The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-28
NOTES EXCHANGED
 BETWEEN LIND AND SECRETARY GAMBOA
Mexican Official InduIgeS SarcaS- tic Vein In His Diplomatic RejOinder to President
 Wilson's Envoy

Gamboa, Mexican secretary of state
 for foreign affairs, to John Lind, at Vera Cruz, on the night of August
 26, was made public here, today. It
 follows in part:
 yesterday, I had the honor of re- 1 ceiving from your hands a note in which you are pleased to state that although you have no instructions | from the President of the United States of America, from the scope Of
 note of this government given to you- through me, of the 18th inst. You are pleased to repeat those same in
 structions the paragraph which trans lated says literally:
 ":We wish to act in the present cir ! cumstances under the inspiration of the most lively and wholly dtsinterest- ed friendship. We propose, in all that we do or say by reason of this serious and intricate situation, not only to maintain the most scrupulous l respect for the sovereignty and inde- 1 pendence of Mexico-and we consider ourselves obligated to that respect by all the considerations of honor and right-but as well to give all possible proofs that we are working only in the interests of Mexico and not for any person or group of persons who might have claims relating to them selves with a right to demand their settlement. What we intend is to
  l in the interest of her own peace and
 with no other object of any kind. The government of the United States would consider itself discredited if it had ip
 mind any selfish or u1terior motive considering that the negotiations ip hand concern the peace, welfare and prosperity of a whole people, We are working, not with selfish interest, but
 in accordance with the dictates of our friendship towards Mexico
 adj fIIr fT1aTT T- tial Agent, that the President of the United States of America has author
 ized you to say that if my government acts irnmediately AndS favora'bly upon President will extend to American
 bankers and their associates assur- ances that the government of the
 United States of America will then look with favor upon the extension OF
 an immediate loan sufficient in amount
 present Mexican administration.
 "It appears that, in case the pro-
 posal of His Excel1ency, MT. Woodrow
 Wilson, is not to remove himself
 iota from the position originally as- stunned by him for, notwithstanding the
 time consumed since the 18th. the date
 of my reply, to the 18th, in which you
 delivered to me your second note which I am here answering, the es-
 sence and even the form of his orig
 inal instructions are the same with
 the aggravating feature well qualified by you as more restricted.
 For my part, it would have beer
 sufficient to answer this note in it's totality by reproducing the whole of
 my note of the 18th inst, as negative
 as categorical, as I have the honor
 to reproduce it in this present note. But the President ad interim wishes
 to carry his forbearance to the last
 point and to the end that Mexican
 public opinion, which is unjustly d1s-
 turbed by the present tension in the
 diplomatic relations between the two
 countries and also to the end that
 the various foreign governm ents which
 have offered their good offices in the
 most delicate possible manner! may be
 duly informed, Fand has authorized me to reply to you in the following terms:
 "If your original proposals were not
 to be admitted they are now, in the
 MORE RESTRICTED form in which they are reproduced even more inad- Elissible. Precisely because we com prehend the immense value which is
 assessed by the principle of sover-
 eighty which the government of the United States so sopportunely invokes in tbe question of our recognition or
 non-recognition, precisely for this rea7
 son. we believed that it would never
 be proposed to us that we should
 forget our own sovereignty by per-
 hitting that a foreign governmenr
 should modify the line of conduct
 which we have to follow in our public and indenendent life.
 4"'f even once we were to permit the coUnseIs and advice Get us call
 them thus) of the United States Of
 America not only would we, as say above, forego1 our sovereignty but we would as well compromise for an in
 definite future our deStinies as a, sov- ereign entity and all the future elec- lions for president would be submit ted to this veto of any President of
 the United States of America" Minister Gamboa describes the Mex ! ican constitutional provisions regard ing elections which he declares pre- vent the constitutional ad interim
 President of the Republic from being | a. candidate at the forthcoming cleo tions:
 'If His Excellency. President Will son. he continues, had taken into consideration that paragraph before.
 ditions in question and which we may
 not admit, the present state of affairs l between you and ourselves would have
 been avoided.
 tia1 Agent, that up to the present time,
 at least. only the President of the
 United States of America has spoken of the candidacy of the constitutional ad interim President at the forthcom-
 ing elections
 NelLn0r the solemn QeCldrdL4On O1
 this high functionary nor the most in
 significant of his acts-an of which have been done with a view of obtain
 ing a complete paciication of the coun- try which is the supreme national aim and which he has decided to bring about in spite of everything-have au-
 thorized anyone even to suspect that such are his ultimate intentions.
 The question having been brought forth as I have had the honor of do- ing in this reply, His ExceIlency, MT. Wilson, will have to withdraw defi- nitely from his present attitude at the risk that his motives may be wrongly and differently interpreted by all other nations which look upon our present internal conflict with more or less in