Daily Kennebec journal., 1914-02-04

based, have essentially changed and
as it is desirable to place the United
States with reference to the exporta-
ton Of arms or munitions Of war to
Mexico in the same position as other
powers, the said proclamation is here
by revoked"
Statement Accompanies.
Accompanying the order the White
House issued the following statement
THE executive order under which
the expectation of arms and ammuni-
tion into Mexico is forbidden was a
departure from the accepted practices
of neutharity--a deliberate departure
from those practices under we'll
considered Joint resolution Of Congress
determined upon in circumstances
which have now ceased to exist.
at was intended to discourage in
cipient revolts against the regularly
constituted authorities of Mexico.
Since that order was issued. the cir
cumstances of the case have under
gone radical change. There is now
no constitutional government in Mex
leo; and the existence of this order
hinders and delays the very thing the
government Of the United States IS
now insisting upon: namely, that Mex
leo shall be left free to settle her own
affairs and as soon as possible put
them upon constitutional footing by
her own force and counsel. The order
is, therefore, rescinded.'
Foreign Officers Advised.
American embassies and legations
abroad were instructed last Saturday
to inform foreign governments of the
above decision. Similarly Secretary
Bryan late yesterday informed the
members of the diplomatic corps here
This was In line with the policy an
nounced at the beginning of the pres
ent administration of keeping the ma
tions of the world informed of devel-
opnents In the Mexican policy.
The administration viewpoint on the
action taken today, as gathered from
those familiar with the Presidents at
titude may be summed UP as follows:
"No one outside Mexico can now ac-
commodate her affairs.
.sThe withdrawal of all moral or ma
teriai support from without is the in
dispensible first step to a solution from
within.
From many sources which 1t deems
trustworthy. the government of the
United States has received informa-
tion which convinces it that there is
more hopeful prospect of peace, OF
the security of property and of the
early payment of foreign obligations if
Mexico Is left to the forces now reck-
oning with one another.
There are no influences at Mexico
City that can be counted on to do
anything more than try to perpetuate
and strengthen the selfish oligarichial
and military interests which, it is clear,
the rest of the country can be made to
endure only by constant warfare and
pitiless harrying Of the North. The
President Is SO fully convinced of this
that after months of the most careful
study of the situation at close range,
he no longer feels justified in main
tanning an irregular position as re-
CARDS the contending parties in the
matter of neutrality.
the intent is, therefore, to remove
the inhibition on the expectation of
arms and ammunition to Mexico from
the United States.
Settlement by civil war carried to
its bitter conclusion is a terrible thing,
but It must come now whether we wish
it or not, unless some outside power
is to undertake to sweep Mexico with
its armed forces from end to end,
which would be the mere beginning of
a still more difficult problem.
"E5y removing the inhibition on the ex-
portation of arms and ammunition into
Mexico the government of the United
States puts itself and intends to put itself
in the same position as other nations
whose subjects have all along been at
liberty to deal as they pleased with Mex
leo. The government of the United States
deems it essential to the settlement of
her present difficulties that Mexico should
be treated as any other country would
be which was torn by civil war.
THE circumstance that Mexico is for
the time being unable to meet her finan-
cial obligations creates no novel or ex-
ceptional international rights and she
will be the sooner able to meet the obli-
cations and resume her full international
responsibilities If she is left to determine
her own affairs, first by domestic force
and then by domestic control"
SnlpmeNt OF arms anu dfiiiHuH1tiou Iioii
the United States into Mexico has been
one Of the principal levers Of American
influence in the Mexican situation and
the storm center of agitation ever since
armed revolution began in Mexico in No
vember, 1910
The actual operation of the embargo.
instead of effecting neutrality as was
originally intended. imposed condition
of affairs against which Constitutionalisss
protested vigorously. They argued that
the Huerta government could obtain sup
plies from Europe, whereas the Constitu-
tionalists were cut off from their only
external base of supplies-the American
boundary They continued the fighting
in the opinion Of government officials
here, against heavy odds. obtaining their
ammunition by the slow process Of con-
quest The struggle of the Constitution
alists to occupy seaports so that they
might get arms by sea from foreign
llcountries ended in failure, for the Huerta
regime had all the gunboats in the Mex
lean navy and such places at Tampico
| and Tuxpan proved invulnerable to land