Show SUPPRESSED APPEAL MADE BY AMERICANS IN AT LAST BROUGHT TO LIGHT t Tell Administration Officials They Cannot Leave Country and Become Dep Dependent nd nt on Charity of Friends Ask Protection for Lives and Property Property Property Pro Pro- perty Get Only Sympathy from Bryan Is Complaint N J V EW YORK April 24 The The suppressed cable dispatches hes that 1 N passed between the American r residents in Mexico City and andt t the e State Slate State Department at with the Washington dealing g perilous situation pf if foreigners in the harassed republic below the tile Rio Grande and the attitude of the administration on the subject t are printed in the New York Herald The correspondence was con Conk on ducted through J. J M M. M Cardoso la Oliveira Brazilian Minister in Mexico City and was begun almost immediate immediately y after the distribution distribution distri distri- among Americans in Mexico City on March 6 of this cir circular circular dr cular cular- cular IMPORTANT ANT NOTICE The undersigned the tho Brazilian minister in charge of the American interests ts in Mexico presents his compliments to the American citizens resident in in the country and nd in compliance with tho the telegraphic instructions received this morning from the secretary of state Hon Hen W. W J J. J Bryan begs to remind thom thorn of the presidents president's advice to Americans Americana to leav leava Mexico until conditions become settled J J. J M M CARDOSO DE OLIVEIRA Mexico City March Marchi 6 1915 The cable communications follow tollow I Cablegram to Mr W. W J. J Bryan aryan Washington 1 MEXICO EXICO CITY March farch 9 I 1915 The American residents residents- of Mexico City and vicinity 7 In general mooting meeting at the American club In this city have considered carefully nil your OUI cablegram to the Brazilian minister which reads Attention is agnin call called d to the advice of ot the president that Americans leave o Mexico I until conditions become Sc settled t I ed In reply we feel It our duty to explain wh why Americans generally cannot leave lea When lien hen the first advice camo came from u Washington four years ago 00 man many throughout the republic left some left some at the complete sacrifice of ot work of t tears years ears rhe The first revolution ro was victorious and man many Americans returned Another revolution re occurred 1 the advice ice to lea leave v was repeated and a second exodus took place with its inevitable In hardships losses an and 1 sacrifices Optimistic reports public In the United States afterward brought man ninny many back to their abandoned homes mid amid neglected business s where where- these had hadnot hadnot hadnot not been destroyed Then other revolutions re or uprisings and a a. third warning warn Varn log ing to leave which was still obeyed 1 by Increased numbers and amI amIt at t greater sacrifice Imme Immediately after atter the American military occupation of oC Vera Cruz Crus After Arter the Huerta rE regime and on encouraging advices as to peace prospects prospects prospects pros pros- In Mexico man ninny many individual and tam families Illes again came cam back to resume the lie work worl that had perforce bt been cn en abandoned and tho the evacuation e of or Vera VeraCruz VeraCruz VeraCruz Cruz brought still more A Fourth Exodus Impossible A fourth exodus of our people IH in now Impossible considering the large number hero here and the demoralized conditions of ot public order and tion Financial difficulties are arc also too great ll for tor the average crage family to leave leavea a again aln on a voyage of oC thousands of or miles The Mexican IE peso has dropped from 50 cents American n Currency to 13 cents during eight changes of ot the supreme power since the overthrow of ot Diaz In 1911 Thousands of Americans and other foreigners scattered throughout the country find I it quite Impossible to lea leave their all or to 0 abandon positions of trust In charge of ot bu business or property of ot owners In the United States and elsewhere Dut Duty compels them to remain The Mexican political situation is more chaotic and Ind helpless A. A than titan ever The Tho foreigners s of other nati nationalities o our r ne neighbors and and what is for them thom if conditions friends aro are now asking course courso IS open are arc such as to render it necessary for Americans to leave leavo and they look to Americans for counsel Ml All ll foreigners Americans Europeans and others came under treaty and ind international international inte rights by which 1 their lr I persons erS and property were a assured common to civilized cl countries By subscribing to certain tho he protection nf ot th l irp and International rights the United States government a assumed an atlon toward Americans as H Its nationals to the end that our per persons ons be respected according to the tho letter of or tIm the treaties and International Inter Inter- and nd rt prope-rt ro erty national compacts b by which the Mexican g government ve t expressly slY agreed to give c guaranties to foreigners rs residing In Mexican territory We e are are engaged f S Continued on pa page e 6 60 SUPPRESSED APPEAL OF AMERICANS IN MEXICO L from Page 1 In lawful and useful Ye We re respectfully ask from our govern govern- overn- overn meat effective