Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-06-12
VILLA DENIES ANARCHY
rs REIGNING IN MEXICO
Tells President Conditions Are Only
Such as Civil War Entail

Ell, PAso, Tex, June i2.-Denying tna'
tbere is anarchy in Mexico as alleged N
President wilson's note on that country
and declaring that conditions there are
such as would prevail in any country IN
the midst of a civil war, General Fran
cisco villa made public his reply here
today, in which he blames General Car
ranza for the civil warfare. The reply
was to be presented to the President In
Washington this afternoon by Enrique
! Lorente. personal representative Of villa.
do not judge us all as selfish and
stupidity ambitious and false to the prin-
ciples for which we took UP arms" villa
told the President. I'VE are still fighting
to affirm the principles Of the Madero
revolution and for the welfare OF the
people,"
The immediate cause OF the break with
Carranza, Villas reply pointed out, was
the Constltutionalist chiefs refusal TO
take the presidency ad interim and call
general election to organize a conetitu-
tIonal civil government. Carranza held
out for military government, said villa,
1T is my duty as one Of the leaders of
the Conventlonalist party to defend us
from the charges that the note of Presi-
dent Wilson makes in general terms,
said Villas message. TN that note It Is
said that as soon as a central authority
arises, II is undermined and denied by
those who supported It. Such charge
cannot be Justly made against us.
THE authority of General Carranza was
denied by the division of the north be-
cause that change prevented the carrying
out of the program that was the basis
of the revolution, the fundamental prin
cple of which was the restoration of our
supreme law.
Another charge which is made against
the factions which are now fighting is
that there are in reality no guarantees
or protection, either for citizens OF Mex
leo or for foreigners and that Mexico is
devastated and without a government.
Certain IL Is that there Is no authority
that is recognized in every portion of the
Republic, and 1t is only in this meaning
that the assertion In the statement of
President Wilson that there is no gov
ernment Is true. This, however, is the |
result OF civil war such as might oc-
cur in any nation.
But l wish strongly to refute the |
charge that in territory controlled by the |
forces under my command there are no
guarantees of protection for citizens of
my country or for foreigners.
Declaring the reports of misery in Mex
Co were exaggerated, villa said:
1T is not true that misery is the uni
yersal portion of the people; that the
fields are not cultivated, that crops have
oeen destroyed and that famine confronts
the nation.
The war has produced its crop of sor-
rows and has retarded the development
ot our natural resources. The cost of
living has increased and we no longer
enjoy the abundance of food that we were
accustomed to in time of peace.
1t is not true that we have arrived
1t condition where outside aid is neces-
'ary to rescue us from starvation 1t is
llso untrue that our people fee to the
having no confidence in any
military party, no matter to what faction
t belongs"