The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1915-06-10
MUST SET UP A GOVERNMENT
THAT CAN BE ACCORDED
RECOGNITION.
WOULD UNITE ALL FACTIONS
Intervention Considered Possible II
Hopeless Conditions Continue.
Full Text Of Note.

American people PRESIDENT wilson
served notice on the factional leaders
of Mexico that unless within "a very
short time" they unite to set UP
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"
Message Goes Forward.
President Wilson's warning to Mex
leo that the United States cannot per-
NIT present. conditions to continue
went forward by telegraph to Ameri-
can agents who will deliver it to the
factional leaders, and was at the same
time made public at the White House.
The Message to Leaders.
The statement, which goes to Car
rama, Villa, Zapata and Cara, the
principal leaders, not as a diplomatic
note from the United States but as a
declaration of President Wilson's at
titude expressed in statement to the
American people, is as follows:
more than two years of 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 it's people; and with
these purposes the people of the Unit
ed States instictively and generously
sympathized. But the leaders of the
revolution, in the very hour of their
success have disagreed and turned
their arms aaginst one another.
Cali 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 are sx-
pected to support it.
Trouble Reviewed.
Mexico is apparently no nearer a
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 confscated 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 starv-
ing and without government.
Policy Frankly Stated
"It is time, therefore, that the gov
eminent of the United States should
frankly state the policy which in
these extraordinary circumstances It.
becomes its duty to adopt. 1t must
presently do what it 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, II they cannot unite, the
warning factions of the country, re-
turn to the cons titution of the people
so long in allegiance, and set up gov
eminent at Mexico City which the
great powers of the world can recog-
nize and deal with, government with
whom the program of the revolution
platform.
81 therefore publicly and very SOL
emily call upon the leaders of fac
tions in Mexico to act, to act togeth-
er, and to act promptly for the relief
and redemption of their prostrate
country. I feel it 20 be my duty to
tell them that, if they cannot accom-
modate their differences and unite for
this great purpose within very short
time, this government will be con-
strained to decide what means should
be employed by the United States in
order to help Mexico save herself and
serve her people,
Duty Of United States
TN these circumstances the people
and government of the United States
cannot stand indifferently by and do
nothing to serve her neighbor. They
want nothing for themselves in Mexi-
CO. 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-
Unconstitutional government and
the rights of the people Patriotic
Mexicans are sick at heart and cry
out for peace and for every self-sacri.
fee that may be necessary to procure
1t. 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.