Show INTERVENTION WOULD BE AN ENDLESS TASK Henry Lane Wilson Former For For- mer Points Out Difficulties DECLARES HUERTA LEGAL PRESIDENT LEGAL PRESIDENT AI Also o Tells Abo About t Killing of Madero and Creation of De Facto Go Government SPOKANE Wash Oct 18 The IL The government gov gov- emment of cf t Provisional President Huerta of Mexico in Is just a as' as legal aa as the government govern govern- meat ment of ot Roosevelt when whon ho ha t s. succeeded cee cd to tho the presidency after tho assassination of ot President McKinley l declared Henry Lano Lane Wilson former tanner Ignited States States' em em- to Mexico In an address on the tho Mexican situation de delivered vered at a banquet t tendered him here last night President Wilson could recognize Huer Huerta a and still save vo hi face fac as he has boon been t trying t to do cv over since Mr Wilson continued If It President Wilson WIllson does not get behind the Huerta government chaos Is Js going to come and we will have to godown go godown down and take tako care car of oC the country Wo We would have to supervise the election and then the now nw president would be labeled the gringo president A As J soon slon as ou our soldiers had loft left the country the Mexicans Mexicans cans would get out their knives and w wo should have hav to to so go go nack again That would mean controlling the tho country and I all aU tho the countries to tc th the Pen Panama ma canal Intervention would b be all aU right If Ir we stayed there but would be bad for our morals and pocketbooks In discussing tho the condition of ot the lower classes in Mexico Mr Wilson said sald that 50 per percent cent were outcasts and pariahs and were illiterate and that therein lay the root of ot all an revolutions Under those conditions he continued It can easily be understood what what- difficulties my distinguished dis namesake and Mr Bryan would have In establishing an altruistic republic and how tho problem kept Mr Bryan from some of ot his lecture engage engage- ments monts In Mexico Americans own more than all an tho the Mexicans 1 For Fori tho most mOlt part this thin was war acquired hon honestly honestly- but In t spIte of te of h l ern allI ae li tto de deprive vo p I them i SI JY T r N t. t aa tiT ay n r life lIte as take way property Discussing the Madero regime Mr Wilson Wilson Wil WU- Wil- Wil son sari said that four eighty four Americans had been killed In Mexico o and not one murderer murderer murderer mur mur- derer had been punished and that six months prior to the overthrow o of or Madero the entire country wanted It yet ct the death of ot the two Maderos seems to have ha agitated the United States government more than the tho murder of ot the Americans Regarding the part he took in bringing ng about the tho making of ot Huerta provisional president Mr Wilson said Mid The General Huerta and Diaz Diax factions were ere in In- Inthe the capital ready to renew tho the bombardment ned and that while I T was as not so BO Instructed I took Immediate action to prevent pre it The representatives of or the two factions were at tho the embassy seven hours and finally agreed to make Huerta provisional president dent leaving Diaz at liberty to pursue his candidacy No act of ot mine rendered such valuable services to Americana Americans and foreigners In my roy entire car career er and yet the administration at Washington called my act an intrusion Into the policies of ot the country The officials at home homo have queer conceptions of or the tho difficulties of ot their diplomatic representatives I |