Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-09-03

| itself to recognize and in any way
proper to assist the administration
chosen and SET up in Mexico in the
way and on the conditions suggested.
Taking all the existing conditions
into consideration the government of
the United States can conceive of no
reasons sufficient to justify those who
are now attempting to shape the pol
Icy or exercising the authority of Mex
leo in decling the offices of friendship
thus offered. Can Mexico give the civ
lllzed world satisfactory reason for
rejecting our good Offices?
Lind Showed Great Tact.
Mr.. Lind executed his delicate and
difficult mission with singular tact,
flrmness, and made clear to the, au-
thorities OF the city of Mexico. not
only the purpose of his visit. but also
the spirit in which it had been under
taken. But the proposals he sub
m1tted were rejected, in note, the
full text of which l take the liberty
of laying before you
u am led to believe that they were
rejected partly because the authori-
ties at Mexico City had been grossly
m1sinformed and misled upon two
points. They did not realize the spirit
of the American people in this matter,
their earnest friendliness and yet
sober determination that some just So
luton be found for the Mexican diff
culties; and they did not believe that
the present administration spoke,
through Mr. Lind. for the American
people
Meanwhile, what is it our duty to
do Clearly, everything that we do
must be rooted in patience and done
with calm and disinterested delibera-
ton. Impotence on our part would
be childish, and would be fraught with
every risk of wrong and folly. We
can afford to exercise the self-re-
straint of really great nation which
realizes its own strength and scorns
to misuse it. It was our duty to offer
our active assistance. 1t is now our
duty to show what true neutrality will
do to enable the people of Mexico to
set their affairs in order again and
wait for further opportunity to offer
our friendly counsels The door is not
closed against the resumption, either
upon the initiative of Mexico or upon
our own, of the effort to bring order
out of the confusion by friendly CO
operative action, should fortunate oc-
casion offer
Urges Americans to Leave
we should earnestly urge all Amer
leans to leave Mexico at once, and
should assist them to get away in
every way possible Not because we
would mean to slacken in the least
our efforts TO safeguard their lives
and their interests, but because it is
imperative that they should not take
any unnecessary risks il it is physical
ly possible for them to leave the coun-
try. We should let everyone who
assumes to exercise authority in any
part of Mexico know in the most I'M
equivocal way that we shall vigilantly
watch the fortunes OF those Ameri-
cans who cannot get away, and shall
hold those responsible for their suf-
ferings and losses to definite reckon
ing
Will Remain Neutral.
For the rest, / deem it my duty t.
exercise the authority conferred upon
me by the law of March IA, 1912, to
see to 1t that neither side to the
struggle now going on in Mexico re-
ceive any assistance from this side of
the border. I shall follow the best
practice of nations in the matter of
neutrality by forbidding the exporta-
ton of arms or munitions of war of
any kind from the United States to
any part of the republic of Mexico
Il am happy to say that several of
the great governments of the world
have given this government their gen
erous moral support in urging upon
the provisional authorities at the city
of Mexico the aceeptances OF our
proffered good offices in the spirit in
which they were made
Mexico's Side of It.
Washington, Aug 28-The follow
ing is synopsis of the reply of
Senior Gamboa to the proposals OF
the American government conveyed
Hon. John Lind. as transmit
ted to congress by the president:
In his reply to the American pro
posals Senior Gamboa, the Mexican
minister OF foreign affairs urges the
points:
That President Wilson's imputation
that no progress is being made to-
ward the restoration of peace in Mex
leo is not true.
That the fact the Mexican govern
nent enjoys the recognition of nearly
all the great nations of the world is
proof that 1t is true and honorable
administration
That the proposal of an armistice is
because nations do not
armistices with bandits. To
grant an armistice would be TO rec
ognize the belligerency of the rebels.