Show SECRET GOVERNMENT RESIDENT WESSON'S action in L concealing tho d despairing appeal for protection and succor made mado to iiii bim b by Americans in March ich 10 10 O requires requires' further explanation than tho the simple statement that he considered considered considered consid consid- ered it it unwise Tho world just now is observing ng in Europe the terrible re results re- re s suits of secret diplomacy and of pf government gov gov- behind locked doors The Ull United States Slates wants none of it Sec Secrecy ec mistaken altruism and spineless endurance have dis- dis tho the present administrations administration's tion tion's S 'S policy towards Mexico rexi o from tho the he beginning nning Preconceived ideas have been stubbornly followed and Ol only Y SUC l facts concerning the Mexican situation as us s seemed eme in harmony with those theories were permitted to reach the people The American pub- pub lie has s been told tola but what Washington it k- k khas has wished it to know and uno unofficial f statements however cr true tru have been branded as s false falso if they seemed to challenge the efficacy or the propriety of the settled policy Mr lr Wilson has chosen utterly to mistake the character of the struggle that has been going forward in tho The war torii republic to the south Bandits Bandits Bandits' Bandits Ban Ban- merely bent on pill pillage ago have seemed to him hini garbed in the chaste mantle of patriotism Soldiers of fortune for- for fortune tune eager cager for nothing but their own advancement have been glorified by him into heroes lead leading a n struggling people upward towards towards- tho the light of freedom Whatever developments appeared to prove pro the inaccuracy ina cUracy of his conception he lIe has dismissed as negligible or sought to conceal from tho the American people that they thc might be without facts upon which to base an honest j judgment MR WILSON MISTAKEN r A statesmen who one L year ago warned Mr l Wilson Vilson against preferring one Mexican cutthroat cutthroat cut- cut throat an and murderer above another I Mexican cutthroat and murderer were pilloried because the tho Wilson glamour still obsessed the tho country Those who saw v no difference in character and conduct between Huerta and Carranza Carranza Car- Car ranza rauza or Huerta and Villa were denounced de dc- as enemies to the flag Others who urged the recognition o ot or the theL L Huerta government g because thc they sa sain sau sm in it the tho sole hope bope of restoring order were were- scornfully accused of placing premium ulU upon mur murder er and nd treachery Twelve Twel months however have c vindicated vindicated vindi vindi- indicated the thc administrations administration's critics critic andI and I proven oven cn heat hO greatly mistaken even if u the pl President hall had been Am Americans Americana in Mexico City have forwarded for- for warded a n. description of conditions there that should l at last awaken tho the President to their rate desperate need They paint a picture horrible in the extreme hut but stamped with the thc convincing con con- impress of truth Its is ts sponsors sponsors sponsors' spon spon- sors soFa are aro not temporary ary sojourners in inthe thu the Mexican capital who have been stampeded by un unaccustomed contact with the products by-products of they thoy are aro persons who have lived there for years yeal'S intimately acquainted with the country and the OJe character of the people p-co- p pee peo pie le and fully conversant with tho the quality pf if tho the leaders of the struggling factions President Wilson's Wilsons f firm jaw ja perhaps perhaps perhaps per per- haps indicates Why thy lie he so 60 ob obstinately tely held to his bis first conception of the 1 Mexican caD struggle Ho lIo i is m most delightful delightful de de- dc- dc when ben most human and the entirely entirely entirely en en- human unwillingness to confess himself in tb the wrong is shared red by most of us Few will ill criticize him fore for that The country is disposed to forgive unless he continues in iu the face o of this thi latest testimony at first hand hand to cling to his bis mistaken attitude atti atti- i tude and to invest rival rhal bandits and murderers murderer rs with wilh the tho attributes attributes' of self self- ff t j jt i. i i i t I. I r. t T t f J 4 I Ii I t rj t tt t T J sacrificing patriots rescuing their brethren from injustice AMERICAS AMERICA'S PROBLEM EM I THIS TillS appeal from American nationals na- na 1 resident in in Mexico City clothes tho the Mexican problem in a new and