Show p Ex-p TAfT SAYS WE VYE HAVE BIG FOE mE 10 TO FIGHT I NEW EW YORK May La IS William lS William Ho Howard ard Tart Taft gave save his views on the Mexican I situation situation sit sit- In an address at the the- Free synagogues synagogue's syna- syna gogue's ccle celebration of or Peace Sunda Sunday While th the former president nt express expressed d little hope tope that that the pending mediation conference will accomplish its immediate purpose he asserted the offer oHer of ot mediation media media- lion tion and Dond Its acceptance Is an important step to toward ard the future settlement of ot international in international In- In difficulties In the the western hemisphere He said there I I. I no popular pressure for fora a military policy which the tile tion cannot resl resift t. t He said that the people people people peo peo- are arc determined to do their duty duh even should that duty Involve ol war But for forwar forwar or war ar he ho added the people people- have ha at present present pres pres- present ent little enthusiasm Have Aided Rebel Cause The criticism Mr Ir Taft TaCt leveled at the Wilson administration had to do with the aid which he said the administration administration tion lion had Sinn given to the Mexican constitutionalists constitutionalists It is m my lu Judgment Kment he said aid that if Ir in our courts course toward Mexico during the past pact year ear we we- had not exerted such di direct dl- dl Influence as we have ha to aid one of ot the contending Parties we should not now be so near nar general intervention and war war Asks Aska Aid for Wilson In conclusion he called upon all Americans Americans Ameri Amen cans to aid the pre president In his efforts to find peace pence Mr Mr 11 Taffs TaCt's speech follo follows 1 in part Threatened war between two stable nations Is much ea eail easier r to d deal al with than such uch a condition as IoS confronts us IS In Mexico Mex Mex- ico What Whit ye e e have ha th there re to contend with I Is the dl disease ease of resolution rC Eighty per percent percent percent cent of ot the people are arc ignorant and Il Illiterate illiterate il- il literate A three years years' war has his laid waste vasto the country destroyed 19 its Industry Industry industry Indus Indus- try and exposed all foreigners ners to lawless la violence B and nd all their Investments In there thereto to destruction To Restore Order In such lIuch a case cafe a neighboring nation ma may properly Intervene and h help lp the forces of or law and order to end such uch anarchy Just because it wishes to live vo In a quiet t neighborhood and not from fro froma a spirit of or conquest and greed gred of territory territory terri tern tory But If IC w we are arp to be Involved ol in war because of oC Mexican anarchy let us have ha haveit it fully ull understood that we got Into it In the service Ice of or mankind as 85 th the president nt p phrases r s It It and not upon the I Issue Earle of oC a mere punctilio In naval na ceremonial cere cere- Let us not enter lightly or In in- In- In advisedly ad on a course that tha 1 will Involve ol a sacrifice the tho extent of oC which may well make us pause Need More Troops We have ha say pay oooo mobile troops of the regular arm army fit to take the field fieldIn fieldIn In Mexico If It the available n military iO force of oC Mexicans 1 trained and made hard hardy hrdy b ba by bya a three years jears' war were to be massed against our troop troops vo wo should need a n much larger force Coree than we WI now have ha to capture the large strategic Inland towns |