Office of the Historian

File No. 812.00/2959.

[Untitled]

American Embassy,
Mexico, February 28, 1912—10 p.m.

Mr. Calero asks me to inquire whether the open telegraphic letter of Emilio Vásquez Gómez to President Madero,1 sent him San Antonio, and published in the Associated Press here and in the United States, would not constitute sufficient grounds to justify the Government of the United States in taking immediate action against him.

I am also requested to ask our Government to exercise full rigor with reference to the importation of arms and ammunition at Ciudad Juárez.

Wilson.

  1. [From the New York Times of February 25, 1912.]

    When you became President only part of the State of Morelos was in rebellion. To-day, on account of the action of the Government, this rebellion has spontaneously extended to the greater part of the country and will continue to extend. This is true.

    In the conscience of citizens, foreigners, and yourself and for reasons we will not discuss, this condition makes the return of peace impossible. The result, if you continue resisting the numerous revolutionary movements by military force, will not be in pursuit of a peace already impossible; and your resistance will oblige all Mexicans to continue killing each other without other result, for you, than to assume the grave responsibility of causing the shedding of more Mexican blood, to prolong and make more intense the state of disorder, and each day to make more distant the return of peace, which all desire so urgently. In this respect your responsibility to the country, the world, and history is immense.

    To obviate such great evils and the perils which such things can only engender, I believe it to be my patriotic duty to appeal to your patriotism, inviting you, as I have, in the name of the country to return to the revolution the power which it gave to you, and which return of power I ask to-day, according to the “plan of Tacubaya,” in the name of and to comply with the “plan of San Luis Potosí.” In this way there would be no further killing of our brothers, these armed revolutionary movements would cease at once, and peace would descend on the country, with tranquillity and confidence for all interests, and for all consciences, which it is urgent to obtain and assure.

    Will your patriotism give the country this great blessing? Upon you it exclusively depends.

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