Show 82 NEUTRAL stang IN MEXICAN PRESIDENT WILSON ADVOCATES POLICY OF HANDS OFF AND neutrality IN MEXICO outlines hla his peaceful proposals Pro poala to mexico and their rejection and voices an urgent appeal for all americans americana to leave that country wash washington I 1 agton president d e nt woodrow emison appeared before congress con groBB gregs on wednesday august 27 and reve revealed aled bow the huerta provisional government in mexico bad rejected the tr friendship of the united states and its efforts to aid in the establishment of peace and a government which could be recognized by this nation and which would be obeyed aud and respected own in a statement which breathed regret and sympathy in every phrase tho the president clung tenaciously to optimism as to the ultimate result notwithstanding the pessimistic facts confronting the two nations after the hopelessness for or mexico it if she maintained her present position isolated and without friends who can effectually aid her the president announced the necessity ot of a firm neutral stand by this government a policy of halias hahns oft off to await the time of 0 medicos cos awakening lie he also voiced an urgent appeal for all americans to leave mexico and for the united states to ald them thein in every possible way but in emphatic ian language served notice upon those who assume to exercise authority in the revolution torn country that they would be held to a def defluiter luite reckoning cor losses and suffering of american dueon t the message of tho the president preal dent was with enthusiastic applause ly y members of the house and senate gat bored in joint session in the house bouse chamber and the machinery of the government Is in motion for making effective the tb policy of neutrality and hands bands off the warring tac fac conti continue nite their if a ruggle gle i foreign powars have not been ask d to place an embargo on the ship nent of munitions of war or arms to Id mexico exico tut but the president in his bis roes mes laage asage asserted that this government bad been given the moral support of foreign nations in the proposals Is to the huerta government which have bave been rejected in his message which was in the nature of an appeal to tho the moral forces of this md and foreign nations the president made it clear that he ha based high kapes hopes upon the effect the announcement of this governments covern menta ments policy would have not only on tho the people of this coun country try and the governments of other cautions cat nat ions lons but upon the people of mexico themselves now that the united states has exhausted tho the effort to bring about peace and a stable novem government in mexico the president believes bel levea that this governments example to the will avail great good in the end the rho steady presume presure of moral force he said will before many days break the barrios barries of pride and prejudice flown down and we shall triumph as medicos cos friend sooner than we could triumph as her enemy and how much more handsomely with how much higher and liner finer satisfaction of conscience and of honor the tha president told congress that everything this nation did in the situ aaion confronting it must be rooted in patience and done with calm disinterested te rested deliberation ile he had no word of rebuke for mexico and reached the determination to maintain strict neutrality after having presented tho the whole situation to the of the foreign relations com coin watters roat torB in congress not an essential detail did the president withhold ln in his bis presentation of the caso case for the public publishing also to the world the reply of the mexican government to mr lind in which senor gamboa refers to the american proposals as humiliating denies the representation tion by president wilson that mexico bad not made progress toward peace and though expressing appreciation of the avowed friendly intent of the united states declares that it such good offices are to be of the char otter ater now tendered us we should have to decline them in the most categorical and definite manner everything that mexico had said to this hla government in response to the proposals was made public including the he huerta alternative that nothing could be welcomed except unrestricted recognition of hla his government |