The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1915-06-11
REvSES POLICY
TOWARD MEXICO
PRESIDENT PLANS TO RESTORE
ORDER IN NEiGHBoRING RE-
PUBLIC If POSSIBLE.
Notice is Served on the Leaders Of
Factions That Unless They Cease
Warning, United States Will
Take Hand.

Washington.-All factions In MeS
leo have been publicly called upon by
President Wilson in the name of the
United States government ito accom-
MEDIATE their differences" and set up
| government that can be accorded rec
ignition.
Failure to unite in movement to
bring peace to Mexico within very
short time" it was announced in
statement telegraphed on Wednesday
to Generals Carranza, Villa, Zapata
and others, would constrain the Unit
ed States to decide what means
should be employed in order to save
the people of the southern republic
from further deyastations of internal
warfare.
The text of the statement which
goes to Carranza, Villa, Zapata and
Cara, the principal leaders, not as
diplomatic note from the United
States, but as a declaration Of Presi-
dent Wilson's attitude, expressed in a
statement to the American people, is
as follows:
For more than two years revolu-
tionary conditions have existed in
Mexico. The purpose of the revolu-
ton was to rid Mexico of men who ig-
nored the constitution of the republic
and used their power in contempt OF
the right of its good people, and with
these purposes the people of the
United States instinctively and gen.
erously sympathized. But the leaders
OF the revolution, in the very hour of
theiz success, have disagreed and
turned their arms against one another.
All processing the same objects,
they are nevertheless unable or unwil-
ling to cooperate. A central author
ity at Mexico City is no sooner set up
than it is undermined, and its author
lty denied by those who we're expect
ed to support it.
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 confiscated 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 or
other nations resident and at work
within her territory. Mexico is staTv-
ing and without government.
In these circumstances the people
and government of the United States
cannot stand indifferentIy by and do
nothing to serve their neighbors 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 they
wish to see utter ruin come upon her,
and they deem it their duty as friends
and neighbors to lend amy 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
constitutional government
and the rights of the people. Patriot
ic Mexicans are sick at heart and cry
out for peace and for every self-sac-
rifce that may be necessary to pro.
cure 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.
1T 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 it's
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, if they cannot unite, the war
ring factions of the country, return to
the constitution of the republic so
long in allegiance and set up govern
ment at Mexico City which the great
powers of the world can recognize
and deal with. government with
which the program of the revolution
will be business and not merely a
platform.
Il therefore publicly and very sol
EMMY call upon the leaders of fac
lions in Mexico to act, to act to-
gether, and to act promptly, for the
relief and redemption of their pros
trate country. | feel it to be my duty
to tell them that, if they cannot ac-
commodate their differences and unite
for this great purpose within a very
short time, this government 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"