| Show REVISES TOMB PRESIDENT PLANS TO RESTORE ORDER IN neighboring RE PUBLIC IF POSSIBLE notice Is served on an the leaders leaden of factions that unless they coast cease warring united states will take a hand i washington Dri all factions in MCA fee have been publicly called upon by president blit wilson in n the name naine of the united states government to accommodate their differences and set bet up it government that can bo be accorded roc rec ignition tion failure to unite in ili a movement to rang bring pence peace to mexico within a very short fiort time it was waa announced in a statement telegraphed on wednesday to generals carranza villa zapata and others would constrain the united states to decide what means means should ie be employed in order to save the people of 0 the southern republic from further devastations of internal warfare wat faro the text of the statement which goes to carranza villa zapata and garza tho the principal leaders not as a diplomatic note from tile united states but as aa h a declaration of president wilsons Wll Wil sons attitude expressed in a statement tat ement to the american people Is as foil follows aws for more than two years revolutionary conditions have existed in ili Al mexico exico tho the purpose of tho the revola tion was to rid mexico of men who ignored tile the constitution of the republic and used their power in contempt ot of the right of its good people and with these purposes tile the people of the united states instinctively and generously sympathized but tho the leaders of 0 the revolution in ili the very hour of their success have disagreed and turned their arms against one another all professing the tiamo objects they are nevertheless unable or ungil i line to cooperate A central authority at mexico city Is no sooner set act up than it la Is undermined undermine and its authority I 1 y denied by those who were expected d t ii it mexico la Is apparently no nearer a solution of her troubles than sho he was when the revolution was first kindled and she has haa been sweat by civil war as if by fire iler her crops aro are destroyed iles troyed her fields lie unseeded her work cattle are confiscated tor for tile use of the armed factions her people flee to the mountains to escape being drawn into unavailing bloodshed and no man seems to see or lead tho the way to peace and settled order the e Is no proper protection either for her own citizens or for tile tho citizens or of other nations resident and at work within her territory mexico Is starving and without a government in these circumstances the people and government ol of the united states cannot stand indifferently by and do nothing to serve their neighbors they want nothing for themselves in mex alex fcc fee least of all do they desire to her affairs for her or claim any right to IQ do so 09 dut but neither do they wish to soi see utter ruin come upon her and they deem it their duty as aa friends arlenda and neighbors to lend any aid they properly can to any instrumentality which promises to bo be effective in bringing about it a settlement which will embody the real objects of tho the revolution constitutional government and the rights of 0 the people patriotic mexicans are sick at heart and cry out for peace and for every 01 cry self sacrifice that may he be necessary to procure it their people cry out for food and will anvill presently hato hate as much as aa they fear every man in ili their country or out of it who stands between them an and d their dally daily bread it 13 time therefore eforo that tho the government of tho the united states should frankly franley state the tha policy which lu in these extraordinary circumstances it becomes its duty to adopt it must presently do what it has not hitherto dono done or felt at liberty to do lend its active moral support to some man or group of men it if such may bo be found who can rally tho the suffering people of Alex mexico to their support in fit an effort to ignore it they cannot unite tile warring factions of tho the country return to the constitution of tile the republic so long in abeyance and set act up tip a govern went ment at mexico city which the great powers of the world can call recognize and deal with a government with which the program of tho the revolution will ie be a business and not merely a platform 1 I die publicly and very solemnly call upon the leaders of factions in mexico to act to act together and to act promptly for the relief and redemption of their prostrate country I 1 feel it to be my duty dutt to tell them that if they cannot accommodate their differences and unite tor for this great purpose within a very short time this government will be constrained to decide what means meana should be employed by tho the united states in order to help mexico save cave herself and serve her people |
