The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1913-09-04
HANDS OFF, IS
WILSON'S POLICY
Noninterventinn and Neutrality
Toward Mexico.
TO PROTECT ALL AMERICANS
Presidents Message Declares Fighting
Factionists Are to Be Held TO
Strict Responsibility for Safe
guard Of Foreigners
Americans Urged to
leave

Leave.
Washington, d. c., Aug. 2S.-Presi-
dent Wilson appeared in person be.
fore congress and laid bare to the
world the details OF this nations eff.
forts to bring about peace in Mexico,
the facts concerning Huerta's rejec-
ZION OF the peace proposals and the
policy to be pursued by this govern.
ment.
The massage was distinctly specific
in tone and contains little in the way
OF recommendation for future policy
except the single one that this govern
ment must urge earnestly that all
Americans should leave Mexico at
once and that the United States
should assist them to get out OF MeXi.
GO In every way possible.
The president counsels delay before
further action is taken, and says:
lmpatience Would Be Childish.
Impatience on our part would be
childish and would be frought with
every risk of wrong and folly. The
door is not closed against the resump
ton, either upon the initiative of Mex
leo or upon our own. of the effort to
bring order out of the confusion by
friendly cooperative action, should
fortunate occasion offer.
so long as the Misunderstanding
continues we can only await the time
OF their awakening 10 a realization 10
the actual facts. We cannot thrust
our good Offices upon them. The stu.
alton must be given little more time
20 work itself out in the new circum
stances and believe that only little
while will be necessary. The circum-
stances are new. The rejection OF our
friendship makes them new and Will
inevitably bring its own alterations In
the whole aspect Of affairs. The actual
situation OF the authorities at Mexico
City viii presently be revealed"
Powers Gives U. s, Moral Support.
President Wilson's message is unex-
pectedly brief and closes with the
statement that several OF the great
governments OF tho world have given
the United States their generous moral
support in urging on the provisional
authorities at Mexico City the &C
oeptance Of our proffered good Offices
in the spirit In which they were made.
stances leading up to the Lind mission
and all the facts in connection with IT,
Text Of Presidents Message.
The message follows
Gentlemen Of the Congress. 1t is
clearly my duty to lay before you very
fully and without reservation the facts
concerning our present relations with
the republic of Mexico The deplora-
bic posture of affairs In Mexico | need
not describe. but | deem It my duty to
speak very frankly OF what this gov.
ernment has done and should seek TO
do in fulhllment OF its obligation TO
Mexico herself, as a friend and neigh.
Dor. and to American citizens whose
lives and vital interests are daily az.
fected by the distressing condition
which now obtain beyond our south
ern border
U. S. Friend Of Mexico.
Those conditions touch us very
nearly Not merely because they lie
ut our very doors That, of course,
makes III more wildly and more CON
Gtantiy 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. We
are glad to call ourselves the friends
OF Mexico. and we shall | hope, have
manJ All occasion, in happier times. as
well as In these days OF trouble and
confusion. to show that our friendship
IL genuine and disinterested. capable
81 sacrifice and very generous mani.
,estation. The peace. prosperity, and
contentment OF Mexico mean more
much more, to Us. than merely an en-
iarged field for our commerce and en-.
terprise. They mean an enlargement
at the field Of selfgoyernment and
the realization Of hopes and rights OF
nation with whose best aspirations.
too long suppressed, and disappointed.
we deeply sympathi2e We shall yet
prove to the Mexican people that we
know how to serve them without first
thinking how we shall serve ourselves
World Wants Mexican Peace.
But we are not the only friends
n Mexico. The whole world deeires
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
10 be touched by the great routes OF
Che worlds' trade and intercourse run.
ming free from ocean To ocean at the
isthmus. The future has much I'm
store for Mexico, as for all the states
IT Central America. but the best gifts
can come 10 her only II she be ready
and free TO receive them aud TO enjoy
them hoDorably. America in particu.
Tar America North and South, and
upon both continents waits upon the
development Of Mexico; and that de-
veiopmsnt can be sound and lasting
only II 1t be the product OF a genuine
freedom just and ordered govern
ment founded upon law And 30 can
II be peaceful and fruitful Of the bene-
Tits Of peace. Mexico has a great and
enviable future before her, II only she
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