| Show ii Mexican Situation Tb The Attitude of the tho United j States t IS 7 t CON TO 10 ATTITUDE of f He Mexican ican DUB by hY State Sta e r Department Depart Depart- c ment Unsatisfactory DISSENSION f H HAS S BE BEEN N CAUSED CAUSED J t Contended That Duties I Are S Simply to A vo t cate Justice lIY r y ERIa J. J HASKIN it hand Handling n g of tho tho difficulties i i rowing out t of tho tl I revolution in Hex ex J American m state s st ato department hasie has hat ie tea criticised r by almost every inter inter- affected Tho people who have hav wo to Mexico from born rom the Unit United State pt that at b attitude of tho gov- gov t at it t w Washington sh is not r i i. i enough t to pr protect e t thorn in th then their ir under ehU int international I law Tho Tio Op who 1 r ej de on the American side aide ideL L the Mexican l border order contend c nt nd that ley tia have e J a rih right to demand l rot c cz sa z n from the jn fl flying missiles of ot t b bat bat- t. t from too tho Mexican side and to to toi in the tho United States shall com corn l b. b warring waring factions in Mexico tobt to tobt bt i battles battIes on grounds and t to m guns in directions dire that will lk l an and maim maim pe people le a and d cI damage mago magoon kd on the he American an side Th They y that It a zone of neutrality ought I if t and nd mai maintained tl ned lY by the fron fran merican an army ay w 4 Eit State t i Department p ent S people pepI lisa also so criticise the he state a e ement its ita attitude toward ment ent Jor who have o been the vi tini of r i ind d b li lla or the in erna erna- j jI I d r Une lh 1 cr bat bt r 1 tl d t J ote tio from if f fire firof r of of tJi tho Mexicans nu t rt l' l are are ri it is tho the duty of f ft t department nt to r right ht their thou j for them and nd to do it promptly effi efficiently And Anti this they assert t sot not been done dono It is their conten- conten 1 e 1 that thit our ouk government government- has has' failed td do ita its aut duty when it h has not prote pro pro- te them from such injury a mid and d dit it ther there is is' n neither ither reason nor jus- jus jusin juse fI e in iD the attitude of tho the state depart depart- nt HIt l in A refusing to press their claims Meanwhile MeOw the state department an ao eri that it has hu been trying to fol fol- lines that would be best t pro pro- to interests o of all concerned It ink inti out that the Mexican govern govern- nt t has bas created a channel through ieh Jieh these claims may be brought up and settled This ThiB is in the thespa spa apo of ot consular consul r investigations For or orI I Lance nee th the tho Mexican consul at El lEI Paso empowered to investigate the claims owin wing out of ot the damage inflicted EI I Paso by tho guns of the We con con- 1 iding iDa forces force His recommendations recommendation II DO tak taken n as a guide JUide for payment the Mexican government vo te Justice The department contends that it was wasi i tor it to refuse to recognize the of satisfaction provided 4 by byi Mexican i government but simply to toi i i that justice is done So Ion long as as 3 i method chosen by tho the Mexicans Irks it contended there was no rca rca- i i for other methods to be invoked t t that it would have baTe invoked such sucher er meth methods da as BS' BS might ht have bc been n emry had the plan ado adopted tod by the theca ca s failed to afford adequate r re- re t. t Thu contention has haa been beca answered the th senators front from the states boring barring bor bar ring ing on the frontier with the state state- at that it is f to be expected lt the Mexican consuls having i ind in inid id od the tho bad bud financial situation itu tion of ofir ir country and objecting to its asling as- as ling aing responsibility for damages in m- ete eted by br rebel troops will be over over- ral eral with tho the American citizens liv hv- l on this side of tho Rio Grande Grandc eater lator tor Fall for instance con concedes ede st It i it It'll it the duty of those Americans 0 in Mexico and have sustained ones there to exhaust th their reme reme- oI 4 1 that country countr appealing to But it is contended that It i 1 people injured on the Americans American l s have an entirely different status long U as as they have havo stayed at homo honio 4 1 have ave there followed tho the pursuits Mod citizens it is for the go govern rAt tat It Washington n to protect them i Dot ot for them to protect themselves see c their contention that the state has erred rr 1 finally has hag accepted their if o ot of it It and has provided pro that the tho nt of dama damages cs shall be made mado cn army officers officer and that eL j TOT government will une un un- sete eto e to see that restitution is mado made to be e explained that the tho state derest dent de de- de rest nt t feels full that the Mexican an sita sit sit- ilI i. i a dangerous dan one and that it 70 b be handled bandied with tho the utmost t fw we ar are re to avert complications t. t prove of the tho utmost so BO- BO 1 MS it 1 occupies much the W President Lt-President McKinley