The border vidette., 1915-06-05
WILSON'S LAST WORD.
Text of Warning to Mexican Leaders
 by the United States.

1u0 IOllOWIuG Is UIle Iull .D08O of President Wilson's warning to the Mexican leaders,:
 For more than two years re- volu tionary conditions have ex- isted in Mexico. The purpose of the revolution was to rid Mex icO of the men who ignored the constitutions Of the republic and with these purposes Of the peo- pie of the United States instinct ively and generously synpathiz- ed.
 But the leaders of the re volution 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 unwilling to cooperate. A central authority at Mexico City is no sooner set than it is undermined and it's authority de- denied by those who were ex- pected to support it.
 Mexico is apparently no near CT a solution of her tragical troubles than she was when the revolution was first kin6led, and she has been swept by civil war as if by fire. Her crops are de- stroyed, her fields lie unseeded, her people flee to the mountains to escape being drawn into un- availing bloodshed, and no man seems to see or lead the way to settled peace and order.
 There is no proper protec- nJf or for the citizens of other na- tions resident and at work with in her territory. Mexico is starv- ing and without government.
 In these circumstances the people and government of the United. States cannot stand in diffently by and do nothing to serve their neighbor.
 They want nothing for them selves in Mexico; least of all do they desire to settle her differ ences 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 lend any aid they properly can to any instrumentality which promises to be effective in bring ing about a settlement which will embody the real objects of the revolution - constitu tional 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 necessary to, procure it. Their 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.
 Tt is time, therefore, that the government of the United States should frankly state the policy which in these extraordinary circumstances it becomes it's duty to adopt.
 Ut must presently do what it has not hitherto done or felt at liberty to do-lend it's active moral support to some man or group of men, if such may be found, who can rally the suffer ing people of Mexico to their support in an effort to ignore, if they cannot unite, the warning factions of the country, return to the constitution of the coun, try, so long in abeyance and set up a government at Mexico City which the great powers 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.
 T, therefore, publicly and very solemnly, call upon the leaders of the factions in Mex ico to act, to act together, and to act promptly for the relief and redemption of their pros- trate country.
 I feel it 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 conStained to decide what means should be employed by the United States in order to help Mexico save herself and serve her people.
 (Signed,) WOODROW WILSON,
 President of the United States