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Show IN THE MEXICAN CAPITAL. We are giad the goTwrnment of the I'm ted. State has rushed her ships, with marines and soldiers, to the nearest port to the capital of Mexico, hut we fear it will ha too 1st, because while at this writing no one can predict what the next twentyJonr hours will brin, it is certain thst Madero and Diss entered into yesterday's fight with the perfect consciousness that if one party won, the other would be destroyed. Diaz, under sentence of death, was rescued from prison. He knew when the prison doors opened upon him that he must make good or lose his life. Madero knew the moment he heard that Diaz was free that one or the other of them was bound to be killed within the next two or three days. And that was the situation yesterday, and the fight was going on. We hope our soldiers will have no accident in reaching Vera Cruz, and that if the conteat is still being waged, that they will lose no time in taking the train for the City of Mexico. At the ninn tunc, that will h a matter which will All thousand with apnrehen-K.on. apnrehen-K.on. hecaune while they will go, not to join the iitaiirgenta and not to sustain the regular government, govern-ment, hut to try to protect Americana, it will be the easiest thing in the world for a claim to be brought on which will make it neceMUiry for our government to put forth its strength and restore order in Mexico, which would mean some furious fighting and all the uncertainties which must attend at-tend upon trying to control some millions of grownup children, who, through the wars that have been going on in their country for nearly three years now, have becomo accustomed to the Held and familiar with all war horrors. It is a nasty business. It is a pity that the brigands in that country cannot be swept out into the sea and the fair land given ita much needed rest. |