The Colorado statesman., 1915-06-05
MEXICAN WAR MUST END
FULL TEXT OF PRESIDENT WILL
SONS MESSAGE.
Mexican Leaders Are Warned That
V. S. Will Step in to Restore
Peace If They Cannot Do 1t.
western Newspaper Union New. Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Washington, June 3.-The text OF
President Wilson's message to the
American people concerning the pol
icy of the United States toward Mex
leo 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 repub-
lie and used their power in contempt
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 another.
"All protesting the same objects,
they are. nevertheless, unable or I'M
willing to cooperate. A central au-
thority at Mexico City 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 tragical troubles than
she was when the revolution first
kindled 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 being
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
In these circumstances the people
and government of the United States
cannot stand indifferentiy by and do
nothing to serve their neighbors They
want nothing for themselves in Mex
leo. 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 a settlement which
will embody the real objects of the
volution-constitution government
and the rights of the people.
Patriotic MeXicanS are sick at
heart and cry out for peace and for
every self-sacrifice that may be neces-
sary to procure it. The people cry
out for food and will presently hate
as much as they fear every man in
their country 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, II
becomes its duty to adopt. 1t must
presently do what 1t 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 to their support in an effort
to ignore, if they cannot unite, the
warning factions of the country, re.
turn to the constitution of the repub.
lie so long in allegiance and set up
government at Mexico City which
the great powers of the world can
recognize and deal with, a government
with whom the program of the reyolu-
ton will be business and not merely
platform.
Il, therefore, publicly and very sol.
EMMY call upon the leaders of fac.
tons in Mexico to act, to act together
and to act promptly for the relief and
redemption of their PROSTATE country.
l feel 1t to be my duty to tell them
that, if they cannot accommodate their
differences and unite for this great
purpose within a very short time, this
government will be constrained to de-
eide what means should be employed
by the United States in order to help
Mexico save herself and serve her
people.
Dated at White House, Washing
ton, June ., 1916"