Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-09-11
WILSON PUTS IT
UP TO CONGRESS
President Reads His Message
On Mexican Situation.
FUTURE POLICY OUTLINED
The United States VIII Observe Strict
Non-lnterference, But viii De-
mand Protection for Its Citi-
zens and Their Homes.

ington.-Presiden Wilson an
peared in person before congress ant
laid bare to the world the details o
this nations efforts to bring abou
peace in Mexico; the facts concern
Ing Huerta'sN rejection of the peace
proposals and the policy to be pur
sued now by this government in thu
following message:
Gentlemen of the Congress: 1t II
clearly my duty to lay before you very
fully, and without reservation, the
facts concerning our present relation!
with the Republic of Mexico
"The deplorable posture of affair!
in Mexico / need not describe, but
deem 1t my duty to speak very frank
ly OF what this government has done
and should seek to do in fulfillment
of its obligation to Mexico herself, as
friend and neighbor, and to Ameri
can citizens whose lives and vital in
terests are daily affected by the dis
tressing conditions which now obtain
beyond our southern border.
Ours a Genuine Friendship.
These 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 ele.
ment in the determination of our duty
1--WE are glad to call ourselves the
friends Of Mexico and we shall, hope
have many an occasion, in the happier
times as we'll as in these days OF
trouble and confusion, to show that
our friendship is genuine and disin.
terested, capable of sacrifice and every
generous manifestation. The peace
prosperity and contentment OF Mexico
mean more, much more, to us than
merely an enlarged field for our com.
MERGE and enterprise. They mean an
enlargement of the field of self-gov.
eminent and the realization Of the
hopes and rights of a nation with
whose best aspirations. so long sup.
pressed and disappointed, we deeply
sympathize.
I'VE shall yet prove to the Mexican
people that we know how to serve
them without first thinking how we
shall serve ourselves.
A Just Government Necessary.
"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 is about
to be touched by the great routes OF
the worlds trade and intercourse run
ming free from ocean to ocean at the
isthmus.
The future has much in store for
Mexico, as for all the states of Cen.
trail America; but the best gifts can
come to her only il she be ready and
free to receive them and to enjoy
them honorably,
america in particular - America,
North and South and upon both CONT
nents-waits upon the development Of
Mexico, and that development can be
sound and lasting only II it be the
product of genuine freedom, a just
- o,dorod coyaru ~, Ont founded unOr
law. Only so can it be peaceful oil
fruitful of the benefits of peace.
Mexico has a great and enviablt
future before her if only she choose
and attain the paths OF honest con
stitutional government.
1.-THE present circumstances of thu
republic, I deeply regret to say, DE-
not seem to promise even the foun
dation of such a peace,
Disorder the only Prospect.
I'VE have waited many months
months full Of peril and anxiety, fo
the conditions there to improve, AM
they have not improved. They hav'
grown worse, rather. The territory il
some sort controlled by the provision
al authorities at the City of Mexico
has grown smaller, not larger. Tn,
prospect of the pacification of tn,
country, even by arms, has seemed 4
grow more and more remote and it
pacification by the authorities at tn,
capital is evidently impossible by an,
other means than force.
Difficulties more and more entangl
those who claim to constitute tn
legitimate government of the republic
They have not made good their claim
In fact. Their successes in the fiel
have proved only temporary. Wa
and disorder, devastation and confu
sion. seem to threaten to become tn
settled fortune of the distracted coun
try.
Our Duty to offer Advice.
"As friends We could wait no longe
for solution. which every week SCENE,
further away. 1t was our duty at leas
to volunteer our good offices--to offe
to assist, If we might, in efecting SOM
arrangement which would bring relic
and peace and set up a UNIVERSAL,
acknowledged political authority there
Accordingly, l took the liberty o
sending the Hon. John Lind, formerl