The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1918-06-20
WILSON ADDRESSES
MEXICAN EDITORS
WASHINGTON MESSAGE PREsI-
DENT EXPRESSES SINCERE
FRIENDSHIP FOR MEXICO.
WESTERN WORLDS BIG BROTHER
Peace Can Only Come BY Trust. II
You Once Get A Situation Of
Trust You Have Peace.

Havana.-President Wilson in his
address to the Mexican newspaper
editors in Washington, last Friday, ex-
pressed sincere friendship for Mexico.
His address was printed here Tues
day, having been withheld from publ
cation in the United States until the
text should have had time to reach the
press of Mexico.
President Wilson said, in part:
Some time ago 1 proposed sort
of Pan-American agreement. / had
perceived 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 Central American or South
American states. We said: We are
going to be your brother, whether you
want us to be or not
1--WE did not ask whether ii was
agreeable to you that we should be
your big brother. We said we are
going to be.
protecting you from aggression from
the other side of the water was con-
cerned, but there was nothing in ii
that protected you from aggression by
us, and / have repeatedly seen an un-
easy feeling on the part of representa-
tives of the states of Central and
South America that our self-appointed
protection might be for our own benefit
and our own interests and not for the
interests OF our neighbors. So / have
said:
Let us have a common guaran-
tee that all of us will sign a declara-
ton of political independence and
territorial integrity. Let us agree
that if any of us, the United States
included, violates the political in
dependence or territorial integrity OF
any of the others, all the others will
jump on her. ..
NOW. that is the kind of agreement
that will have to be the foundation of
the future life of the nations of the
world, gentlemen. The whole family
of nations will have to guarantee to
each nation that no nation shall vio-
late its political independence or its
territorial integrity.
THAT is the basis-the only con-
ceivable basis, for the future peace of
the world, and | must admit that
was anxious to have the states or the
two continents of America show the
way to the rest of the world as to how
to make basis for peace.
Peace can only come by trust. If
you can once get situation of trust
then you have got a situation of per-
manent peace. Therefore, every one
of us owes it as patriotic duty to his
own country, to plant the seeds of
trust and of confidence instead of the
seeds of suspicion and variety of in
terest
"The policy of administration to-
ward Mexico was in every point based
upon the principle that the internal
settlement of the affairs Of Mexico
was none of our business; that we had
no right to interfere with or dictate to
Mexico 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 impos-
sible.
I'VE had no desire to use our troops
for any other purpose and ] was in
hopes that by assisting in that way
and thereupon Immediately withdraw
ing. might give substantial truth OF
assurance that / had given your gov
eminent through President Carranza.
"At the present time 1t distresses
me to learn that certain influences,
which I assume to be German in their
origin, not only are trying to make a
wrong impression throughout Mexico
as to the purpose of the United States,
but to give an absolutely untrue &C
count of things that happened.
1--WE 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 I 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 that we
would not accept anything out of it;
that It is absolutely case of disinter
ested action.
And IL you will watch the attitude
of our people you will see that nothing
stirs them SO deeply as the assurances
that this war so far as we are con
eerned is for idealistic objects. -