Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 121, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1914 — SAYS MEXICAN POLICY IS ONE LONG BLUNDER [ARTICLE]

SAYS MEXICAN POLICY IS ONE LONG BLUNDER

Robert J. Kerr, Erstwhile Governor of Vera Crus, Smarts Under Rebuff and Criticises Theories.

Chicago, May 20—Robert J. Kerr, who for four days was civil governor of Vera Cruz, and who said he was rebuffed when he called at the White House to give his views on the Mexican situation, returned to his home here this afternoon.

“I have no criticism personally to make of the administration, but am merely one of those Informed on the subject who think the Wilson policy in Mexico has been one long blunder,” said Mr. Kerr. “I speak Spanish and I have been in Mexico on professional trips many times in the last fourteen years. The voice of the competent critics of our Mexican policy—Americans, South Americans and Mexicans—is entitled to expression. "I called at the White House because I thought I should first report the views I represent to the president. Secretary Tumulty told me that if I though I had information not already in the president’s possession, I was badly mistaken.” Kerr expressed the opinion that the administration is deluding itself in the belief that the solution of the agrarian problem .will solve the whole (Mexican difficulty, when, as a matter of fact, the agrarian pjoblem, though important, is only secondarily. ■ “The primary problem is racial and sociological,” he said.