The sun., 1916-10-30
MEXICAN CHIEFS IN
ATTACK ON WILSON


policy which will combine sympathy with
nrmncss and consistency"
Candida Aguilar, Secretary Of Re-
i%ations, is quoted as follows:
"Wilson's policy has made Mexico feel
like a man at whom is pointed a loaded
and cooked pistol and who Is kept In this
uncomfortable and uncertain position
for a long and nerve racking period. II
the trigger liz to be pulled The mar
would prefer to havc II done at once
80 that the worst would be over quickly.
Blu naturally. he would prefer to have
his enemy put away the gun and be-
come an honest friend.
The Mexican people are grateful to
President Wilson for understanding. Al
President Taft did not, that the revo.u
ton in Mexico Is a genuine social move
ment. They are grateful to Wilson for
lis intelligence and his courage in refus
ing 10 recognize Querta. But they feel
that Wilson'S policy has at times been
marked by vacillation INC double deal
ing. or at least. that his words and
his deeds have not always been recon-
cilable with each other. What Mexico
wants from the American President.
whatever his name may be, is a policy
that Is firm. frank. consistent and on
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open and honest hostility to false friend
ship"
Says villa Gets HELP.
Gen. Aware Oregon says:
Wilson made a grave mistake when
he sent Gen. Pcrshing's expedition across
the border. He should have held back
his force long enough to have permitted
US tc arrange TO cooperate with Pershing.
Another rnmnlA.nf we have m MAXI.
about Wilson is that his Government
tolerates the secret shipment OF mun!-
tons to Villa. Zapata and other Next
can bandits.
But the greatest failing ot President
Wilson Is that nis acts SO seldom coincide
with his words. Wilson makes too
many declarations which have no facts
behind them. You need not examine his
Mexican policy for substantiatioa Of
inrs with Germany"
Gen. Pablo Gonzales says In tho course
OF his interview:
The Fcrshing expedition and the EN-
barge oil certain articles which the
Cons. ,tutionalist Goyernmcu. had been
obtaining in the United states nave Pc
tarded the complete pacifcation n re-
construction Of the country by at least
a year. ! will rcpeat-and I speak with
a . btiitNN llaN III IiS
way the honest and cultured part of the
American people will be better impressed
Il viii repeat hat the ambiguous policy
OF President Wilson Is resulting dis
astrously for ..,e very ends which he Is
attempting to gain and while such a
policy continues II In useless to demand
that the Constitutionalist Government
finish the work of reconstruction. be-
cause its efforts will bc frui,less before
thu arsiATialiN p,ainflinaA vitality NJ
our enemies. who at zach blow given
them by the Constitutionalists receive
some direct or indirect support from
some foreign nation"
Il wish that President Wilson would
he our friend and give proof of his
friendship with deeds. or that he wouli
be our enemy and declare open var OH
us. Hut he ought not TO eNasperate us
with his policy of double dealing. over
whelming us on the one hand with hon.
eyed words n p:btestations Of SYM
patty. and on the other hand protect
ing our enemies and obstructing the con-
solida;ion OF our Government"