| Show POLICY OF HOBS OFF ai 8 PRESIDENT WILSON ADVISES STRICT neutrality IN MEX t k ICAN AFFAIRS 11 I 1 explains his Proposal Spurned by huerta 7 and Warp all americana american s to lease Leave mexico at al 0 once rice W co consuls thaid in every way pos sible wash washington in agton president t anvils allson on in person pelton pel ton addressed congress on wednesday I 1 august 27 on tile tho mexican situation as an lolio fo lows wB gentlemen 0 of the congress it la is elearly clearly my duty to lay becore you very fully a and I 1 id without reservation tho the facts concerning our rotations relations with tile tho kep public alto of A mexico exico I 1 the thai deplorable pos ture of affairs in mexico I 1 need not describe tirl bu but I 1 IllyA duty to speak ve very y frankly frankly of 0 what tills this government has done land should seek to do lit in ful all fili ment 0 of its obligation to mexico alerico liori heri jelf s e f as a a L friend and neighbor and to american A n i t r ie a n citizens e whose lives and vital interests are dally daily affected by the adli dl iii conditions condl tlona chioli now obtain beyond our southern border thee conditions touch us very nearly 1 Y not merely because they llo lie at our very doors that of course us more vividly ind and more constantly conscious ot of them and every instinct or of neighborly interest and alid sympathy la it arnsek a and aad ad enterer buic quickened ened ly by them bu but that Js only one element in the determination 0 of our duty we are klad glad to call ourselves our nelven the friends 0 of mexico and we shall sha I 1 hope h 0 have many an occasion in happier 1 times imes t as a s well as in these days of trouble and confusion to show it that bat our friendship la is genuine and disinterested capable ot of sacrifice and every generous gene rouB manifestation on the tha peace prosperity and contentment tent ment of mexico mean more more 19 us than merely an enlarged hold field for or our commerce comme ice ana enterprise they mean an enlargement of the held field of self so f government and the realization of tile the hopes and rights of a nation with whose best aspirations so ao long suppressed sued and disappointed wo we deeply sympathize y ize wei we shall yet prove to the ihu lie mexican x ican people t that hat we know how to serve er ve them without first thinking how we shall w serve ourselves but we are not the only friends of mexico exico bl the whole world desires her pe peace a ce and pro progress gres and tile the whole world weld r Is interested i d as an never before mexico lies at last where all the world looks on central america Is about to bo be touched by the great routes of the world a trade anti and intercourse run ining free from ocean to ocean nt at the isthmus the future has much in store for mexico blex leo as aa for all the states of central america but tile the best gifts fan can couie to her only if she bo be ready an abid free to receive them and to enjoy alivin tin in honorably america in particular cular america north and south and on both continents walts waits on tile development of 0 f mexico al e and that development can be bound so und and lasting tating li only if it bo be ahr product of a genuine freedom a just and a nd ordered government govern men founded on la law only so can it bia be pea peaceful c ful or fruitful of the benefits ot of peace mex ice aco has a great and enviable future before he her r it if only she choose and attain the pat paths ot of honest constitutional govern mont the present circumstances of the republic P bublic I 1 deeply regret to say do not seem to promise even the foundations of such a peace we have halted diahy indeli iia hy Y months months full ot of peril and an d anxiety E for the conditions co adit one t there here to t improve and they have not improved voves they hey have ave grovv worse rather the territory in son i a sort controlled con tolled by t the lie lonal authorities author 1 ties at mexico poy C city alty hai aa grown smal smaller er not larger the prospect of the pacification of the country even by arms tins lias seemed to grow grow morn nor and lid more remote and it its pacification by the authorities at the capital Is bisans evidently impossible by any other means m than force difficulties ties more and more entangle tangie en those who claim to constitute the legitimate gov crement rn ment of the republic they have riot not made good their claim in fact their successes in tile the field have proved c only illy t temporary mp war and disorder devastation v and confusion seem to threaten to become the settled fortune of the distracted co country u As friends we could walt wait no 1 longer tor for a solution which every week m seemed further away aay it was our duty at least to volu ur our good offices 0 f fie es to offer to f wd w D might in electing eleo ting some ar ranger ranae rient ent which would bring relief ind pea leaie and set act up ae a universally r acknowledged ic political authority there Accor accordingly dingy I 1 took the jib liberty arty ot of sending bending the ilea hon ijohn lind formerly governor of minnesota as my personal spokesman po kesman and representative to the city of mexico with the following instructions press very earnestly on the attention of