Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 132, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1915 — MEXICAN LEADERS ARE GIVEN WARNING [ARTICLE]

MEXICAN LEADERS ARE GIVEN WARNING

Must Restore Order and Provide For Feeding Populace or U. S. Will Take a Hand.

Watchful waiting has come to an end. The patience of President Wilson and the American people with Mexican leaders has ceased to be a virtue and the starving conditions now prevailing in the republic below the Rio Grande has caused President Wilson to issue a warning that leaves, no doubt of the intention to intervene if 1 Carranza, Villh, Zapata and Garza, the leaders to whom . the note was •tent, fail to restore order and permit the resumption Of business.

The president says: “A central authority is no sooner set up in Mexico City than it is undermined and its authority denied by those who were expected to support it” In concluding-the nate he says: “It is time, therefore, that the > government should frankly state its policy, which, in these extraordinary circumstances, it becomes its duty to adopt It must presently do what it has hitherto not felt at liberty to do, lend its active moral support to some man or group of men, if such can be found, who can rally the suffering people of Mexico in an effort to ignore the warring factions.” Just what means will be adopted is not stated, but the note says that failure to do as suggested will cause this government to decide what means shall be employed in order to help Mexico save herself and serve her people.