Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1915-06-04
ALL FACTIONS IN MEXICO CALLED
UPON IN NAME OF U. S. TO
SETTLE DIFFERENCES
FAILURE TO BRING PEACE
Generals carranza, Villa, Zapata and
Others Must Unite in Movement,
or Else United States Will
Decide Course.

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commodate their differences" and sci
up government that can be accord
ed recognition.
Failure to unite in movement to
bring peace to Mexico within a very
short time, it was announced in a
statement telegraphed to Generals Car.
rama, Villa, Zapata and others, would
constrain the United States Ito de-
eide what mean& should be employed"
In order to save the people of the
southern republic from further de-
vastation of internal warfare.
Seeks to Unite Factions.
Everywhere in official and diplo-
matte quarters and among Mexicans of
varied leaning-the statement was in
terpreted as meaning that the United
States would bring pressure, first, to
unite the factions in the choice of q
provisional president, and, failing to
bring all elements together, would
give its active support to those elc-
ments which did agree. Intervention
was considered as a possible ultimate
development, but only If a HOPELESS
condition Of anarchy followed with no
remedy from within the republic.
The text Of the Presidents state
ment follows:
Leaders Disagree.
For more than two years revolu-
uonary conditions have existed in Mex
leo. The purpose of the revolution
was to rid Mexico of men who ignored
the constitution of the republic and
used their power in contempt of the
right of it's people, and with these pur-
poses the people of the United States
insttnctively and generously sympa-
thized.
"But the leaders Of the revolution,
in the very hour of their success, have
disagreed and turned their arms
against one another.
No Solution Near.
"All processing 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 au-
thority denied by those who were ex-
pected to support it.
Mexico h apparently no nearer q
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, her fields lie unseeded, her
work cattle are confiscated for the use
of the armed factions; her people fee
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 protection either for her own citi-
zens or for the citizens of other ma
tons resident and at work within her
territory. Mexico is starving and
without government.
Duty Towards Mexico
I'm these circumstances the people
and government of tho United States
cannot stand indifferently by and do
nothing to serve their neighbor. They
want nothing for themselves in Mex
leo. Least of all do they desire to set
tie 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 fundamentally
which promises to be effective in
bringing about a. settlement which will
embody the real objects of the revolu-
tion-the constitutional government
and the rights of the people. Patri.
otto 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.
Policy Of United States.
1T is time, therefore, that the gov
eminent of the United States should
frankly state the policy which in these
extraordinary circumstances it be-
comes its duty to adopt. It must pres.
emily 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 ouch can be found, who can
rally the suffering people Of Mexico
to their support in an effort to ignore,
II they cannot unite, the warning fac.
lions Of the country, return to the
constitution Of the republic so long in
abeyance and set up government at
Mexico City which the great powers
OF the world can recognize and deal
with, government with whom the
program of thu ronolnfion will ho o.