occupied the Spanish American war seek seek- 1 avert Vert any i incident that might rt public opinion at nome Home or stir I Ie in Mexico Eric t e. e in incidents have h happened Set to o time tune that might under i provoke pro international at nt Washington ton I r Ame in Mexico o to imor im- im I or lor self eit defense These wr were tr JJ th them by tho revolutionists I Declaration Uon that since Ince the f pOrt t t bas as refused to allow them munitions of from across neros t i on on page pago 2 t t 4 1 CRITICISM CONSEQUENT TO ATTITUDE Continued fr from m page 1 I. the tho Rio Grande that is their only chance to got get et them They assert that the th Madero Madero Ma Ma- M. M dero revolutionists were permitted to got get all al tho arms ars and ammunition they needed but hut tha that Orozco people are aredo do flied nied the ri right b t that t was a granted the former revolutionists Likewise A Americans have been treated treated treat treat- ed so brutally in some some cases that there is probably around for f r the assertion that such treatment has ba been meted out for the tho purpose of forcin forcing tiou tion ton In one instance a prominent American colonists colonist's wife fell fel ill il ant and ad addie died die Her relatives in Now Mexico wore were notified and made the trip in an automobile At the international boundary line lne they were told by the Mexican consul consul that they they did not need needa a passport When they arrived at their destination the man whoso whose wife had hac died was torn from the death chamber and taken out and ban hanged ed by Mexican soldiers soldiers' for permitting these relatives to come to his bis house bouse without a pass port por Perhaps the people hardest hit bit by bythe bythe the revolution have been the Mormons President Diaz Daz w was was s always anxious anxious to get as many farmers into Mexico as possible possible farmers farmers who would break brek up bi big haciendas into small smal farms and till til ti them after the th American way Dozens Dozen of Mormon settlements were established in many 8 sections of Mexico Traveling along the Vera Cruz and Isthmus railway rail railway rai- rai way one crosses crosses broad prairies It with 1 hero here and there settlements of Mormon Moron farmers men farmers men who h have bavo ave transformed idle soil soi into wealth producing planta planta- tons Tho The same sam has ba boon been true tue t ue fn in i northern northern north north- em ern Mexico These people went down there taking their all an with them and establishing farming districts district and rural rura towns which remind one nf nl f prosperous sections in Iowa or Illinois None of the tho thin things ono one sees in those states eTO wanting to tell tel the tho story of thrift energy energy en eu ergy er and prosperity in some of Df tho towns were three story school buildings build lags ings built buit according to the best standard stand stan ard in in tho United States Their schools had bad as a extensive courses courses of study and andas anda a as 85 good teachers as those in this country coun tr try Sorrow Sw and ad Calamity u Bu where prosperity and happiness dwelt yesterday today there is sorrow and calamity What the tho armies of tho the north calamity and south di did to Virginia inia as 88 the fortunes of war swayed back and abd I forth during durin tho the sixties that have tho armies of the government and of tho the revolutionists been doing to the Mor Mor- Mormon mon settlements in northern Mexico That is wh why they hey have abandoned their ill all al and are aTe flocking to tho the United States mayhap never ne to return The Tho Americans in Mexico cannot complain that the they have base not boon dealt with wih generously in the matter of being bein afforded an opportunity to get t O out of the tho country The Tho dispatching of arm army transports to bring them off of when President nt Taft first firt issued his bis admonition to to all al Americans to get out the prompt voting by congress of and the use o ot army tents for the tho protection of tho the refugees coming acro across tho the border and pa jag ing of the transportation charges cs to any ny part of oC the United States for lor ever every returning refuges refugee cA unable to pa pay them himself tell ten tho the stor story of the disposition dis ais position of the government o to do what it can Those who ou ought bt to be bet best acquainted ac with the situation in in t Mexico profess to see lee no early hOp hope of peace They assert that the tho peon pen likes his hia hll job ob obas as a soldier and is willing to keep up tho the fighting indefinitely so 80 long as ne Jt it affords him hun opportunity to t redress What bat he now considers tho wron wrongs that that have bava been heaped upon him m in in tho the past The longer hostilities continue the he moro more irritating are arc tho the interns ional questions expected to become and the calmer the counsel required to prevent the most serious international difficulties Tomorrow THE T MEXICAN SITUATION ni The Te The Mining Industry |
