Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-08-22
WILSON TO READ OWN
MESSAGE ON MEXICO
Continued from First Pase.)

ference. In this event, the latter will
more likely be the course adopted.
and so far as this country is con-
cerned. the warning factions in
Mexico will probably be left to fight
out their differences to finish.
without any embargo to prevent
either side getting all the guns and
ammunition from the United States 1t
can afford to buy.
Two weeks ago the Star announced
the essentials of the administration
policy with regard to Mexico to-:be
about as above set out. 1t remains
the same today.
lingo Effort Falls Flat
Senator Penrose's jingoistic demand
that Congress appropriate $4,000, 900
to send troops into Mexico to pro-
tect American lives and property is
not likely to be taken seriously by
the Senate. The efforts of Penrose
and Senator William Alden Smith to
force war measures and arouse war
feeling in the country seem to nave
fallen rather fiat. Smiths presenta-
ton of reports showing the sn1ierihss
of American citizens in Mexico, and
the outrages being perpetrated upon
them. rather lost its effect When IL
became apparent that all these re-
ports were a year or more old, and
described conditions during and I'M
mediately following the revolution
which overthrow the Diaz regime
There was a thrilling story print
ed in the newspapers cabled from
Mexico city, telling of how John
Lind had rushed to the President
palace at night, forced an interview
with Huerta and talked him out or
his determination to issue an ultl-
matum to this country, demanding
Immediate recognition and threaten
ing to cut off diplomatic relations II
his demand was not at once granted.
Exciting-If 1t Is True!
The only thing about this exciting
narrative that detracts in any Wa|
from its interest and Importance is
the exceeding probability that 1t
never happened. | have positive as
suranees from men who have read
all the notes and correspondence be-
TWEEN our legation In Mexico and the
state department that there has not
been a word about such an incident
received either from Mr.. Lind or
from Charge d'Affaires Onslaught
nessey. The incident would seem to
have been sufficiently important TO
have been mentioned by one of
these men If they had known Of it.
and the fact that they have not
mentioned It in their dispatches Is
taken by the administration rs Se-
ing fairly good evidence that 1t
didn't happen.
There is considerable qualification
at the White House and the state
department over the emphatic nan
ner in which the Senate yesterday
sat down upon Penrose's war "ao-
ton and talk. Party lines were ig
nored in the matter, and not a SER
ator on the floor had a word to
say in support of the Pennsylvania
mans proposal.
VIII React Upon Huerta.
This fact, 1t is believed by tire
administration, will go far toward
toning down the jingoistic attitude
of Huerta and of the anti-American
papers and politicians in Mexico. 1t
has been freely asserted in that
country, it is understood, that Pres
ident Wilson'S attitude did not rep
resent the sentiment of the Ameri-
can Congress or the American people,
and there is a belief that certain
political and financial interests there
have been encouraging Huerta in
his belligerent attitude By assuring
him that the Senate would not sup
port the administration in it's stand
Yesterdays events in the Senate.
1t is believed, will go far to coun-
teract any such belief in Mexico.
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