification of the
untry, even by arms, has seemed to
ow more and more remote and it's s.
by the authorities at the a
pital is evidently impossible by any W
her means than force. Difficulties Z
ore and more entangle those who II
aim to constitute the legitimate gov Il
nment of the republic. They have IL
It made good their claim in fact et
,eir successes in the field have prov M
only temporary. War and disorder, di
vastation and confusion, seem to IL
reaten to overthrow the settled for II
ne of the distracted country. AS m
ends we could wait no longer for
solution which every week seemed ;.
rther away. 1t was our duty at least,
volunteer our good offices, to offer
assist, If we might, in effecting
me arrangement which would bring II
lief and peace and set up univer- IN
lily acknowledged political authority al
ere. of
Accordingly, took the liberty of OF
nding the Hon. John Lind, former sp
governor of Minnesota, as my per- re
nal spokesman and representative ia
the City of Mexico, with the follow. pr
! instructions: an
Lind's instructions. On
Press very earnestly on the atten. 10,