Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-11
Former Ambassador Declares the
Attitude of the Present Admin
istration Has No Precedent in
the History Of the World.
"PoIiCies Are Born of Scholastic
Dreamsj IdeaIistic Minds VIII
Be Held Responsible at Bar of
History for All the Loss Of Life"

NEW YORK, Jan. 10.-Henry Lane
Wilson, former ssador to Mex
leo, arraigned President Wilson I
the dinner of the Rubber Club, in thu
Waldorf Astoria, for the policy o
his administration toward Mexico
He declared the United States hat
actually interviewed.
IF the government of General
Hucrta had been recognized at its
threshold, 1t would have made
peace throughout Mexico" he said,
and thousands of lives would have
heen saved and millions of dollars
worth of property, especially of for
eigners and Americans, would not
have been destroyed. The Admins
traton at Washington saw fit not
10 accept my recommendation II
recognize the government of Gen
eraI Huerta and at that time / pre-
dicted exactly what has occurred
there during the last six months
and exactly the conditions that pre-
vail there to-day.
We have now actually inter
yened in Mexico. Don't make any
mistake about that. Not by arms,
but we have nevertheless actually
interviewed in Mexico.
And we have sent down there
private, special unofficial represen-
tatives of the President for the pur-
pose of telling the Mexican people
how they should govern their coun-
try whom they should put into Of
flee and whom they should put out
Of office"
Mr.. Wilson questioned any prece
dent for the action of Pres ident Viii
son, asserting that fourteen million
Of Mexicans wanted Huerta to b.
sustained, not because they lovet
him, but because they believed it wa
the only way to bring about peace
Whenever before has this Gov
eminent ordered Americans out of
a foreign country without guaran-
tee of protection for their losses, or
announced a policy which makes US
virtual overlords of every republic
from the Rio Grande to Cape Horn
and makes it necessary TO inter-
fere in every turbulent republic IN
that great empire.
scholastic Dream, He Ayers.
These are policies born Of
scholastic dreams, or perhaps of
IDEAS formed before unhappy diVi-
Sions made possible the exercise Of
power by theorists who see only the
North Star and not the vast firma-
ment and never remember that the
laws which control the whole
armament control the North Star.
The President of this Republic,
and | have the greatest respect for
hlm, is a master of the English Ian
guage and of eloquent and per-
Suasive diction. He can smite the
harp of idealism, and from every
idealiStic mind in this Republic will
come a response; from every mind
wandering in the bogs Of estheti2
dreams.
But these good people must
know, ought to know, that at the
JUG lueII oar Ol HlSlOIN lHtS WIZ
be responsible for all the destruc-
lion of property, for all the loss of
life, for all the hatred and rancor in
Latin America and suspicion III
Europe; and finally for the sowing
Of the seeds of antagonism and
distrust between this country and
The greatest country in POSSIBLE
tiles near us for all time to come. "
Mr.. Wilson stated earlier in hi
address that the revolution of Made"
against Diaz was financed very large
y from the Cit of New York; tina
the State Department contained re-
ports of secret service agents to prov
mat "a great oil company gave as
N.stance to Madero."
me revolution against Huerta. n
SAID, was due to the same companie
1t would be a shock in certai
lTcles." he continued. "if they kne'
mat secretly and unknown to thel
lAeir policy has been suggested dur
ing the last six months or year b
representatives Of these information;
operations and trusts"
Madero, said Mr.. Wilson. met h
l'tth at the hands of he guard thu
was conveying him II the penitentiar
I'D Mexico City. II Iorroborated Il
reports of the 8. 5Cities committe
dsainst Americas nd other fol
tlEners in Mexic or fifty to sever
N-nNe thousand Americans in II
country. thirty Thousand left it, los
Ing approximately 100000, abar
uoning homes and businesses who
u'y had labored to develop.