The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-07-27
MEXICO HAS STABLE
GOVERNMENT, ENVOY
At WASHINGTON SAYS
BONILI.AS COMPARES PRESENT
STATUS WITH THAT OF SOUTH
AFTER CIVIL WAR

Washington, July 2G.-Despite the op'
GRAFTON of u few bandits in some dis
tricts, Mexico has stable government,
and foreigners are accorded every pro
lection, Ambassador Bonillas declared
today in n public statement on the situ-
alton In the southern republic. addressed
to the American people, The ambassa'
doris statement follows:
Mexico today has "A stable govern
ment. True, there are some districts in
which a few bandits are at large. Mex
leo is in the aftermath of a civil war,
and the conditions in these few areas
are such as have followed such strug
giles in all lands. In your own South
it was many years after AppomattoX
before conditions We're restored to nor
NAL and your central government was
occupied a long time in the work of
pacification.
I'm addition to the after.effects of the
civil strife, there are parts of Mexico in
which conditions are much like they
were in your own West not so many
years ago. Your army was kept busy
for two generations by the Indians and
bandits of the West. Within my own
memory the border districts of Mexico
were raidcd almost constantly by In
dams escaping from reservations ON
your own side of the border. Co-opera.
tion of the two governments treaty of
1882 in the matter of pursuit Of ban
dts and cattle thieves across the in
ternational line resulted in the sup
preston of most of these disorders.
Says Foreigners Are Protected
I'VE are now trying to arrange for a
renewal of the former system. Foreign
ers in Mexico today are accorded every
protection. In the few disturbed areas
they are occasionally made the victims
of bandits, but in every case the gov
ernment is devoting the utmost energy
to the pursuit and punishment of the
criminals.
"a few wandering bandits scattered
over an immense and sparsely settled
country country of mountains and
wilderness in part-can keep great
many troops busy in pursuit, as your
own western experiences have demon
strated. The Mexican government today
is spending two-thirds of its national
income on the pursuit and punishment
of bandits. 1t has an army OF over
$4,000 men engaged in this work, and
troops are ever on the heels of these
bands. The whole business is in pro
cess of being wound up at this time.
Iapata and many other bandit chiefs
have been tracked to their lairs, and
other small bands are breaking up The
Mexican government today is making a
showing in this tremendous task
Mexico has never repudiated any of
meet every debt which is due. She has
the resources to discharge every obliga-
tion without making serious drain on
her national wealth, and as fast us these
assets become available with the revival
of industry, she VIII meet her obliga
tons.
Denies Oil COnfiscation
"In the oil regions there has not been
one instance Of conflscation, nor are the
companies paying royalties. In 1918
they produced $4,000, 900 barrels Of oil.
Their own published balance sheets
show their prosperity and profits.
THE very intense press propaganda
of these days, when the principal ban.
dts are being killed, captured or sur.
rendering to the government forces or
disbandng, and when the pacification of
the country is in sight is interpreted in
my country as the last effort Of expatri-
ates, members of the old regime Of Mex
leo and their powerful confederates and
politicians in Europe and in this country
to precipitate armed intervention, as
they feel that when the complete paci.
hcation, the rehabilitation of the in
dustries now in suspense, the intensif1.
cation Of commercial relations and the
general development of the wonderful
resources of the country are accom-. |
plished facts, their dream of the re.
turn of an absoete despotic system of
government, and the embodiment of
two nations in armed conflict, will be a |
thing of the past"