Show DAILY DAIt Y HASKIN LETTER LETTERI MEXICO I The VL-The The Present Situation I I By J. J HASKIN An In International was DS averted wh whon Jn oil camo to the tho of the tho Mexican We have seen how the situation advanced from bad to th worse ore until President Huerta announced thit a general oloe tion for a a. pre i ent entice ice president a aa aad aada a new congress would be hold on Oc tober 28 25 But no mention has has' yet been ma mao lo of the met tat the mo most t unto acuto international interest centered around i too great groat oil aU field of Mexico which were being d b by Lord head hoad of the BritIsh firm of 8 Pearson Pearon Son This ThiB lve and English buein 68 aa a Sir man built the East rIver tunnel tun tun- nel at New York ond aud under an ar ar- rith th the tho Mexican ve ment th the r railway rail rail- way wai Sauna Salina Cruz on the rhe Pacific to on the Caribbean He HeIe 1 Ie S a Liberal in pOlitiC havin sM sat ft a member of an and quite recently Lovd Lold Murray furray formerly too tuo of EUbank and Liberal whip In the ot of 8 a partner in PearSon Co Gaming Gaining v vast st influence with th the old Diaz government Lord Cowdray sought Bought and obtained a concession for the tho Oil comp nj in the oil fields eld of Chiapa Tabasco Vera Cruz In the Vailo d district of Also additional rights covering co the lakes and lagoons of Vera era Cruz Vast sums of mono money wore were expended before the It weUn weIl began to yield but the tho concessions had been proved enormously valuable bY br the time that nav naval l n tho p of oil and the British was realizing that in fn aU all aUthe the empire empire- thoro was scarcely enough nough oil free freo from the political control of other to to supply the fuel needs of the ro royal al navy in time of War President Madero Suspicious President Madero looked with cion upon the concession JT to the Pearson interests and Lord Lordt Cowdray I wu was justly of the of Modera Madora toward the t-ho con concession granted bY the Diaz government The attributed to Lord dray Cow a a. large share abaro of the responsibility for forthe forthe the constant plotting against the Madero government During the election campaign of 1911 General M dero wrote a lotter stating that foreign capital would be subjected ted to no persecution on in the tho event of his election Immediately he took office ho dirc directed ted Jose Cas an eminent lawyer to investigate the Aguila n and the tho result was a a. report attacking its ihl on the score of constitutionality the approval of the conCession by congress President Madero insisted that his statement could not be construed to protect illegal con con- s but that on the contrary be had bad frankly declared his purpose to oppose the formation of all kinds of monopolies and combinations in restraint re- re of competition Although he placed the tho Agulla Aguila concession hold held by the tho Pearson in this category it vos never actually tunny cancelled and the exploitation ot of the fields golds was continued Hints of th the part play played d in Mexican Ie can polities politics by the oil interests b became ame more and more more frequent as the tho election approached and it was as even reported that President Huerta pr proposed to na- na tho oil resources of Mexico ri and d pro propose sc their leasing to foreign interests Suddenly on October 11 11 1913 1013 dent Huerta arrested and imprisoned members of toe the house bouse of ot of the tb de de- deputies 8 on charge tans tails of ne never or became clearly r known in the United States Ho pr pro claimed himself dictator On the same day Sir Lionel Carden who had been appointed British minister to Mexico and had bad arrived t th the capital some sometime time timo before pres presented his credentials This was a disagreeable surprise to the theW W Washington n government which bad felt that President Huerta was on bi bil his l last t le legs Sir Lionel Cardon's Carden atti tude during runny years ears ser service co in American in-American cou countries tn 8 c. c u ed Washing ton to regard him M as anti For him to extend British I I Ito to Huerta by presenting n his credentials at tho dramatic moment constitutional Was t again upset was a so se yore ore blow blo to the American policy The Tho ThoI Wilson administration felt that I Huertas Huerta's J lease aso of lifo life as president had I been gratuitously extended Seeks Books to Prolong Authority I President Wilson Wilo promptly notified the site Huerta that no harm must come coma to the imprisoned deputies and on October 14 convinced thai Huerta mer ly Jr sought Bought t to prOlong his own authority notice that the United States would recognize zo the roo ro- snIt of no election held under the pro pro- conditions The Iho international phase of the situation situa situa- tion became acute Germany and France started warships for the can const coast Huerta announced that the elections would be held notwithstanding the American objections but President Wilson took care to make known his views on tho situation before the poll log ing day arrived II Government stained by blood cannot endure ho said at Pa on October 25 Two days later at Mobile Ala President Wilson without mentioning Mexico enunciated a corollary of tho Monroe which promises to mark Its it most and significant do- do since the Venezuelan boundary bound bound- ary dispute te during the Cleveland Cleeland nd ad- Subsequent developments indicated that the president had tho British oil in mind when ho he said II States that are oblIged because their territory does docs not lie he within the main field of modern enterprise and to grant concessions aro in this condition that foroi foreign n interests are arc apt tC dominate their affairs a a. condition I Ot always dangerous and apt to become rable What those states are re going gOinE to see therefore is an emancipation rom the subordInation which has bas been table to foreign enterprise and an as of the tho character which in spite of the c difficulties they thoy have bae again and again boon been able ablo to demon demon- strate I II Thoy h have Vc had harder bargains driven with them in the tho matter of loans than any other people in the world Interest ha has boon