The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1915-06-10
WILSON'S DECLARATION OF
4 4. PEACE FOR REVOLUTION
TORN MEXICO.

TORN MEXICO.
Washington, D. G., June Pres
ident Wilson's Mexican statement,
Y which, has been sent to Carranza,
Villa, Zapata and Cara, the princi-
pal leaders, not as a diplomatic note
from the United States, but as
declaration of the Presidents atti-
tude, expressed in statement to
the American people, is as follows:
For more than two years revolu-
tionary conditions have existed in
Mexico. The purpose of the revolu-
ton was to rid Mexico Of men who
ignored the Constitution of the Re-
public and used their power in con-
tempt of the right Of it's people, and
with these purposes the people Of
the United States instinctively and
generously sympathized. But the
leaders of the revolution, in the very
hour of their success, have disre-
garded and turned their arms
against one another.
'All processing the same objects,
they are, nevertheless unable or un-
willing to cooperate. A central
authority at Mexico City is no soon
er set up than it is undermined and
its authority denied by those who
were expected to support it.
Mexico is apparently no nearer
a solution of her tragical troubles
than she was when the revolution
was first kindled. And she has been
swept by civil war as if by fire. Her
crops are destroyed, hcr fields lie
unseeded, her work cattle are con-
fiscated for the use of the armed
factions, her people flee to the
mountains to escape being drawn
into unavailing blood-shed and no
man seems to see or lead the way to
peace and settled order. There is
no proper protection, either for her
own citizens or for the citizens of
other nations, resident and at work
within her territory. Mexico is
starving and without government.
In these circumstances the peo-
pie and government of the United
States cannot stand indifferently by
and do nothing to serve their neigh
Dor. They want nothing for them
selves in Mexico. Least of all do they
desire to settle her affairs for her or
claim any right to do so. But neith- |
er do they wish to see utter ruin
come upon her, and they deem it
their duty as friends and neighbors
to lend any aid they properly can to
any instrumentality which promises
to be effective in bringing about a
settlement which will embody the |
real objects of the revolution-con-
stitutional government and the |
rights OF the people. Patriotic Next
cans are sick of heart and cry out |
for peace and for every self-sacrifice |
that may be necessary to procure 1t. |
Their people cry out for food and |
will presently hate as much as they |
fear every man in the country or out |
Of it who stands between them and |
their daily bread.
1T is time, therefore, that the !
government of the United States |
should frankly state the policy |
which, in these extraordinary cir
cumstances, it becomes its duty to |
adopt. 1t must presently do what it |
has not hitherto done or felt at lib
erty to dO-lend its active moral
support to some man or group of
men, if such may be found, who can
rally the suffering people Of Mexico
to their support in an effort to ig-
more, If they cannot unite, the war
ring factions of the country, return
to the Constitution Of the Republic
so long in allegiance and set up. gov
eminent at Mexico City which the
great powers Of the world can recog
nize and deal with, government
with whom the program of the revo-
luton will be business and not
merely platform.
Il, therefore, publicly and very |
solemnly call upon the leaders Of
factions in Mexico to act, to act to-
gether and to act promptly for the
relief and redemption Of their pros
trate country. feel it to be my duty
to tell them that if they cannot ac-
commodate their indifferences and
unite for this great purpose within a
very short time this government will
be constrained to decide what means
should be employed by the United
States in order to help Mexico save
herself and serve her people"