Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-07-27
AFF|RMS MEXICO HAS A STABLE
 GOVERNMENT
Ambassador BOnillas Issues a Statement to the American
 People.


 Washington, July 26.-Despite the operation of few bandits, Mexico has a stable government, foreigners are accorded every protection, Am pasador Bonillas declared today ln a pubic statement on the situation Ill the southern republic addressed to the American people.
 fhe ambassadors statement fol- lows:
 ..Mexico today has a stable gov ernment. True there are some dis trlcts in which few bandits are at large. Mexico is in the aftermath of a clvll war and the conditions In these few areas are, such as have followed such struggles Tn all lands. In your own south,' 1t was many years after Appomatox before conditions were restored to normal and your central government was occupied long time III the work of pacification.
 "ln addition to the after effects ot the civil strife there are parts of Mexico in which conditions today are much like they were m your own west not so many years ago. Your army was kept busy for two genera Jlons by the Indians and bandlts of the west. Within my own memory, the border districts of Mexico were ralded almost constantly by Indians escaping from reservations on your own side of the border. Coopera- tion of the two governments, (treaty of 18S2) in the matter of pursuit oT bandits and cattle thieves across the international line resulted in the suppression of most of these disord- CTS.
 We are now trying to arrange for a renewal of the former system. Foreigners in Mexico today are ac- corded every protection. In few disturbed areas they are occasionally made the victims of bandits but Ill every case the government is de- voting the utmost energy to the pur- suit and punishment of the criminals
 Few Wandering Bandits.
 "A few wandering bandits scatter ed over an immense and spasely set tied country-a country of noun tains and wilderness in part-can keep great many troops busy in pursuit as your own western exper- fences have demonstrated. The Mexican government today is spend ing two thirds of it's national income on the pursuit and punishment o1 bandits. It has an army of over 10000 men engaged in this work anc troops are ever on the heels of these : bands. The whole business is in pro, cess of being wound up at this time Zapata and many other bandit chiefs have been tracked to their lairs anc other small bands are breaking up The Mexican government today ls making a showing in this tremend ous task.
 Mexico has never repudiated any of her international obligations an( will meet every debt which is due She has the resources to discharge every obligation without making an! serious drain on her national wealth and as fast as these assets become available with the revival of indus try she will meet her obligations. II the oil regions, there has not beer one instance of confiscation, nor arr the companies paying royalties. Il 1918, they produced 64,O00,000 bar rels of oil out of potential capacit! of their wells of over 580,0O0,000 bar rels. Their own published balance sheets show their prosperity ant profits.
 "The very intense press propaganda of these days, when the principa bandits are being killed, captured, ol surrendering to the government for ces or disbanding, and when the paci fication of the country is in sight, i interpreted in my country as the las effort of expatriates, members of th old regime of Mexico and their pow erful confederates and politicians il Europe and this country to precipi tate armed intervention, as the. feel that when the complete pacifi cation, the rehabilitation of the in dustries now in suspense, the inten sification of commercial relations ant the general development of the won derful resources of the country ar accomplished facts their drean of tn return of an obsolete despoti system of government, and the em broilment of two nations in armed conflict, will be thing of the past.