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Show EX-AMBASSADOR ? PREDICTS CHAOS Henry Lane Wilton Would Recognize Huerta Govern-, Govern-, ment Intervention Expensive. M m Spokane Wash., Oct. 18. "The gov- 11 ernment of Provisional President Hu-I Hu-I erta of Mexico Is just as legal as the (government of Roosevelt when he suc-I suc-I . r ceeded to the presidency after the ' essassination of President McKinley ," declared Henry Lane Wilson, former United States ambassador to Mexico, 1 -In an address on the Mexican situa tion delivered at a banquet tendered him here last night "President Wilson could recognize I (iHucrta and still save his face, as he has been trying to do ever since Mr ' Wilson continued ' If President Wilson Wil-son does not get behind the Huerta government, chaos is going to come, and we will have to go down and take care of the country We would have to supervise the election and then the I new president would be labelled the; gringo' president. As 6oon as our so' tilers had left the country the Mexicans Mexi-cans would get out their knives and we should have to go back again That, would mean controlling the count r and all the countries to the Panama canal Intervention would be all right jf we stayed therp all the time but would he bad Tor our morals and pot ketbooks." In discussing the condition of the lower classes in Mexico. Mr. Wilson said that 50 per cent were outcasts and pariahs and were Illiterate and that therein lay the root of all revo luiions. Under those conditions, he continued, it can eamly be under stood what difficulties my dlstngulfh ed namesake and Mr Bryan would have In establishing an altruistic re publif and how the problem kept Mr. Bryan from some of his lecture engagements en-gagements "In Mexico 75,000 Americans own more than all the Mexicans. For the most part this was acquired honestly, but in spite of this, an effort was made to deprive them of their property. prop-erty. Mr Bryan holds that property abroad has no rights 1 do not agree You might an well take away life as take away property " Murderers Not Punished. Discussing the Madero regime. Mr Wilson said that $4 Americans had been killed in Mexico and not ond murderer had been punished and that six months prior to the overthrow of Madero the entire country wanted it, yet "the death of the two Maderos seems to have agitated the United States government more than the mur der of the Americans." Regarding the part he took m bringing bring-ing about the making of Huerta pro visional president, Mr Wilson said that the Huerta and Diaz factions were iu the capital readv to renew tho bombardment and that while I was not so instructed. 1 took Immediate action to prevent it The represen talives of the two factJons were at the embassy seven hours and finally agreed to mak? Huerta provisional prtsident. leaving Diaz at liberty to pursue his candidacy o act ol mine rendered such valuable services to Americans and foreigners in my entire trareer and yet the administration administra-tion at Washington called my act an intrusion into the policies of the country The officials at home have 1 queer conceptions of the difficult lev. ' oi their diplomatic representatives, I |