those the who are now exercising xer elsing authority or wielding influence in mexico alexice ico the following considerations and adai ce T the I 1 e government of the united states does not feel at liberty any longer to 0 stand inactively by while it becomes dally daily more and moro more evident that no real progress Is being made toward the establishment of a government at the city of mexico which the country rill fill obey and nd respect the government of the united states staten does not stand in the same case came with the other great governments of the world wor d in r e to what Is happening or r what Is likely to hap happen en in mexico N we ve offer our good offices of ices not only because of our genuine desire to play the part of a friend but also because wo we ire are expected by tie te powers of the world t to 0 act as medicos cos nearest friend we wish to act in these circumstances in the spirit of the most earnest t and disinterested it Is our purpose in whatever we do or propose in this perplexing and distressing distress ina situation not only to pay the most mont regard to the sovereignty s ind independence of that aliat we t take ake as a matter of course to w which aich we are bound by every obil gation of right and honor but also to give every pos po still bible s eviden 0 e that we act in the interest of mexico alone and not in the interest of any person or body of per sons so who may MaYA have ave personal or property claims lit in which they may frel r e 1 that they have the right to press wo we arl are seeking to counsel cou mexico for her own good and in the interest of her own peace and not for any other purpose whatever ver tha rha government of tho the P unit united d states would dem de m itself discredited it if it had any selfish or ulterior purpose in fransa transactions 0 t ions where the peace happiness happl nesa and of a whole people are involved it ii if acal acting 9 as aa its friend friendship sh alre p for mexico not as any any selfish interest dictates the prent pr ent situation in mexico 1 is incompatible with the fulfillment of international ter obligations on the part pait ot of Al mexico exico with th the civilized development of mexico herself and with the tha maln main tenancy of tolerable political anti and economic conditions in central arn america artea it Is upon n icv common oraston oc aslon aston therefore that th the 0 united states otters offers h her er coun I 1 sol I 1 and assistance all america Ai nerita arivs out ter lor it a settlement A satisfactory settlement battlement seems to u us a t to 0 be b conditioned on oil 1 u I oa 00 an cos atlon on of fecht ink I 1 t aiello Aiex lo a benu ite ur ar ni ll 11 1 t C U 10 lo co M ll 11 l l 0 chiert I 1 J 1111 aniu tin A cru pui P u ll 11 b oil d 1 li ti r an early arly una f tree e elect election curay in which als 4 c ull all will ie it agrein p n t tishu parti pun i i 0 oj ti a ell general 11 to I 1 0 bl bind n d hi ac candidate candi in data ator i 0 president tr 0 abo lit I 1 tt nt tills llila an oi J k ix 11 d ino 01 t vi bj all baties pill ties to ab abada I 1 d by tho the c ol tl ath the election elo cllon and cu co in ano to loyid ya way in unit hid tai a no W ad d ill uki tle ino united states will efti alaa to part lit in tills bt t V wt or in its if crying out which 11 Z honorably and consistently 0 wah f tocci i it pledges ledges it alc t to 0 I 1 nd lit in every wa way y 1 lio 00 sib wid to assist the adminta bration ilio aen and soup in 1 text in lie way pie c cOndil 9 aullion nul Lion toni HUB t eted I 1 1 I 1 1 fill all tile tho 1 I g conditions into consideration tho the t ol of the unit united ed states alln coi ioie eive lve 0 of no reasons sufficient to justify those choso wile who aro are now to shape sit it pe tha t I 1 0 pal 0 lcy or exercise tile tho authority of mexico Ale icy in declining tile tha artices ortices of friends lill thus offered can mexico give the th C cl liviA zed il world a satisfactory reason tor for rejecting n reject InK our good offices u mexico cm can suggest any better way in w which aich to show our serve tho the people of 0 mexico and meet our in ternate onal obligation we are more inore than willing to consider the tion lion air lind lila its delicate and difficult mission with willi singular taca arni and good LIUI made maclo c lear clear to lo tile the authorities at the I 1 city of mexico not only alii th purpose ot of hla 1118 visit v isit but also the spirit in which it dmd b been ben undertaken itu but tile l lie he submitted were in it note tho tia ull lull text of 0 which I 1 take tile tiie liberty of 0 laying dying before you I 1 am led I 1 to 0 youl be believe leve that they were rejected partly because tho the lit at mexico city had been grossly formed and blied on two points tho aliey did not realize the spirit ot of the t lie ater american people in this matter mitt cr their earn es axt t friendliness and yet sober determination 1111 ion for r f line ine just solution for or tile tha mexican and they did not elleve believe thit the present nt spoke igei mr land ind for or the people ot alio tl I 1 a united states the ettelt 0 th tills u unfortunate aib oib oi their pl part X rt Is to leavo leave them singularly isolated lao and without friends friend who c cart 1 effectually