The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-16
European Powers and Japan
Deliver Joint Note to L. $.
MONROE DOCTRINE INVOLV we'd
To Be Upheld United States
Must Protect Foreign Property
Failing to Do So Powers VIII
Snap Fingers at Doctrine.

Washington. July 16.-Ambassador
Henry Lane Wilson, at Mexico City,
has been summoned to Washington
for an immediate conference with
President Wilson on the Mexico stu
alton. This action is taken to forecast
some important announcement on the
administration attitude toward the
Huerta government
President Wilson today, after an
early conference with Secretary
BRYAN over the latest aspects of the
Mexican situation presented by the in
uuirfes of foreign powers as to the at
titude of the United States, ordered
Ambassador Henry Lane Wilson at
Mexico City to proceed to WasnlnS-
ton for a conference Ambassador
Wilson will hurry north either on the
battleship Michigan or the Louisiana
from Vera Cruz, if any delay would
be entaiIed by waiting for a COM
mercial steamer. Officials here be-
lieVe the interruption of railroad tra1-
fic between Mexico and the United
States will force the ambassador to
make his trip by water He is not
expected here before July 23 at the
earliest 1t is believed in official and
announcement of the attitude OF the
diplomatic circles that an important
announcement of the attitude of the
United States in the pending situation
will follow the ambassadors confer
ence with the president and Secretary
Bryan. The presidents action today.
following closely the unofficial an
nouncement that some of the foreign
powers, which already have recog-
nized the Huerta government were
pressing for some indication of this
governments attitude toward the con-
tinued disorders In Mexico, LEADS 10
that belief.
What Influences at Work.
Secretary Bryan declined to add
anything to his brief announcement
of Ambassador Wilson's call to
Washington. 1t is assumed that the
administration desires to learn from
the ambassador what influences ac-
tuated the foreign diplomatic repre-
sentatives in Mexico when they joint
ly agreed to address their govern |
ment with what amounted to a for |
NAL complaint against the attitude of
the United States in its relations with |
the Huerta regime.
President Wilson has kept an open !
mind on the subject and is thought to |
feel himself bound to adhere to the |
policy he announced early in his ad- |
ministration of lending moral encour- !
agement only to such governments in |
Latin America as were founded upon |
constitutional law and practice. How !
ever, it is understood he is ready to |
give due weight to any representa- |
tions Mr.. Wilson may make.
The president has had the bene- !
fit of private reports from several of |
his personal friends who have /
travelled in Mexico recently, but /
those were unofficial and not Suffi- /
cient to form the basis of formal at /
titude, # there were to be any change /.
in policy. Secretary Bryan was asked
if the coming of Ambassador Wilson
to Washington would change his pro-
jected lecture tour. He replied:
The newspapers might have assum- /
ed that my lecture dates would not in |
fere with business, instead of assuming
that they would.
"An my lecture dates were made |
subject to cancellation"
Foreign Nations Sent Note.
European nations and Japan, led by
Great Britain, have put up fatty to
the Wilson administration, the ques-
tiOn whether it Will solve the Mexican
question by the recognition of Huerta
or otherwise. force a combination
or nations to perform that service for
the world. This fact was known to the
president and the cabinet meeting and
undoubtedly through Ambassador Will
son at Mexico City.
Secretry of State Bryan, while ad-
mitting that he had heard" of this
bonn shell of international politics.
said that it was question he could
not discuss.
state department did not evolve some
plan of solution of the Mexican situa-
ton, Great Britain and Japan and Ger
many would undertake it for the
United States and snap their fingers at
the Monroe Doctrine.
The present movement by the dipIo-
matte corps in Mexico is a intimatlon
to the United States that il must act
as the guardian of western continent
republics or admit that the Monroe
Doctrine is imperative
Is is estimated that Germany has
four billion dollars invested in Mexico
Great Britain has immense properties
there to guard on behalf of her citi-
zens and those two nations having
most at stake, will undoubtedly be
found in the forefront of the new move
ment
Japan has evidently struck with her
own grievances while the iron was hOt
as between Great Britain and the
United States over the Panama canal
affair and in strengthing herself with
the people in Mexico by sending to the
capital of that country new ambas-
sador who had been honored in a signal
way by the Opulace in Mexico Citv
The ambassador himself has, signi-
hcantly enough, arrived just d few
days before the practical ultimatum
was sent out of Mexico Citv to the
United states to act, or that other ma
tiOns would act.
Great Britain lost no time in
recosnlzlng the Huerta government, al
though she knew at the time that it
"ouIo eHDarrass the administration.
To Repeal Neutrality Law.