The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-08-27
MESSAGE is A PACIFIC ONE
American be Childish,
President Wilson Congress

WASHINGTON, Aug. 27.-Empha-
sizing the fact that the United States
must remain the firm friend of the
people of Mexico in their present trou-
BILE, President Wilson today read his
special message on Mexican affairs to
congress.
The message was distinctly pacific
in tone and contained little in the way
of recommendations for future policy.
except that this government must
earnestly urge that all Americans
should leave Mexico Immediately and
that the United States government
should assist them to get out of Mex
leo in every way possible.
CounseIs Delay In Action.
The president counsels delay before
further action is taken and says:
"Impatience on our part would be
childish and would be frought with ev-
cry risk of wrong and folly. The door
is not closed against the resumption
either upon the initiative of Mexico or
upon our own, of the effort to bring
order out of confusion by friendly Co
operative action should fortunate oc-
casion offer.
so long as the misunderstanding
continues, we can only await the time
of their awakening to a realization of
the actual facts. We cannot thrust our
good offices upon them. The situation
must be given a little more time to
work itself out New circumstances
are created by the rejection of our
friendship, but they inevitably will
bring alterations in the whole aspect
of affairs The actual situation of the
authorities at Mexico City will present
ly be revealed"
World Gives Moral Support.
President Wilson's message closes
with the statement that several of the
great governments of the world have
given the United States their gener-
GUS moral support in urging on the pro-
visional authorities at Mexico City, the
acceptance of our good offices in the
spirit in which they were made. The
president relates the circumstances
leading up to the Lind mission and
all the facts connected Herewith
The presidents recommendations
are less drastic and less conclusive
than was expected.
After stating that it was clearly his
duty to- lay before congress, very full
ly, the facts concerning our present
relations with the republic of Mexi-
CO, the president says:
The depIorable state of affairs in
Mexico need not describe, but deem
it my duty TO speak very frankly OF
what this government has done and
should seek to do in fulfllment of its
obligations TO Mexico herself. and to
American citizens whose lives and vi
tai interests are daily effected by the
distressing conditions which now OBJ
tain beyond our southern border"
Peace Not In Prospect.
The president further states that he
regrets to say that the present cir
cumstances of the Mexican republic
do not seem to promise even the foun-
dations of peace.
We have waited months and months,
full of peril and anxiety. for conditions
there to improve. They have rather
grown worse The territory controll-
ed by the provisional authorities at
Mexico City has grown smaller in
stead of larger. The prospects of the
pacification of the country even by
arms has seemed to grow more re-
mote. Their successes in the field
have proved only temporary War and
disorder. devastation and confusion,
saeu1 IN threaten fo heeorpa the 81.
tied fortune of the distracted country.
As friends we could wait no long
er for solution IL was our duty at
least to volunteer our good offces, the