El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-08-27


Facts without Reservation
Gentlemen Of the congress:
1t is clearly my duty to lay before
you very fully and without reservation
the facts concerning our present rela-
/ tons with the republic of Mexico The
deplOrable posture of affairs in Mexico
I need not describe, but I deem it my
duty to speak very frankly of what this
government has done and should seek
to do in fulfinment of its obligation to
Mexico hereafter. as friend and
neighbor, and to American citizens
whose lives and vital interest 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-
instinct of neighbOrly interest and
sympathy is aroused and quickened by
them; but that is only one element in
the determination Of our duty.
Friends of Mexico.
We are glad to call ourselves the
friends of Mexico, and We shall, I 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 DISTINGUISHED,
capable Of sacrifice and every generous
manifestation The peace, prosperity
and contentment Of Mexico mean more,
larged field for our commerce and en-
terprises- They mean an enlargement
of the field of self-gOYernment and the
realization of the hopes and rights Of
so long suppressed and disappointed,
we deeply sympathize-
We shall yet prove. to the Mexican
people that we know how to serve them
without first thinking how We shall
World Desires Peace
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 Intercourse running
from ocean to ocean at the 1sthmus-
The future has much in store for Mex
leo, as for all the states OF Central
America but the best gifts can come
to receive them and to enjoy them hon
orably.
Must Be Founded on Law.
America in particular-America north
and south and on both continents
waits on the development on Mexico;
and that development can be sound ana
lasting only if it be the product of
genuine freedom, a Just and ordered
government, founded on law. Only so
can il be peaceful or fruitful of the
benefits of peace. Mexico has q great
and enviable future. If only she choose
and attain the paths of honest consu-
Conditions Have Grown Worse.
The present circumstances of the re-
public, I deeply regret to say, 90 not
seem to promise even the foundations
months months full of peril and
anxiety, for the conditions there TO I'M
prove, and they have not improved
They have grown worse, rather. The
territory in some sort controIeo Dy Ine
provisional authorities at Mexico City
has grown small, not larger. me
prospect of the pacificauon or the
country, even by arms, mas seemed TO
grow more and more remote ana us
pacificatfon by the authorities at the
capital is evidently impossible by any
other means than force. Difficulties
more and more entangle those who claim !
to constitute the leglumate govern
ment of the republic They nave not |
made good to their claim in fact Their |
in the field have proved only /
War and disorder, devasta- !
ton and confusion, seem mo- TO threaten
to become the settled fortune or the /
distracted country
Duty to Offer Assistance.
As friends. We could not wait longer /
for solution which every week /
seemed further away. 1t was our duty
AFT least to volunteer our good offices /
to offer to assist, If we might. in 4
7ffecting some arrangement which /
would bring relle1 ana peace ana set up
4 universally acknowledged political
authority there.
Accordingly, I took the liberty of
ending the Hon John Lind, formerly
Governor of Minnesota, as my personal
pol1esman and representative to the
itv of Mexico, with the following in
tructiOns:
Tind's Instructions From Wilson.
Press very earnestly on the at
ention of those who are now exercis-