The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-06-11
MExICANS URGED TO
Agree ON PEACE PLAN
THE PRESIDENT CALLS ON MEX
IC0 TO FORM GOVERNMENT
POWERS CAN RECOGNIZE.
DESIRE IS ONLY TO AID
AS Friend and Neighbor United States
Willing to Aid Stable Government,
If Established, Which Must Be
Done to Alleviate Suffering.

w doIliHStOu'-AlI ldCLIOnS IN Mex
leo were publicly called upon by Pres.
ldent Wilson Wednesday in the name
OF the United States government Ito
accommodate their differences" and
set up government that can be &C
corded recognition.
Failure to unite in a movement to
bring peace to Mexico within a very
short time" it was announced in a
statement telegraphed to Generals
Villa, Carranza, Zapata and others,
would constrain the United States to
decide what means should be employ
ed Ito save the people of the south
ern republic from further devasta-
tons of internal warfare"
Statement to American people:
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 its people, and
with these purposes the people of the
United States instinctively and gen
erously sympathized. But the leaders
OF the revolution, in the very hour of
their success, have disagreed and
turned their arms against one an
other.
"All protesting the same objects,
they are nevertheless unable or I'M
willing to cooperate. A central au-
thority at the City of Mexico is no
sooner 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 tragtcal troubles than
she was when the revolution was first
klndled. And she has been swept by
civil war as if by fire. Her crops are
destroyed, her fields lie unseeded, her
work cattle are confiscated for the
use OF the armed factions, her people
flee to the mountains to escape be-
ing drawn into unavailing bloodshed,
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 starry
ing, and without government.
I'm these circumstances the people
and government of the United States
can not stand indifferently by and do
nothing to serve their neighbor.
They want nothing for themselves in
Mexico Least of all do they desire to
settle her affairs for her, or claim any
right to do so. But neither 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 instrument
tally which promises to be effective
in bringing about settlement which
will embody the real objects of the
reVolution-constitutional government
and the rights of the people. Patrio-
tic Mexicans are sick at heart and
cry out for peace and for every self
sacrifice that may be necessary to
procure it. Their people cry out for
food, and will presently hate as much
as they fear every man in their coun.
try or out OF it who stands between
them and their daily bread.
ut is time, therefore, that the gov
eminent of the United States should
frankly state the policy which in
these extraordinary circumstances it
becomes its duty to adopt. 1t must
presently do what it has not hitherto
done, or felt at liberty 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 in an effort to ignore, if they
can not unite, the warning factions of
the country, return to the constitu- |
ton of the republic, so long in abey-
ance, and set up a government at the
City OF Mexico which the great pow
ers OF the world can recognize and |
deal with, a government with whom |
the program of the revolution will be |
a business and not merely a platform. |
u, therefore, publicly and very sol
EMMY call upon the leaders of fac
tons In Mexico to act, to act togeth- |
er, and to act promptly, for the relief |
and redemption of their PROSTATE |
country. | feel it to be my duty to
tell them that if they can not accom- |
modate their differences and unite |
for this great purpose within a very
short time, this government will be |
to decide what means
should be employed by the United
States to help Mexico save herself
and serve her people"
Commander in Chief Reelected,