Salt Lake Tribune | 1913-10-07 | Page 6 | The Mexican Secession

THE MEXICAN SECESSION. It appears from the dispatches that there has been an actual secession of the northern States of Mexico, with tho view to forming a new republic. repub-lic. It appears, further, that a President Presi-dent has been sot up iu the person of Governor Carranza of Coahuila, who has beeen especially active in the recent re-cent revolt against Provisional President Presi-dent Ifucrta. Tho fact as reported that this new government has already secured a loan of $500,000 is significant signifi-cant of a financial support that may make tho secession movement formidable. formid-able. It will be remembered that some time ago the State of Sonora passed an act of secession, but Sonora has not been able either to negotiate money ou account ac-count of its secession, nor have tho Sonora troops been able to hold their own against tho federal attacks. It is not easy to sec how Sonora alone could maintain itself as an independent government. gov-ernment. It -is certain that the present pres-ent soccssion which nominally embraces em-braces Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, Sonora, and Zacatccas is altogether' moro formidable than the secession of nn3r one State could possibly be. Tt is also true that homogeneity among all those named States is far greater than exists as between these States aud the contral Mexican government, or the States 'further south. So far as known thero has been, no encouragement by our administration of this secession movement. There appears ap-pears no disposition on the part of President Wilson to do anything further by way of interference in Mexican affairs until after tho election, elec-tion, -which is to bo held on Sunday, October 20th. The veiled threat which has been carried through, all of his negotiations ne-gotiations and statements to Congress, that if tho election so held is not satisfactory to him he will undertake some othor form of intorforonco or intervention in-tervention which will bring Moxican affairs within tho views which dominate domi-nate him, is-an underlying possibility of trouble. The uncertainty of these viows, and o"f what President TVilson may dolermine, is ono of the ovil factors fac-tors that have been working, and that continues to work, tremendously against liuorta. This reported soccssion is undoubtedly undoubted-ly made on the presumption that it will be supported in some degreo iu the United States. So far as we can see, however, thero is no basis for such relin-nco so far as President "Wilson "Wil-son is concerned. "Wo aro not in tho nation-raising business at present, nor is President Wilson likoly to put himself him-self in a like attitudo to that which President Boosovolt put himself in in regard to tho secession of Panama from tlfc Colombian liopublic-, whereeby- ho was able- to say-.some years later with respect to Panama, "I took it." The truth is, that Mexican affairs .just now aro in such a chaotic and uncertain uncer-tain state that no ono can possibly forecast what the noxfc move will be.