The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-24
GENERAL HUERTA
ISSUESSTATEMENT
Of HIS INTENTIONS
Saws He Will Use Power
Only to Establish
Peace
MEXICO UNSUITED TO
AMERICAN METHODS
Must Be Permitted to Settle Own Al
fairs Without Interference-Re-
fers Respectfully to President
of the United States

OF TIE OultSu A0hotNf'
Mexico City. October 25.-Gen. Vic
foriano Huerta, provisional President
of Mexico. made a statement today
which was afterward read in the pres
ence of all the members of the diplo-
matte corps and the cabinet ministers.
In this statement General Huerta gave
his most solemn assurance that the
sole use he has made. or will make,
of his power as interim President, is,
first,S to establish peace in the re-
public, and, second, to comply with the
law of his country in holding fair cleo
tons, so that the choice of the Mexican
people, whover it may be, shall be
installed in power,
General Huerta said his government
was determined at all costs to pro-
tect the lives and interests of foreign
ers in Mexico, but that the govern
ment was equally determined that the
domestic affairs of Mexico shall be
settled by the Mexicans themselves
Refers to Wilson
II referred to the President of the
United States in terms of the greatest
respect and expressed unbounded ad-
imitation for the people and lnstitu-
1ions of the United States. He pointed
out with great emphasis that the diff
ference between the people of Mexico
and the people of the United States was
a difference so inherent and funda
mental in the character of the two races
as to make it entirely impossible to
apply to the people of Mexico American
methods in the evolution of a demo-
cratic government for his country.
General liuerta emDha sized his be-
lief that when peace had been restored
IN Mexico, and after a lapse of some
little time, the people of Mexico, hav
ing paid dearly for the experience of
The last three years, probably would be
more able than ever before to express
their preference by the ballot and abide
by the result of that ballot. He believed
in the future of his people and that the
time was not far distant when mil
lions of Mexicans would vote upon the
great questions affecting the govern
ment of their country
It must be clearly understood, he
stated, that from the standpoint of rep
resentative government where the
masses have a right to and do express
their opinions at the polls, Mexico
never has had a government by the
people. In the sense in which there is a
democracy in Great Britain, Germany,
France and the United States, there is
not, and never has been, a democracy
in Mexico.
THE best government Mexico has
ever had" continued General Huerta
has been a government by the few
and 1t was long time before Mexico
was able to have any other kind of gov
ernment. 1t will require many years to
bring the country to point where mil
lions of men will be able to go to the
polls and cast an intelligent ballot and
abide by the result of that ballot
Want Government Suited to Mexico
What the people of the whole world
want for Mexico is not that 1T shall
have a government fashioned upon the
lines of the governments of England,
United States, Germany and France,
but government adapted to the needs
of the people of Mexico, satisfactory to
the people of Mexico and able to main :
tain the peace of the country and pro.
tect the vast interests which foreign
nations have at stake in the country
las it is impossible to impose The will
of any foreign country upon the Mex
Jean people except by force the logical
course of all the governments of the
world, especially the government of the
United states is that they shall give
TO the government for the time being
in Mexico their recognition and moral
support in the efforts which that gov
ernment is putting forward for tho
protection of lives and interests of for
eigDers including Americans, through
out the country.
1T has not been many years since
nearly 2,000000 Americans were in arms
against each other The government oi
the United States at that time had a
right to expect, and had the pleasure OF
receiving the moral support of the entire
world in its effort to resore order. The
United States established a central au
thority at Washington over the entire
country and the people of Mexico mus
feel the same the people of America
would have felt If any foreign nations
support of the government OF the United
States had depended upon the elimination
of Lincoln as President.
II believe the officials at Washington
have no right to commit 80, 600, 600 of Amer
leans to a course which will be as un
just as 1t will be disastrous to thei
country.
Difficulties of Election
The elections are to be held October &c
and under the laws of Mexico, it il
necessary for majority of all the voting
precincts in the republic to send in thei
election returns. 1t is possible that il
a great part of the republic, the presen
disturbances may prevent the people from
having an opportunity to vote, and i
is not unlikely that when the returns
are received in November, it may b.
found that less than the legal numbe
of precincts have expressed their choic,
at the polls.
In this event, the constitution settle
the problem by calling for new election
and in the meantime the defacto gov
ernment in Mexico must continue.
General Huerta expressed the nope tha
in such event the government at Wash
irgton would recognize his government
and lend him such support that he woul,
be able to pacify the country, continu
TO meet all it's foreign and domestic oh
legations and be able to protect the live
of Americans and other foreigners II
Mexico. AT the same time he declare,
he would not tolerate interference in th
internal policy OF Mexico and that th
will of no foreign nation could be i'm
posed upon the republic except by force
Should the United States fail to rec
ognize the established Mexican govern
ment, General Huerta declared it woul,
incur the risk of preciptating in this coun
try, crisis which might bring Washing
ton face to face with the government
ut London, Paris and Berlin, and which
might lead either to the setting aside o
the Monroe doctrine or to the appalin.
injustice OF Intervention by the Unite,
states in Mexico. bringing two friendl,
nations into hostile conflict which TIN
people of neither country wish and whicl
ought To be avoided.