guaranties of oC those rights anti no more The Baltimore Platform Quoted b the national Democratic convention convention con con- by We quote from froni tho platform adopted American citizen residing or having at Baltimore In Every Ever property In nn any foreign n country is entitled to anti and must be Ji given n the full both for himself and his property prop prop- prote protection Uon of the United States government erty If the foreigners should leave leva en masse it would bo be to repeat the late sad experience of the Belgians With many it means to leave behind the savings and other of a lifetime and to arrive arrivo in in the United States or Europe virtually as charges upon public or friends and professional men should U If nIl all foreigners business men hankers hanl of oC the coon coun- of oC what remains time one it would cause l avo at on banks and commerce and industry Innumerable houses try's factories would close entire entirely mines stilt sUIl working would suspend oil all production pro pro- luction would cease many man of the most important public service utilities could not and the already severe ere would vastly vastl of worthy worth Mexican employees out of Increase It Il throw between starvation or aI joining some one of work rork and them to choose the warring factions or plundering bands The great majority of the fifteen millions of Mexican people unarmed victims of violent deeds under the and gEnerally passive 1 are aro guise of revolution and are praying for an end to We reign of oC disorder bloodshed rapine and ami destruction Into which the tho Madero re has degEnerated Owing to rigid censorship of mails and telegrams we cannot communicate cate Cale these facts to our relatives and friends In the United Stat States s and we therefore that you rO give e this statement t tl the s Signed h by a 11 Committee Cablegram sent by Secretary Bryan to the committee in I I Mexico City March 12 1915 Your lour message ha been laid l before the president He does not think it would contribute to the welfare of the Americans there to give your statement to the press lie He asks s me mc to assure you that we understand and sympathize with the situation of oC Americans in Mexico and share their con con- 1 corn and that we are doing everything In our power to improve e the situation atlon I Your attention Is called 1 to the fact that General Carranza in his dispatch to the president after his E to exert himself to the to protect lives anti property of foreigners Indorsed the president advice that Americans temporarily remove from the City of Mexico to somo omo place where they hey could bo be more effectively cly protected General Carranza expressed the same desire In r artl to other foreigners I Signed W. W J. J J BRYAN The Tue Americans in Mexico City In mass meeting express their appreciation of the secretary ot of states slates message of oC March I 12 as corn com to them b 1 the Brazilian minister However they most re- re submit su that It Is their fixed conviction derived from the last four years that the time has come to accept the thc Mexican sit sit- Il- Il nation for what It Is and not for what it might be hoped that It ma may become become be- be come or what interested leaders or warring factions may try to represent It to be Th The record is 18 clearly written In facts which show the true value cit f th tho pretensions of oC the contending groups They note the opinion of tho president that he does not think that it would contribute to their welfare to grant their request to tomake tomake make public their communication of March 9 9 They ask that it be made known to the president that it is their firm that their duty them to take the tho people of the United States and of the cIvilized world into their fullest confidence and in in the interests of humanity to lay before thorn them the whole truth of the Mexican situation arid and in the performance of this duty they earnestly invite and ardently hope for the aid and operation co-operation of the administration far Car to controvert rt the tho systematic misrepresentation misrepresentation They desire In so eo as they can of oC th the Mexican situation to put an end to anti and s sion sian of oC the truth In iii regard thereto and especially as to their own situation situa- situa tion and attitude They are aro not surprised that General Carranza should renew his himself to the utmost to protect lives and promise to exert properties properties prop prop- of foreigners but they submit that the true value of this promise should be estimated by what General Carranza has done and decreed since since his triumphal entry into the City of Mexico on August 15 last The arbitrary biking from Cram Mexicans and foreigners ot of property Including In- In houses horses automobiles carriages furniture mone money and crops the Issuing of decrees so In c contravention of right fairness and Justice as asto asto to be almost IncredIble the deliberate persistent and ill III concealed attempt to lo starve a city of oC Inhabitants depriving them of water fuel and transportation the shipping of defenceless women In locked cattle cars to Yera era Cruz the carrying away or of the controllers of at electric street cars thus paralyzing transit the closing of tho and schools tho holding or of