The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1913-08-29
REJECTS GOOD OFFICES
huerta Government Not Awake
to Its Great Peril.
MUST WAIT WITH PATIENCE

Americans In Warning Country Will
Be Assisted to Leave and Strict
Neutrality Will Be the Policy of
the United States in Dealing With
Affairs of Our Strife Ridden Sister
Republic.
Washington, Aug 28.-President
Wilson appeared in person before
congress and laid bare to the world
the details of this nations efforts to
bring about peace in Mexico; the
acts concerning Huerta's rejection of
the peace proposals and the policy to
be pursued now by this government.
The message follows:
Gentlemen of the Congress-:
1T is clearly my duty to lay before
you very fully and without reserva-
ton the facts concerning our present
relations with the republic of Mexi-
CO. The deplorable condition of af-
fairs in Mexico 1 need not describe,
but deem it my duty to speak very
frankly of what this government has
done and should seek to do in fulfill
ment of it's obligation to Mexico her.
self as friend and neighbor, and to
Americas citizens whose lives and
vital interests are daily affected by
the distressing conditions 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 wildly and more con-
stantly 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 determination Of our duty.
Friendship Is UnseIfish.
I'VE are glad to call ourselves the
friends of Mexico, and we shall,
hope, have many an occasion, in hap
pier times as we'll as in these days Of
trouble and confusion, to show that
our friendship is genuine and disin-
terested, capable of sacrifice and
every generous manifestation.
"The peace, prosperity and con-
tentment of Mexico mean more, much
more, to us than merely an enlarged
field for our commerce and enter
prise. They mean an enlargement of
the field of self-government and the
realization Of the hopes and rights OF
a nation with whose best aspirations
we deeply sympathize. We shall yet
prove to the Mexican people that we
know how to serve them without first
thinking how we shall serve our
selves.
"But we are not the only friends Of
Mexico. The whole world desires her
peace and progress, and the whole
world is interested as never before.
Mexico lies at last where all the
world looks on. Central America is
about to be touched by the great
routes of the worlds trade and in
tercourse running free from ocean to
ocean at the isthmus. The future has
much In store for Mexico, as for all
the states of Central America; but
the best gifts can come to her only
If she be ready and free to receive
them and to enjoy them honorably.
Sees Great Future.
"America in particular-America
north and south, and upon both con
tinents-waits upon the development
Of Mexico; and that development can
be sound and lasting only If it be the
product, Of a genuine freedom, a just
and ordered government, founded up
on law. Only so can it be peaceful or
fruitful of the benefits of peace. Mex
leo has great and enviable future
before her, if only she choose and at
tain the paths of honest constitutional
government.
''The present circumstances Of the
republic, I deeply regret to say, do
not seem to promise even the founda-
tons of such peace. We have
waited many months, months full of
peril and anxiety, for the conditions
there to improve and they have not
improved. They have grown worse,
rather. The territory in some sort
controlled by the provisional authori-
ties at Mexico City has grown small
err, not larger. The prospect of the
pacifcation of the country, even by
arms, has seemed to grow more and
more remote and it's pacifcation by
the authorities at the capital is evil
IDENTIFY impossible by any other means
than force. ....s.. .t. t:. ~, -.-ssaa
difficulties more and more en-
tangle those who claim to constitute
the legitimate government Of the ~