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Show REVISES PllCr I01M MEXICO PRESIDENT PLANS TO RESTORE ORDER IN NEIGHBORING REPUBLIC RE-PUBLIC IF POSSIBLE. Notice is Served on the Leaders Factions That Unless They Cease Warring, United States Will Take a Hand. Washington. All factions In Mexico Mex-ico have been publicly called upon by President Wilson in the name of the United States government "to accommodate accom-modate their differences" and set up a government that can be accorded recognition. rec-ognition. Failure to unite in a movement to bring peace to Mexico "within a very short time," it was announced in a statement telegraphed on Wednesday to Generals Carranza, Villa, Zapata and others, would constrain the United Unit-ed States "to decide what means should be employed" in order to save the people of the southern republic from further devastations of internal warfare. The text of the statement which goes to Carranza, Villa, Zapata and Garza, the principal leaders, not as a diplomatic note from the United States, but as a declaration of President Presi-dent Wilson's attitude, expressed in a statement to the American people, is as follows: "For more than two years revolutionary revolu-tionary conditions have existed in Mexico. The purpose of the revolution revolu-tion was to rid Mexico of men who ignored ig-nored the constitution of the republic and used their power in contempt of the right of its good people, and with these purposes the people of the United States instinctively and generously gen-erously sympathized. But the leaders of the revolution, in the very hour of their success, have disagreed and turned their arms against one another. "All professing the same objects, they are nevertheless unable or unwilling unwil-ling to co-operate. A central authority author-ity at Mexico City is no sooner set up than it is undermined, and its authority author-ity denied by those who were expected expect-ed to support it. "Mexico is apparently no nearer a solution of her tragical troubles than she was when the revolution was first kindled. And she has been swept by civil war as if by fire. Her crops are destroyed, her fields lie unseeded, her work cattle are confiscated .ot the use of the arnied factions, her people flee to the mountains to escape being drawn into unavailing bloodshed and no man seems to see or lead the way to peace and settled order. There is no proper protection either for hef own citizens or for the citizens ot other nations resident and at work within her territory. Mexico is starving starv-ing and without a government. "In these circumstances the people and government of the United States cannot stand indifferently by and do nothing to serve their neighbors. They want nothing for themselves in Mexico. Mex-ico. Least of all do they desire to settle her affairs for her, or claim any right to do so. But neither do they wish to see utter ruin come upon her, and they deem it their duty as friends and neighbors to lend any aid they properly can to any instrumentality which promises to be effective in bringing about a settlement which will embody the real objects of the revolution constitutional government and the rights of the people. Patriotic Patriot-ic Mexicans are sick at heart and cry out for peace and for every self-sacrifice that may be necessary to procure pro-cure it. Their people cry out for food and will presently hate as much as they fear every man in their country, or out of it, who stands between them and their daily bread. "It is time therefore that the government gov-ernment of the United States should frankly state the policy which, in these extraordinary circumstances, it becomes its duty to adopt. It must presently do what it has not hitherto done or felt at liberty to do lend its active moral support to some man or group of men, if such may be found, who can rally the suffering people of Mexico to their support in an effort to ignore, if they cannot unite, the warring war-ring factions of the country, return to the constitution of the republic so long in abeyance and set up a government govern-ment at Mexico City which the great powers of the world can recognize and deal with, a government with which the program of the revolution will be a business and not merely a platform. "I therefore publicly and very solemnly sol-emnly call upon the leaders of factions fac-tions in Mexico to act, to act together, to-gether, and to act promptly, for the relief and redemption of their prostrate pros-trate country. I feel it to be my duty to tell them that, if they cannot accommodate ac-commodate their differences and unite for this great purpose within a very short time, this government will be constrained to decide what means should be employed by the United States in order to help Mexico save herself and serve her people." |