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Show Tin. milium hf.tiiiutiumsis. Tun revo'utlonsry allalr on our Mexican frontier Is liecomlng Interesting Interest-ing because of tuo aspects which It assumes. as-sumes. When Uaria rlrat began his I redatory'or orations with a handful of followt rt, the geuersl Idea that ire-sailed ire-sailed cnmernlng him was that ho was a rrank, uf lhoheulus desjs.rado. Itsnoii tienme apparent, however, that thire was a potent Influence behind him, otherwise Texans and Mexicans woult not have teen ao reidy to Dock lo his standard. This suspicion was umihsslKid when soldiers of the Moxloan army assassinated their ofll cere an I Joined their fortunes with his. When It was aunouuceJ thai IhsCath-ollcanere IhsCath-ollcanere enllitlug in his service la considerable numbers, still a little more light was 1st In upou Ihu sulject. Preal lent Dial having taken a strong stall I against Ihe luluence of the the Cathollo clergy In stale ntlalrs, nstually attracted toward him the nu III alhy of the lUinin church. It Is evident that the religious question has something lo do with the vitality dismayed dis-mayed ty Clarsi, If not w Ith tho urlglu of thomuVLmeul Itself Une fiaturo of the disturbance Is somewhat striking tho paucity of the etrorta mile ty this country to wipe out the revolution, If such it may lie called. Hero Is the position. An armed revi'ullonsry force Is quartered on American soil and operating against a iiclghhoringand friendly government, toward which they are guilty of treason. trea-son. Tho operations of these marauders maraud-ers go ou for mouths practically unchecked. un-checked. This question arises: Is the eantlnued existence cf the enoiulesof the Mexican government on our torder the result of Iniblllt) ou the part of this (ouutry to Ut an ex-tlngulshtr ex-tlngulshtr upou Garta and his forces, or of the want of u disposition lo do tills? The farmer Idea seems absurd uiion lis face. Hupposethe position wire reversed and a largo tody of traitors lo the Amerhan instrument were located on the other si la of JJie Mexican line, from which they niijo predatory In-cunlona In-cunlona Into llio United Htales, what would te the eiTvct? It Is tote presumed pre-sumed thst an anti-Mexican howl would go up all tho way from Texas to Maine. Demauds would bemadu that our neighboring rejutllo wipe out the treicheruus gang, otherwise this country woull si nil a force Into Mexlciu torrltory and accomplish the work herself. It dot Took fu this matter mat-ter us If It made a good deal of different differ-ent e as to whoso ox la gored. Tho lutvrest In this torder tuslness, which at first at pearid like a tempest tu Hteajiot, Is Increased ty tho latest lupvet given lo It In the dispatches. It Is asserted thai the Garza conspiracy has a great Uealuf money lahlnd It, an I that Its hcadquartcra la at Ketv Orleans which Is also Cathollo headquarters in the United Htates. In ordcrto be nearer Ihe scene of oenitlonsIt 1 assorted thatlhoren. trecf inanlpulationwill teforu loug be remuved te TA I'aso, Texas. Another alleged object vt tlio scheme not heretofore here-tofore putllcly named, Is In cut from Mixlcua largo slice of territory and organlxo aud estatlish thereon a new republic. Thu existence of suih n state of allalralu this country In reference to Mexico doea not at all comort with thu sj Irlt of the recent raii-Amerlcau Cougrths, vthoiio oljtct was stated to te to trlug the rog utiles of the American Ameri-can Continent Into a closer combination combina-tion of Interests than had hitherto existed. ex-isted. It now looks a If the Garza revolution would yet ossjmo yvty liuj ortant proportion. |