Americans in Mexico
FROM time to time the administration has asked Congress for funds to assist Americans in leaving Mexico. Thousands have been brought out and sent to their homes in this country. Many still remain, either in any choice or from necessity. Some of them have flatly refused to abandon their property in that unfortunate country, even in the face of perils threatening their lives. They clamor wildly for the protection of their government and bitterly condemn the President because he does not throw an army into every Mexican province to safeguard their private interests.
There is another class of Americans in Mexico, however, whose abstract right to remain is just as sound, but who are eager to get away until order has been restored and life and property are again secure. There are the people whom our government has been most anxious to aid. We have sent warships into every port to offer them the means of escape. We have provided them with money without thought of return. Every now Secretary Lansing is asking Congress for an additional sum of $300,000 for their benefit.
Those of our people who want to leave Mexico should be given all possible assistance, but those who persist in remaining in spite of repeated warnings must take the consequences. 