The weekly soliphone., 1915-04-23
HUERTA TALKS OF
 MEXICAN TENURE
Says as President He Enforced Law, Kept Institutions Going, and
 Issued No Bogus Money.

New York, April 16.-Victoriano Huerta, formerly dictator of Mexico, who is now staying at the Hotel An sonia in this city and who has been accused by Villa of having come here to organize new revolution in Mexico, gave out long signed his views of the Mexican situation.
 After reviewing the Madero regime and the subsequent revolu- tion, when, as Gen. Huerta says, flor ten days the streets of the City of Mexico ran with blood" the statement continues:
 Our congress, our senate and our supreme court of justice, con- plying with all the requisites of the constitution of our country, named me as the constitutional president ! of the United States of Mexico, con- sidering me as the man for the job. 1 MT. Madero, while being conducted to the penitentiary, died an unnat- ural death. In the opinion of some of the people of this country, l am 1 blamed as having a part in execut- | ing him. I never have tried to shirk any responsibility and any 1 thing I ever did was done openly. am man enough to stand by what do. I know I am not to blame for the death of MT. Madero. History will do me justice
 Gen. Huerta then pictured his own regime in Mexico as one in which both foreigners and law-abiding cit ! izens of the republic were fully pro- tected. AS proof of this he refers to the former United States ambassa- dor, Henry Lane Wilson, charge Nelson 'Shaughnessy, and to all the members of the American colony in Mexico City.
 When I took charge of the ad- ministration, he said, "our treas ury was empty. In order not to ruin the country, l struggled along as best l could, but did not adopt any drastic measures. l did not print any bogus money l never called on anybody for forced loans. Not one single banking institution went to the wall during my administration. They all paid dividends Not sin gle business house shut it's doors. You see, l wanted to build up-I did not want to destroy.
 "The heads of your administra- tion," he continued, have not been fair to Mexico, but l believe they were misled by false statements. If your administration had only been in Mexico for thirty days, they would have changed their theoreti- cal, erroneous ideas,
 But l would rather not discuss this subject too deeply. It is dis courtesy, you know, for a foreigner to criticize the heads of a nation whose hospitality he enjoys"
 1Sll. I1uSl Id SO6S OH lO Say that he eliminated himself from Mexican politics for the good of himself and his country.
 T left the country voluntarily, g he declares, nobody took it away from me. I should be excused from talking about myself so much, but I am only human.
 "The actual situation in my coun- try is too bad for me to analyze deeply. Anarchy is too soft a word to call it. In the last eight months since l left Mexico tens of thousands of peaceful, law-abiding citizens have been killed. New tortures un- known in the times of inquisition have been discovered by human brutes to make their fellow breth- ren and foreigners suffer.
 My Indian blood boils," he said, when l think of the unfortunate conditions existing in my poor coun- try, and when l think a good, clean press like the American is lead by false and artificial tricks to defend a career that is nothing more than one of vandalism and anarchy"