Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1913-09-03
HANDS Off IS
WILSON'S POLICY
Noninteryention and Neutrality
Toward Mexico.
TO PROTECT ALL AMERICANS
Presidents Message Declares Fighting
FactionIsts Are to BE Held to
Strict Responsibility for Safe
guard OF Foreigners
Americans Urged to
Leave.

Washington, D. C., Aug. 2S.-Presi-
dent Wilson appeared in person be-
fore congress and laid bare to the
world the "details OF this nations eff
forts to bring about peace in Mexico,
the facts concerning Huerta's rejec.
ton of the peace proposals and the
policy to be pursued by this govern
ment
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 Mexi
co in every way possible.
The president counsels delay before
further action is taken, and says:
lmpatienee Would Be Childish.
Impotence 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.
80 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. The rejection of our
friendship makes them neT 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"
Powers Gives U. S. Moral Support.
President Wilson's message Is unex-
pectedly brief and closes with the
statement that several of the great
governments of the world have given
the United States their generous moral
support in urging on the provisional
authorities at Mexico City the ac-
ceptance OF cur proffered good offices
in the spirit in which they we're made.
The president relates the circum-
stances leading up to the Lind mission
and all the facts in connection with It,
Text Of Presidents Message.
The message follows:
Gentlemen OF the Congress: II is
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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 re daily ar
fected by the distressing condition
which now obtain beyond our south.
ern 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 vividly 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
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
festation. The peace, prosperity, and
contantment OF Mexico mean more
much more. to US, than merely an en-.
larged field for our commerce and en-.
terprise. They mean an enlargement
of the field OF self-government and
the realization of hopes and rights OF
a nation with whose best aspirations
too long suppressed, ind 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 ard progress. and the whole
world is interested as never before.
Mexico lies at last where all the world
looks on. Central America is about
to be touched by the great routes OF
the worlds trade and irtercorrse run.
ming free from ocean to ocean at the
isthmus. 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 if she be ready
and free to receive them and to enjoy
them hcnorably. America in particu.
iar-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 it be the product of a genuine
freedom, a just and ordered govern.
ment founded upon law. And so can
IT be peaceful and fruitful Of the bene-
fits Of peace. Mexico has a great and
enyiabls future before her. If only she
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Grcuchiness Means Failure.