Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1915-06-03
Wilson Sends Note
to Factions.
PATIENCE OF UNITED
STATES EXHAUSTED
Unless Peace Is Quickly Re-
stored This Country will
Feel Constrained TO Act"

Washington, June 3.-ln a state.
ment to the American people Presi.
Wilson served notice on the factiOnal
leaders In Mexico that unless within
"a very short time" they unite to set
up q government which the world can
recognize the United States will be
constrained to decide what means
should be employed by the United
States in order to help Mexico save
herself and serve her people"
Signalling change from the
"watchful waiting" policy which has
guided relations with Mexico for more
than two years, the presidents state
ment was regarded everywhere in Of
fetal and diplomatic quarters as no.
ice Of new and vigorous policy to
restore peace below the Rio Grande.
Everywhere it was interpreted as
warning that the patience of the Unit.
ed States is exhausted. What steps
the president is prepared to take ii
his warning goes unheeded is not dis.
closed in the statement In high Of
ficial quarters. nevertheless, no doubt
existed that he is prepared to proceed.
The statement, which goes to Car
rama, Villa, Zapata and Cara, the
principal leaders, not as diplomatic
note from the United States but as
declaration of President Wilson's at
titude expressed in statement to the
American people, is as follows:
Disagree in Hour Of Success.
For more than two years revolu-
tionary conditions have existed in
Mexico. The purpose of the revolu-
tion 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 Unit
ed States instinctively and generously
sympathized. But the leaders of the
revolution, in the very hour of their
success, have disagreed and turned
their arms against one another.
"All processing the same objects,
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
0fH
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 confscated 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 proper protection either for her
own citizens or for the citizens OF
other nations resident and at work
within her territory. Mexico is starv.
ing and without a government.
Cannot Stand by Indifferently.
I'm these circumstances the people
and government of the 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
settle her affairs for her, or claim
any right to do so. But neither do
khey 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 instrumental
ity which promises to be effective in
bringing about a settlement which
will embody the real objects Of the
revolution-constitutional government
and the rights of the people. Patriot
ic Mexicans are sick at heart and cry
out for peace and for every self-sacri-
fee 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 1t who stands between them and
their daily bread.
United States Must Take Action.
1T 10 time, therefore, that the gov
esnnent Of the United States should