The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1913-09-06
URGES AMERICANS
TO LEAVE MEXICO
President Recommends Isolation
of Republic and a Patient
Policy.
SELF-RESTRAINT IS ADVISED

Huerta "sInauiarly Isolated" ss Result
Of "unfortunate Misunderstanding"
Which Led Him to Reject Friendly
oVertures Brought by llnd-can-
not Constitute Ourselves Umpire
In urbance--Amerieans Must
Be Protected.
Washington. Ate. 2S.LEmphaslzing
the fact that the United States must
remain the firm friend of the people
of 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
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:
impatienee 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 a 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.s 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 y
clearly my duty - lay before you very
fully and without reservation the facts
concerning our present relations with
the republic of Mexico. The deplora-
BILE posture Of affairs in Mexico ! need
not describe, but deem It my duty to
speak very frankly of shat this gov
eminent has done and should seek to
do in fulfillment of it's obligation to
Mexico herself, as friend and neigh
Dor, and to American citizens whose
lives and vital interests are daily al
fected by the distressing condition
which now obtain beyond our south
ern border.
U. S. a Friend Of Mexico.
Those conditions touch us very
nearly. Not merely because they lie
at our very doors. That, OF course
makes us more vividly and more con
stantly conscious of them, and every
instinct Of neighborly interest NAnt
sympathy is aroused and quickeped by
them: but that is only one element II
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, a:
well as in these days of trouble ant
confusion. to show that our friendship
is genuine and disinterested. capable
OF sacrifice and very generous mani
feetation. The peace. prosperity. ant
coutentment of Mexico mean more
much more, to us. than merely an en-
lavged field for our commerce and en-
terprise. They mean an enlargement
OF the field of self-government ant
the realization Of hopes and rights o
q nation with whose best aspirations
too long suppressed. and disappointed
we deeply sympathize. We shall we
prove to the Mexican people that w
know how to serve them without frs
thinking how we shall serve ourselves
World Wants Mexican Peace.
But we are not the only friend
of Mexico. The whole world desire
her peace and progress, and the Who'll
world Is interested as never before
Mexico lies at last where all the worl
looks on. Central America Is abou
to be touched by the great routes O
the worlds trade and intercourse run
ming free from oceai. to ocean at tn
isthmus. The future has much Il
store for Mexico. as for all the state
OF Central America, but the best gift
can come to her only IL she be read
and free to receive them and to enjo
them honorably. America In particr
lar-America. North and South. an
upon both continents-waits upon tn
development of Mexico; and that d.
velopment can be sound and lastln
only IL IL be the product OF genuin
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