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
Dreams; IdeaIistic Minds Will
Be Held Responsible at Bar of
History for All the Loss of Life"

NEW YORK, Jan. 1o.-Henry Lane
Wilson, former Ambassador to Mex.
leo. arraigned President Wilson a
the dinner of the Rubber Club, in the
Waldorf Astoria, for the policy O.
his administration toward Mexico
He declared the United States hat
sctually interviewed.
IF the government Of General
Huerta had been recognized at its
threshold, it would have made
peace throughout Mexico" he said,
and thousands of lives would have
been saved and millions Of dollars
worth of property, especially of for
eigners and Americans, would not
have been destroyed. The Admins
tration at Washington saw fit not
to accept my recommendation to
recognize the government of Gen
eral 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
tee and whom they should put out
Of office"
Mr.. Wilson questioned any prece
dent for the action of President Will
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 lOItlSil COuHIiy w llAlpot = tAetA
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
sphnlo CT Iva rarh1nS nf
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
ornament control the North Star.
The President of this Republic,
and | have the greatest respect for
him, is a master of the English Ian
suage 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 boys CT estheti1
dreams.
But these good people must
know, ought to know, that at the
Judgment bar of history they will
he responsible for all the destruc-
ton 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
dlStrust between this country and
me greatest country in poss'bil-
tiles near us for all time to come
Mr.. Wilson stated earlier in III
address that the revolution OF Made"
against Diaz was financed very large
~ from the Cit" of New York: tina
lOe State Department contained re-
ports Of secret service agents to prov
mat "a great oil company gave as
slstance to Madero."
The revolution against Huerta, h
SAID, was due to the same companies
II would be a shock in certaii
CIRCLES he continued, 'if they knel
mat secretly and unknown to then
iioelr policy has been suggested dur
ing the last six months or year b.
representatives of these internationa
corporations and trusts"
Madero, said Mr.. Wilson, met hi
ueath at the hands OF he guard tina
was conveying him h the penitentiar
IN Mexico City. H corroborated tn
reports of the a,rpcities committe
against Americans md other for
eisners in MeXic or fifty to seven
N-nVe thousand Americans in tn
country, thirty thousand left it, los
inE approximately $100.000,000, aban
uohlng homes and businesses who
"leg mad labored to develop.