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Show H REBEL'S CONFIDENTIAL AGENT H Hopes for an Early Termination of H the Insurrection. H WASHLNQTONpril 2. Pointing H out that the message of President M Dku to the Mexican congroaa en- B dorses the demands of the Mexican H revolution IeIs, Dr. Vasquez Gomez,. B head of the confidential agency of tho M insurgents here, tonight ' Issued a M statement suggesting two aolutlons of H the trouble in Mexico. M The government of President Diaz, H he declares, "by throwing aside ltd H prido and furnishing proof of its pa- H trlotlam," may treat openly with the H revolutionists, putting an end to tho B eoafltct and arranging "tho best man- H ner of guaranteeing the reforms and fl demands of the revolutionists," or the B "war may continue to Its final triumph, H -which Mr. Gomel, belleveB is not far H rflstant. B Dr. Gomez paid that, if the revolu- J tlonlsts rere obliged to pursue the H latter course he hoped that "in tho Hl interest of justice and humanity," M the United States would recognize the HH belligerency of tho insurrection, M "I say in the Interest of Justice and H humanity," said Dr. Gomez, "because M up to the present time, inasmuch as M the eovernment of General Diaz has H insisted on treating the resolution- M Ists as bandits, they have not been H able properly to organize a medical H service to attend to the -wounded and M the sick, and the burial of the dead. M At present if a member of the In- M surgents medical service Is taken m prisoner by Diaz troops, ho Is shot H Immediately." M In his analysis of the message of H President Diaz, Dr. Gomez sala be M found much encouragement to the H cause of tho revolutionists. Hl His statement in part follows: H "General Diaz's message to con- H greas is very interesting because at H the bottom it admits that the revolu- H tlon is a just ono, and has for its ob- H ject the bettering of political and so- H clal conditions in Mexico. For this H reason I am ever more firmly con- H vlnced that the l evolutionary party H shortly will triumph. The mcesago M admits that the country must not be H governed Indefinitely by the same H group of men, and as General Diaz H has been in power for 34 years, the H revolutionists will stand for him no H "The message confesses that the H principles of 'no re election' of public m officers by popular vote merits its H 'heartiest support.' This is to say, H that the fulfillment of tho slogan, 'no H re-election,' adopted by tho rovolution- M ary party is a national necessity. H "Next, General Diaz say3 that In or- H der to avoid long tenure In office of H certain public officers, It Is Indispen- H sable to revise the electoral laws so H as to ensure the eloctoral activity of H all citizens capable of votng. H "Therefore, the principle of 'offec- H tivo suffrage' advanced by the revo- 1 lutionists is logical because it has for Hl Its object the betterment of the po- H lltical Hiatus of the Mexican people. H "Finally. General Diaz admits that H the administration of Just is not good. M nor is the responsibility of public of- j fleers effective and for the purpose 1 of remedying this state of affairs, he Hl proposed to initiate an investigation H of these conditions. This means that H the revolutionists are right, Inasmuch H as the cause of tho revolution has 1 been due to a hunger and thirst for H Justice. Hl "When public opinion first felt tho 1 necessltv for those reforms etory 1 peaceable mcana that could be found Hl i "were emploj'cd by the peoplo In their H efforts to obtain them; but tho gov- H ernment of General Diaz treated all H such efforts with disdain, and whon B recourse was Tiad to the press in sup HH port of these endeavors, the govern- HHJ ment employed Its power in suspend- H lng tho nowspapers, closing their H plants and Imprisoning all thoso con- H cerned in the exposures H "Then came the revolution as tho 1 final recourse, to which all oppressed H people have to resort; and, in spito M of tho difficulties encountered in the M beginning, it exists today throughout m the entire country; an actual national H Insurrection. H "General Diaz makes two Important H confessions: First, that those re- H forms are supported By the thinking 1 men throughout the country and, sec- M ond, more important still, that the j government, despite its efforts, has H not been ablo to suppress tho revolu- H tion. In conclusion: H "The demands of tho revolutionists m arc just, they are supported by pub- H lie opinion in Mexico, and General H Diaz has endorsed them. H "Now, then, who should put these j reforms into effect9 Should It bo the H present regime, which has been op- j posod to them for more than 30 years? H Would thoy be carried out in good H faith, considering that tho Diai gor- m ernmont has delayed until the pco- H pie has arisen in arms? M "Thre Ib no room for doubt but H that the revolutionary party alone is j entirely cognizant of the necessities H of the peoplo, and is the party which H can and should carry out these re- 1 forms. Othorwlso, It would be equiv- H Blent to volntarily delivering into the M hands of he enemy all the benefits , of tho triumph and reducing tho conn-try conn-try to a worso condition than formerly." for-merly." Dr. Gomez admitted tonight that the peace proposals which ho had discussed dis-cussed with Senor IJmantour, minister minis-ter of finance, in New York, recently, had not reached Francisco I. Madcro, the rebel chief, and that, to his knowledge, knowl-edge, Madero was ignorant of tho peace talk current within the last week. i it. d i |