Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1913-09-05
urges AMERICANS
TO LEAVE MEXICO
President Recommends Isolation
of Republic and a Patient
Policy.
is ADVISED

uu.r+a "slnauIariy Isolated" - Result
If unfortunate misunderstanding"
Which Led Him to Reject Friendly
overtures Brought by Lind-Can-
not Constitute Ourselves Umpire
in Observation-Disclosures Must
Be Protected.
Washington, ARss 2S.-Emphasizing
eba fact that the United States must
canaan the firm friend of the people
~ Mexico in their present stress and
trouble, President Wilson today read
his long-awaited message on Mexican
affairs to congress.
The massage was distinctly specific
IN tone and contains little in the way
of recommendation for future policy
except the single one that this govern
ment must urge earnestly that all
4 Americans should leave Mexico at
once and that the United States
should assist them to get out Of Next
co in every way possible.
The president counsels delay before
further action Is taken, and says:
lmpatience Would Be Childish.
"Impatience on our part would be
childish and would be frought with
every risk of wrong and folly The
door is not closed against the resump-
ton, either upon the initiative of Mex
leo or upon our own, of the effort to
bring order out Of the confusion by
friendly cooperative action, should
fortunate occasion offer.
so long as the misunderstanding
continues we can only await the time
of their awakening to realization to
the actual facts. We cannot thrust
our good offices upon them. The stu
alton must be given little more time
to work itself out in the new circum-
stances, and believe that only little
while will be necessary. The circum-
stances are new The rejection Of our
friendship makes them new and will
inevitably bring its own alterations in
the whole aspect of affairs. The actual
situation of the authorities at Mexico
City will presently be revealed"
Text of Presidents Message.
The message follows:
Gentlemen of the Congress-: 1t u
clearly my duty TO lay before you very
fully and without reservation the facts
concerning our present relations with
the republic Of Mexico. The deplora-
bic posture of affairs in Mexico need
not describe, but deem it my duty to
speak very frankly of what this gov
eminent has done and should seek to
do in fulfllment Of its obligation to
Mexico herself, as friend and neigh
Dor, and to American citizens whose
lives and vital interests are daily at
fected by the distressing condition
which now obtain beyond our south
Hrn border
U. S. Friend of Mexico.
Those conditions touch us very
nearly. Not merely because they lie
at our very doors. That, of course,
makes US more wildly and more con-
stantly conscious of them, and every
instinct of neighborly interest and
sympathy is aroused and quickened by
them; but that is only one element In
the determination of our duty. We
are glad to call ourselves the friends
OF Mexico, and we shall, hope, have
many an occasion, in happier times, as
we'll as in these days of trouble and
confusion, to show that our friendship
Is genuine and disinterested, capable
Of sacrifice and very generous mani
festation. The peace. prosperity, and
contentment of Mexico mean more,
much more, to us. than merely an en-
laTged field for our commerce and en-
tefprise. They mean an enlargement
OF the field of self-goyernment and
The realization of hopes and rights of
nation with whose best aspirations,
TOO long suppressed. and disappointed,
We deeply sympathize. We shall yet
prove to the Mexican people that we
know how to serve them without first
thinking how we shall serve ourselves.
World Wants Mexican Peace.
But we are not the only friends
OF Mexico. The whole world desires
ner peace and progress, and the whole
world is interested as never before.
Mexico lies at last where all the world
LOOKS on. Central America is about
10 De touched by the great routes of
Tue worlds trade and intercourse run
RIhg free from ocean. to ocean at the
sthmus. The future has much in
STORE for Mexico, as for all the states
u central America, but the best gifts
'an come to her only If she be ready
a'Hts Tree to receive them and to enjoy
mem Eonorably. America in particu-
America, North and South, and
upon both continents-waits upon the
SeVelopmeht of Mexico; and that de-
'e,opment can be sound and lasting
'uiy II 1t be the product of a genuine