| Show t 4 1 MEXICO ALARMED i II l f It is evident that the Mexican government I 4 f govern-ment was alarmed by the noise created I in this country bythe Cutting affair Bight or wrong lawful or otherwise itt it-t concluded that it would be better to ret re-t ltia lease Cutting who was accordingly seat t > se-at licerty without serving the 1 Y term of imprisonment to which he t zS had been sentenced and also with I f t out paying the fine that had been i1 f f impose This was a backing down i r3 such as had not before been made by f I tne saucy republic and indicated a del de-l gree of fear on the part of the government 4 govern-ment which was not entertained by the a Mexican people livig along the bolder I Now comes a circular by the minister of foreign affairs directed to the governors gov-ernors of the several States which was evidently intended to avoid a repetition of the Cutting affair and to put a top to the outrages and indignities indigni-ties perpetrated on Americans who 4 may be caught on the other side of tRio t-Rio Grande The textof the circular I will be found in our telegraphic columns I col-umns It is simply a caution to the L border governments to be more careful in the future and keep within the lines 1 of the jaw in the matter of arresting s and punishing foreigners i So that after all some good may come i out of the Cutting business If Mexico Mex-ico has been sufficiently alarmed by the warlike utterances of America to treat Americans with a proper degree i of respect and consideration the blun denng that has been done over the fellow fel-low Cutting may turn out to be something 4 some-thing better than a political crim For years Mexico and Mexicans 1 Mexi-cans have done about as they i t ° pleased with America and 1 Americans A citizen of this country i has been as safe in the sister republic as d he would be in a den of thieves or among a band of highwaymen indeed I an American within fifty miles of the f J border has been in such danger that he I M 4 had to go armed to protect himself and his property against raiding greas rs It iP 13 to be hoped that all this will II now be changed and thereby the neces I i f city for the United States to carry the J boundary line farther south be 1 destroyed This country doesnt wan Mexico and will never take it unless as 1 y an act of self protection and if the t I Mexicans will behave themselves there < < e e will be no occasion for the seizure t d of life tnaii those which lend to lives of wrong doing and I criminality As a protection to society and in the interest of individuals the Territory should have a reform school where petty offender and boys and girls guilty of first offense could be litably punished for their misdeeds aid at the same time be pat in the way of abandoning their bad ways and of I leading proper lives 1 4 |
