The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-06-11
REAL FRIEND
TO MEXICO
United States Is, Declared
Pres. Wilson in Re-
cent Address
SINCERELY HOPES
TO HELP NEIGHBOR
Our Interference Some Time
Ago Was to Gust Trouble
some Factor

Havana, June ll.--(By the Associated
Press President Wilson in his ad
dress 10 the Mexican newspaper editors
in Washington last Friday expressed sin
cere friendship for Mexico, His address
which is printed in the morning paper'
here to-day, follows in part:
II have never received a group OF
men who were more welcome than You
because il has been one OF my dis
tresses during my presidency that the
Mexican people did not more thoroughly
understand the attitude of the United
States toward Mexico. | think ! can
assure YOU that thai attitude is one Of
sincere friendship.
1.-The policy of my administration to-
ward Mexico was in every point based
upon the principle that the internal set
Element of the affairs of Mexico was
none of our business; that we had no
right TO interfere with or dictate TO Mex
leo in any particular with regard to her
own affairs. When we sent troops into
Mexico our sincere desire was nothing
else than to assist YOU TO get rid of a
man who was making the settlement of
your affairs for the time being impossi
BILE. We had no desire to use our troops
for any other purpose and ] was in
hopes that by assisting in that way and
therenpon Immediately Withdrawing |
might give substantial truth of assur-
ance that | had given your government
through President Carranza.
AT the present time 1t distresses me
to learn that certain influences, which
assume to be German in their origin, are
trying to make a wrong impression
throughout Mexico as to the purpose OF
the United States, but to give an abso-
lutely untrue account of things that
happened.
I'VE are the champions of those ma
tons which have not had the military
standing which would enable them to
compete with the strongest nations in
the world, and | look forward with pride
to the time which | hope will come when
we can give substantial evidence not |
only that we do not want anything out !
Of this war, but we would not accept /
anything out of it, that il is absolutely !
case of disinterested action. And if |
you will watch the attitude of our peo-
pie you will see that nothing etrs them /
so deeply as the assurance that this war
so far as we are concerned, is for ideal
istic objects.
Some time ago | proposed a sort of
pan American agreement. | had per
ceived that one of the difficulties of our
past relationships with Latin America
was this The famous Monroe Doctrine
was adopted without your consent and
without the consent Of any of the cen
trail American or South American states.
We said: We are going to be your big
brother whether you want us TO be or
not
"We did not ask whether it was agree
able to you that we should be your big
brother. We said we are going to be-
Now that is all very well as far as pro-
iecting you from aggression from the
other side of the water was concerned,
but there was nothing in it that protect
ID you from aggression from us and
rave repeatedly seen an uneasy feeling
IN the part of representatives OF the {
states of central and South America that {
'llr self appointed protection might be I
or our own benefit and our own inter
-sts and not for the interests of our !
leighbors. So have said:
Let us have common guarantee t