compelling guise It makes the question wholly holl our 1 own It may mar be questioned whether wo owe o ci civilization liza- liza tion so great reat an obligation as th the restoration of or order in Mexico It may bo be doubted whether wo we enjoy tho the moral right to interfere in tho the internal internal inter inter- nal ual affairs of a fre free and in independent republic for which only th the broadest principle of international brotherhood could hold us responsible But there can can bo be no q question estion as to our dut duty towards towards to- to towards to to- wards our own citizens wo we 0 must protect protect protect pro pro- them President Wilson may answer this appeal as he lie has hns others before it b by advising these thes Americans to return to the United States The Tho last Jast advice of that sort was as given according to an an American at Mexico City when hi j I must have known there was no railroad railroad railroad rail rail- road exit Such advice is not the I solution of the tho problem These These- Americans Amer Amer- Americans have the right to demand the tho prot protection of their government They have na property interests there that departure departure departure de de- de- de would forfeit many of them tr 4 1 frn nf nn nf U b LUV J labor It p t is little short hort of contemptuous ous disregard of their l' l interests tp suggest they sacrifice their patrimony because their home government is unwilling unwilling un un- un- un willing or con considers iders itself una unable le to protect them Firmness at t Washington would long since have bave solved the Mexican Mex can problem so far as concerns tho the United States State Any ADy indication that our OUI government government gov gov- really meant any of l the thousand and one warnings it has is issued issued issued is- is sued to one Mexican bully or another would have brought the desired re ye- suIt sult So many demands have o been I Imade made and so many ignored that if the Mexican l people ople hold anything but cont contempt for the government of the United States the they must be wholly incapable incapable in incapable in- in capable of connected thought and of forming conclusions from stated facts Even en tho Huerta incident resolute as that should have hn-e made Washington appear passed passed without appreciable effect After sitting in Vera Yera Cruz for months and giving that pestilential the second thorough dis dis- infect infection on and cleansing it ever hat hail we feebly withdrew and delivered the cit city over 0 to tOI the tho particular thief that happened to be in the neighborhood Whatever of respect the American flag may have earned by hy the invasion in it lost by bv the manner of withdrawal Wo We V 0 ente entered cd Mexico i with bloodshed upon the most pitiful excuse that could bo be conceived then abjectly abandoned the only advantage the bloodletting could possibly have en ci us AN EXPLANATION DUE P PRESIDENT RESIDENT WILSON doubtless considers this a most unpropitious time to be looking for trouble and the country with him The rhe pos jos possibilities of dangerous dang complications with the tho European belligerents arc are too tO grea great for us wantonly to become s so 59 intensely embroiled elsewhere we cannot protect our interests abroad There arc are however conditions a self self- respecting nation naHon if it means menns io to continue continue continue con con- so cannot endure Continued refusal to succor its own citizens when they appeal for help is n of them This exposure of Mexico City conditions conditions conditions con con- should not pass without an explanation cx- cx pJ nation f from ou the American gov govern govern- rn- rn ment It hits has sought to conceal from fromi i its s own people the f facts as to its oper oper- It has att attempted to throw about its s dealings with Mexico the same veil eil of secrecy behind which tho the negotiations with Japan are going for for- forward ward It has adopted th the surreptitious surreptitious Hons methods of European diplomacy that have brought about the tho greatest war known to to history Every device known to the old oM world chancelleries has bas been in incorporated int into American dealings with the world and tho the people peo peo- p would liko like to know why this should be f I It is idle to attack Secretary y Br-y Bryan Brsan m mas as the American nationals in Mexico l City appear disposed to do o. o Mr Bryan is only tho the a figurehead jv peripatetic peri pen c nn e evangelist and ex exhorter orter Mr Wilson Vilson is the do f facto Secretary of State S |