Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1913-09-03
HANDS Of z IS.
WILSON POLICY.
4 Nonintervention and Neutrality
"a Toward Mexico.
TO PROTECT ALL AMERICANS

SSS| 10 PROTECT ALL AMERICANS
Presidents Message Declares Fighting
Factionists Are to Be Held to
if s3 Strict Responsibility for Safe. a
guard Il of d Foreioners--.3t3;5s i
i3s Americans Urged to 4.
Leave. NJ
Washington, D. c., Aug. s28.-Presi
dent Wilson appeared in person be
fore congress and laid bare to the
3, world the details Of this nations ef
NV forts to bring about peace in Mexico
the facts concerning Huerta's rejec.
tion of the peace proposals and the
policy to be pursued by this govern
n ment. II rs
The massage was distinctly specific
as8s5i In tone and contains little in the way
a IL OF Recommendation for future policy
VII except the single one that this govern
III ment must urge earnestly that all
a Americans should leave Mexico at
B once and that the United States
should assist them to get out Of Next
co in every way possible. 81
The president counsels delay before
further action is taken, and says:
Impotence Would BE Childish. 81.
ss 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
VI leo or upon our own, of the effort to
bring order out Of the confusion by
friendly cooperative action, should
y fortunate occasion Offer 555
3s5s So long as the misunderstanding
8 continues we can only await the time
Of their awakening to a,realization to
4 the actual facts. We cannot thrust
our good Aohlces upon them. The stu
ssation must be given a 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
4 inevitably bring its own alterations in
\ the whole aspect Of affairs. The actual
4 situation Of the authorities at Mexico
& City will presently be revealed" N n
Powers Gives ". s. Moral Support. #
President W ilson's message Is unex-
Z pectedly brief and closes with the
\ statement that several Of the great
Il governments Of the world have given
B the United States their generous moral
i support in urging on the provisional
x authorities at Mexico City the &C
ceptance OF our pronered good Offices
an the spirit in which they were made.
\ The president relates the: circum-
I stances leading up to the Lind mission
and all the facts In connection with It.
Text Of Presidents Message. n
The message follows: 81
g entlemen OF the Congress: It is,
clearly my duty to lay before you very
q fully and without reservation the facts
concerning our present relations with
he#republic OF Mexico. The deploIa-
I BILE posture Of affairs In Mexico 4 need
mot deacrlbe, but ! deem It my duty to
speak very frankly Of what this gov
ernme emit has done and should seek to
do ii fulhllment Of Its obligation to
Mexico herself, az . friend and neigh
J Dor. and to American citizens whose
lives and vital Interests are daily af-.
#fected BY the Distressing condition
which now obtain beyond our south
Sern border 4 4 4. " 1. III
q. s. ! Friend Of Mexico.
Those conditions touch us very
nearly. Not merely because they lie
rs:sour very doors. That, OF course,
kes us more wildly and more con-
,Antly 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, i hope. have
many an occasion. in happier times as
well as in these days OF trouble and
confusion. to show that our friendship
Is genuine and disinterested, capable
OF sacrifice and very generous mani
Hesitation. The peace, prosperity. and
scontentment Of Mexico mean more,
much more, to US. than merely an en-
flRrged field for our commerce and en-
5terprise. They mean an enlargement
of the field OF self government and
the realization Of hopes and rights Of
q 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
her peace and progress, and the whole
world Is interested as never before.
Mexico lies at last where all the world
looks on: Central America ia about
to be touched by the great routes OF
the worlds trade and intercourse run
ming free from ocean to ocean at the
lsthmus. The future has much in
store for Mexico, as for all the states
of Central America, but the best gifts
can come to her only it she be ready,
and free to receive them and to enjoy
them honorably. America in particu- ,
lar---America, North and South, and
upon both continents waits upon the ]
development Of Mexico; and that de-
velopment can be sound and lasting
only If 1t be the product of genuine
freedom, a just and ordered govern 1
ment' founded upon law. And so can [
1t be peaceful and fruitful of the bene-
TITS Of peace. Mexico has great and [
enviable future before her, II only she
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