aid them so long lone as in the tha all u ersland ing continues wo we can only await ad th the 0 time of 0 their awakening tu i la a realization of 0 the actual facts we cannot thrust our good offices upon I 1 bliem t the he situation must be given little I 1 t hemni atle more ore time to work itself out in the now new circumstances and I 1 believe that only a little while will bo be necessary sary ifor the circumstances are new the ilio rejection ot of our friendship makes them will inevitably bring its ita own alternations in the whole aspect of 0 a f calra the a victual et 1 at situation ot of the authorities autho rUlea at it mexico bic 0 city alil presently be revealed Ilean meanwhile while what 1 Is it our duty to do d 0 clearly I 1 everything that we nye do must lo io routed rooted in patience and done dona with calm and disinterested deliberation impatience on our part would be ba childe s ii and would be fraught every risk ti s k 0 wrong and lolly toll y wo ive can c n afford to exercise the self r es of a really great nation which realizes realize s its own strength and scorn acorns to alsus it I 1 it t was wa our dut duty 7 to otter offer our active it la Is now our duty to show what true neutrality will do to enable the people of mexico to set their affairs in order older again and wait for or it a further opportunity tunit y to otter offer our friendly coun sols bel tho the door la is not closed the either on tile the initiative ut 0 I 1 mexico Al exico or on our own ot of the effort to bring brine order out of 0 the coffus contusion sn by friendly cooperative co action should fortunate 0 occasion casion otter offer willie while we wait the contest 0 of the rival fore arces ca wl will I 1 undoubtedly tor for a little it while be ba sharper than ever just because e it will be plain that an end must be made ot of the existing situation anil that very promptly and with tho the increased activity 0 of the e 0 ut ending factions w will 11 come it la is to be feared increased danger to tile the non combatants I 1 in n Alex mexico icci na as well as to those actually i in n the held field of battle the po position altion of oc outsiders Is always particularly trying and full ot of hazard where there Is civil strife and a whole country la is upset wo we should earnestly urita urge ull toll americans to leave mexico at once and should assist them to get away in every ever way possible not because we 10 bourd would mean to alar slacken ken in the least r efforts to safeguard their lives and their interests but because tt it la is imperative that they should take n no unnecessary risks when it Is in physically possible poa sible tor for them to 1 iivo the country we should let everyone who seems to exercise authority in any part pan of mexico know in te most unequivocal way that we anair vigilantly watch the fortunes of those americans who can not set get away and an I 1 sha shall li hold those responsible tor for their buffe sufferings r ingo find anil losses to it a definite reckoning that can and will be plain beyond tile the p possibility osal b clity of a mis vor for tile the rest I 1 deem it my duty to exercise the authority conferred on rne me by the law ot of march 14 1812 1912 to see lee to it that neither side blue ter tho the struggle now going on in mexico receive any assist since mice from this side alda of 0 the border I 1 shall follow tile the best beat practice of 0 nations in the matter 0 of f neutra neutrality ity by forbidding the exportation of arms anna or munitions 0 of war ot of any kind from tits tl a united states to any part of the republic of mexico a policy teo ba t several interesting pre decent and certainly dictated by many manifest con of practical expediency we cannot in the tha circumstances be the pur par tisane ot of elther either parta to the contest content that now distracts mexico or constitute ourselves the virtual umpire between them I 1 ara am happy to say arty that several of the great governments or of the world have this athla government their generous moral support in argi ax on in the provisional authorities nt at tile the city of mexico the acceptance of 0 our proffered rood good offices in the spirit in which they the were made we havo have not acted in tw thin matter under tle ordinary principles of international obligation all AH the world expects us lit in much buch circumstances to net an mericos Alexi cos nearest friend and intimate in at I 1 adviser this Is our immemorial relation towards her there la in no where any serf serious S question that we have h ivo the moral rl 9 it I 1 in n the case so or that wo we are acting in I 1 n tile the interest 0 of a fair settlement and of rood good gover overn ft ment not for th the promotion ot of som sonic Rell lili interest lit 0 rest of 0 our ur own it if further motive were nce necessary essary than our own grood good will towards it sister republic nil and our own deep concern to see ponce and order prevail in central aal Amerl alc ci tills this consent of mankind to what we w anro attempt ing this thin attitude ot of tile the griat nations of the world towards what we may attempt in dealing wit this It stressed at our ur door should make us ft frel el the m more ore solemnly bound to 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