ben exacted of them that was not exacted of anybody v velse else because the risk was said mid to to be bC I greater and then securities were taken that destroyed the risk risk-an admirable arrangement ement for those who were for forcing ing the tho II Human rights national integrity anti and opportunity as a against material in In- that ladies and aud gentlemen is the issue which wo we now have o to face T I want to take this occasion to say that the U United States will never again seek one additional foot of territory by conquest She will devote to showing that sh she knows how to make honorable and fruitful use of territory terri tern tory she has and she ahe must regard it as one of the duties of friendship to see that from no quarter are arc human inter interests superior to to h human liberty and national opportunity To Hold Elections Void President had declared declare that although ho was not a candidate that he had heard that some friends would vote for him anyway and that if they thov did id it in largo large number ho he would holt hold the elections void The election on October G 6 Was a farce The federal garrisons cast their votes for Huerta Although there to have boon been no count it wa was indicated that Gamboa camo second and F Felix Dian Dia Diana a poor third The constitutionalists ro rc fused to reco recognize the election eJection as legal and did not vote oto President declared the tho election void aid so 10 far nf as president and nd vice ic president wore were concerned con con- corned hut legal ns as to congress a view yiew in Which hid the Washington government o nt flatly refused to agree President YB Wil son SOD felt that Huerta sought only a pro lon ot of his dictatorship and ana in line ine with tho policy volie outlined in the Mobile speech R O notice to him and to th th world that the United States would refuse re- re fuse fuso to recognize ze as valid any com concessions conces- conces cg made by bJ the new congress which Huerta and addressed with assurances that ho would proceed to the pacification or of the country Although the tho state department at Washington ane null the tho foreign office at I London maint ined outward calm the press comment on both hoth si sides cs of I tho A Atlantic to strain An Anglo Anglo- lo Ameri friends un ip The Tho British prIme Ur Mr cleared the air wIth n a sOch h at the Lord Mayors Mayor's banquet banquot on November 10 He said aid Mexico is still in the throes of civil war but there never was us and sorer nover i l be any question by Great Britian in n the tho dom domestic concerns of Mexico or r In t the e Central American or South American states It It Is ia no part of our duty to prevent or to control civil Wars mars The utmost that we ve can cau do is to give what pro is is possible on the coast to British subjects and Mr Ir bat since Great Grent ha had recognized Huerta on March larch 31 as the only per person on likely to restore order tho change chango of ministers later no change chango of He declared his confidence that n thing could happen to disturb British an American resolve resol to maintain a understanding Denies Influencing Appointment Lord during November began be be- gan to answer tho stories circulated regarding hi hig share in can enn affairs Me Io denied Influencing the appointment of Sir Loud Lonel Carden as minister to Mexico or that he or his interests had financed tho government further than thau to supply about 3 per cent of a small loan negotiated two months Ho Ha do do- dared that ho on E sought ht no oil monopoly and that neither ho he nor lila his interests had taken part in or aided the effort to overthrow President Madero Through tho American charge d daf al fairies and John Lind the United States continued Its effort to force the retirement of Pr President ident Huerta but he hun hung on desperately The rhe constitution constitution- moved on Tuxpan md anti during the week ek of November 23 gained gainell possession ion of th Aguila c company's oil fields and served td notice Lord on Cowdray's that their property would be betaken betaken taken if an any further of oil were verc sold to the Mexican railway which burns burn oil almost exclusively The Tho sale of oil and the tho con con- ha hailed this a as the thc reat reat- st vj victory tor of the cam campaign giving them the tho power of suspending the fi fic so important to movement mo of govern govern- overn ment troops Negotiations were between bet Viliam Bayard Baard halo unofficially President Wilson and ana Gen General ral Carranza first chief of the constitutionalists eon con I who hoped for froth tl United states or at least for removal of tho embar embargo o irn im po posed ed upon the thc exportation of med med- can arms and munitions of war to the As' As the revolutionists approached Tux nan oan an and encircled the back of Tampico Rear A Admiral miral Friday F. F Fletcher commanding the tho Am forces on the gulf con coast t sent to these ports wIth orders to land ma 1 es and if lt if became necessary ary to safeguard foreign interests The British government o ordered n a cruiser division und f Rear Admiral Sir Christopher Chris Chris- Cra Cradock ock to waters but immediately ho he arrived lio ho waived Ills his hiss s superior rank his was issued is is- sued prior to Boar Admiral Fletchers Fletcher's and agreed to leave the initiative in all matters of policy to the American commander er as representative of the tho nation ot of greatest reat st material M as aswell well woH as d political interest in Mexico There Thero the tho situation tool when on December 2 President ident Wilson in his first a address dress to congress said id There I can be no c certain prospect of peace cace in America until General Huerta has JaS surrendered his usurped authority in Mexico it is is understood on nil han hands s indeed that such pretended governments will not ho be countenanced or dealt with by the government of the United States Wo Vo are aro the tho friends of constitutional in Amen Ameri ca we are more than its friends we e arc aro its champions because in no other way can our neighbors to whom Wo we would woud wisa in every overy way to make proof of our O work out their own development de in and |