priests for Cor ransom the arrest nd detention oC business men who had assembled at the request of oC the general In charge e of oC the city the persecution of Spaniards the suppression of the tho malls mails and the viola violation lion lionor I or of Beal sealed d correspondence both foreign and domestic tho removal of at public pub pub- lie lic archives and the stripping of public buildings the open Invitation to riot and loot the sacking Hacking or of churches and desecration of oC images the killing kill kill- Ing or of men and the tho outraGing of at women are aro events too recent and well known to permit of their being overlooked o In forming judGment The wantonness wan wan- of at such fluch acts renders it Impossible to lo accept the tho professions of oC these factionists or their counsels counsel us as to the course to be pursued by foreiGners Wish to Aid Washington It Il Is the earnest desire of at the Americans In Mexico to assist the Washington administration to find a solution to tho perplexing International International situation that exists and to this end the they request that their efforts be regarded ns as made In good faith and that their knowledge and enco of the Mexican situation he be accorded full weight The They are willing willingto to make sacrifices It if through them any ultimate good bood ma may accrue to the Mexican people of American prestige but thC they feel eel that thus far the very opposite has been the result They consider that American civilization tion Is on trial and that It has a d duty t to perform to humanity which no longer should be postponed Mexico is drifting toward total destruction from which a mistaken mistaken mis- mis taken altruism Is powerless to save it The present struggle does not represent the efforts of a people to secure liberty and civil rights so much as a clash of personal ambition and revenge Americans In Mexico look to the administration for tor the protection which the believe It Is their due to receive and an l the tho administrations administration's d' d d sire and unquestionable dut duty to afford and the ther further respectfully ex- ex I the hope that their views may be Iven such publicity as ma may effectively ef- ef ely assist the American people In forming a sound opinion on the Mexican situation VI v vI Cablegram received by the American Committee ommittee in Mex- Mex I I ico City to Secretary Bryan March 20 1915 Mex-I Mex i The resolutions adopted at the tho mass meeting of oC Americans and I transmitted b by the Brazilian minister In his dispatch ot of March O have been laid before the presIdent This government j Is doing everythIng In its ILs power for Cor the protection of Americans and other foreigners In Mexico City and will continuo continue to do so It vili deal with each new ney situation as It arises and lend Its most earnest efforts to the relief or of hunger and suffer InS InS' from Whatever cause It is not not willing however to increase the embarrassments of the situation or r. r to bring n new w d upon those present at the tho meetIng by giving publication to the language employed In the tho resolution concerning the tho leaders of the various factions Cablegram sent by the American Committee in Mexico Mex- Mex ico City from Secretary Bryan Ban March 27 1915 The American committee has further confirmation of the tho alarminG shortage of oC stuffs food In the country countr but nevertheless Villas Villa's forces are r reported ported to be seizing stores of oC groin around Claya Celaya and shipping It north while the are still exporting food tood supplies from Vera Cruz Cru that are needed to lessen famine A relative or of the governor or of era Cruz Crux has organized an export company compan with special privileges I Villas military tax levy on the residents of oC Guadalajara amounts tt tb pesos Local uprisings ln 8 In Oaxaca and the isthmus regions Ions against ng all factional governments The gas Aas company had discontinued service In inthis this cit city IJ because unable to get oil all for makinG gas g light corn com compan pan pany has suspended street lighting between 6 and 11 o'clock at al night ho- ho cause of lack of carbons with the tho prospect of oC being obliged ed soon to abandon abandon aban- aban don street lighting II entirely Cablegram sent by the American Committee in the City I I of Mexico to Secretary Bryan April 7 1915 i I Having Havins ample funds provided b by foreigners the international corn com for Cor the relief of the tho destitute Mexicans Is still sUIl unable to get et food tood supplies Into the city Largo Large purchases were made two weeks ago O and andI some cars loaded near Toluca fifty miles from Cram hero hen The Tho supplies not I arriving tho committee sent gent a representative to Toluca with a stron strong letter from Cram President Gonzales Gonzale Garza and the governor of oC the federal ills- ills anti anel also General Palafox but the officials at Toluca will not move mo the shipment claiming a lack Jack of engines and cars The Thie committee has reliable Information that speculators get service from Toluca here by cash payments to officials The Tho committee has been advised to adopt the same game methods In order to the suffering but has refrained The committee is s now confronted by the tho |