Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-11-10
DECLA ARES HUERTA
HOPE OF MEXICO
Mai. Gillette Insists There Is
No Cause for United States
Intervention.

Challenging President Wilson to point
out any possible cause for Intervention
in Mexico except the desire to Gust Gen.
Huerta, Maj. Cassius +. Gillette. L. S.
L.. retired, reviewed conditions in the
southern republic before a large audi
ence at the Beiasco Theater last night.
Mai Gillette placed the responsibility
for what he termed the Presidents mis-
taken Mexican policy on lack of knowl-
edge Of the facts of the situation.
Maj Gillette's lecture was a general
plea for more stable conditions in Mex
leo and FOR the protection Of American
and foreign interests there. Speaking OF
his own interest, he said that he own
ed farm in Mexico and a part of
mine. He declared that he thought he
was as much justified in trying to pro-
tect that interest for the benefit OF his
family as was Secretary Bryan in deliv-
ering chautauqua lectures.
Terms Demands Impossible.
President Wilson'S four original de-
mands on Gen. Huerta We're taken up in
order by Maj Gillette, and each declared
to be impossible of fulfIlment. These
stop Immediately in all parts of the re-
public that an armistice be arranged
between the contendins forces that
fair and free election be held, and that
Gen. Huerta give UP his power, would
never have been made if Mexican condi-
lions We're understood here, he said.
Maj. Gillette told III detail of condi-
tons in Mexico at present and during
the latter part of the Diaz and Madero
regimes. declaring that the great mass
Of MeXiCans are utterly unfit for self
government and that strong man like
Huerta is necessary to maintain order IN
the country. He added that most OF the
men in the present revolution are merely
bandits and briaandS, who do not want
TO see peace restored.
The forces that have been in control
Of Durango for many MONTHS said Maj.
Gillette, consist of four bands. The
largest is in command of man who
has been cattle thief for years, his
name being used by nurses to scare chill
dren. He can neither read nor write
The second is a common farmland peon,
ignorant and savage: the other two, / be
lieve, can read and write.
II was told by a cultured and refined
American woman just from Durango
that if a rap came at tile front door Of
any house and if il We're not instantly
opened, bomb blew it open One Eng
liShman got to the door just as the bomb
went off. taking his legs with il.
Proposed to Arm Them.
These are the people whom our Con-
gress proposed to help get arms. The
President alone holds out against it, Only
the other day Senator Bacon Of Georgia
chairman of the Senate foreign relations
committee, told the President that only
their personal considera ton for him kept
the Senate from passing a resolution
al Olfri p IN he free 10 nf u fn he
revolutonistS.
Suppose that in our land the north
and south We're separate countries and
that the south had eleven and one-half
millions of negroes equal III character To
the lower half of the present black race.
against three million whites and that
they had been started on the warpath
by millionaire criminal or fool-that
they had one-third OF the country under
their control and We're destroying every
thing that stood in the way Of making
an African jungle of the country.
Il wonder how Senator Bacon would
feel II the north should propose to let the
negroes get free arms. Especially if the
conditions in the south We're such that
no white man could have any hope OF
handling il unless he laid himself open
to being called a dictator All assassin
a traitor and a few of the other terms
that have been applied to Gen. Huerta.
Refused to Hear Him.
Maj. Gillette said that his efforts to
impart information TO Senator Bacon and
other government officials here had met
with repeated rebuffs. He said that Sena-
tor Bacon had refused even to listen to
him, and had admitted 10 him that he
had not read q memorial sent here by
group Of prominent Americans who
have lived III Mexico for a number of
years
Speaking of the constitutionalists IN
Mexico Maj Gillette said that II Gen.
Carranza, their leader should BE- made
President OF Mexico tomorrow he would
have exactly the same problem as Gen.
Huerta now has against 80 per cent OF
the revolutionists. 1t is impossible to
hold these people together, he said, except
with force.
Maj Gillette declared that the United
States should recognize Gen. Huerta and
his government and give him every as
s!stance IN putting down tie revolution
in Mexico.