Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-06-02

washington, June 2.-ln statement
70 the American people today Pres1-
dent Wilson served notice on factional
leaders In Mexico that unless they.
within . very short time. unite to set
up a government which the world can
recognize. the United States will Dc
constrained to decide what means
should be employed by the United
states in order to help Mexico save
herself and serve her people"
sienalizing change from the
s"watchful waiting policy which has
guided relations with Mexico for more
than two years, the presidents state
'ment was regarded everywhere IN OF
hcial and diplomatic quarters as no.
tice Of Q new and vigorous policy 10
restore peace below the Rio Grande.
Everywhere It was interpreted as q
warning that the patience OF the
iIrnited il exhausted. What steps the
president Il prepared to take Il MS
earning koes. UNDECIDED, are not dis
closed Is the statement. In high Official
quarters. nevertheless. no doubt existed
that he il prepared to proceed.
President Wilson'S warning went
forward by telegraph today to Amer
lean agents. who will deliver 1t to the
faeitonal leaders. and was at the same
time made public at the White House.
Text Of Statement.
The statement, which goes to Car"
rama, Villa, Zapata and Garza' tne
principal leaders. not as q dlplomat1c
note from the United States, but as
declaration Of President Wilson's at.l-
tude expressed in q statement to the
American people. is as follows:
For more than two years revolu-
tionary conditions have existed IN
Mexico. The purpose of the revolution
was to rid Mexico Of men VINO ignored
the constitution OF the repupnc ana
used their power in contempt OF tno
right Of its people. and with these pur-
poses the people OF the unlteo states
instinctively and generously sym
pathized. But the leaders OF the rev
olution. in the very hour Of their sue
cess, have disagreed and turned tnelr
arms against one another.
No Stable Government.
"Au protesting the same objects.
they are, nevertheless, unable or un-
Wiling to cooperate. A central au-
tl1ority at Mexico City is no sooner
set up than It IL undermined and its
authority denied by those who are ex-
pected to support It.
Mexico is apparently no nearer
solution Of her tragical troubles than
she was when the revolution was first
kindled and she has been swept by q
c,yil war as II by fire. Her crops are
DESTROYED. her fields lie unseeded, her
work cattle are confscated for the use
~ the armed factions: her people flee
~ the mountains to escape being
drawn into unavailing bloodshed, and
M man seems to see or lead the way to
mace or settled order. There Is no
proper protection either to her own
citizens or citizens Of other nations or
residents at work within her territory.
Mexico IL starving and without q gov
ernment.
Time 20 Interfere.
"Yn these circumstances the people
of the government of the United States
can not stand indifferently by and do
nothing to serve their neighbors. They
want nothing for themselves In Mex
= sco. Least Of all do they desire to set
tle affairs for her or claim any right
"a do 50. But neither do they wish to
see utter ruin come upon her, and they
deem Il their duty as friends and
nsi1hbors to lend any aid they properly
a., to any instrumentallty which
nrnmises to bo ef1ectice in bringing
: hoi,t = settlement which will embody
tha real objects Of the revolu4ion-con-
\ stitutional government and the rights
b, re people. Patriotic Mexicans are
sick e heart and cry out for peace ana
every self sacrifice that may be neces-