Show THAT filibustering EXPLOIT 0 tax us scheme ot of a few adventurous mea to establish upon the soil of northwestern mexico a socialistic republic pub licin in consonance with the theories ot of heury henry george is full of treachery and danger as we kiewit at this distance treacherous because it proposes not to par purchase chase the lands from their owners nor to take them by the force of open warfare but to pounce upon them like the thief who enters a neighbors house intent upon prey when the neighbor is absent by stealth itis it is proposed to cross tibe the frontier by cunning to get a tooting foot 11 and by political entanglements entangle ments to eb an independent gove government in which the overawing over awing strength and prospective moral if not physical su support of the united states slates will mat make them secure here it is proposed to found the model gove government a republic in which socialism and unrestrained freedom will prevail apart from the knavish aspect of the cast case there are other drawbacks and hindrances all indicative of failure in the firsti place the plan to is visionary ary having no more stab stable ae foundation than maps and charts and the talk of the 1 daydreamers day dreamers who projected and ar are e agitating it and in the nex next tit it is so lull full of danger that it is more than likely a majority oh the filibustering af pf party krould falter as they the y advanced advance dand and abandon the enterprise altogether before crossing the rio eio del norte none it would we think only need a line or two of mexican troops with bristling bayonets awaiting them on the other shore to make so extensive a defection that there would not be enough of the would be invaders left to make a respectable skirmish but even the fear of such a 9 thing would be enough in post most instances doubtless as soon as the promised land came into f full all view the company as far as can be learned is composed of college graduates impecunious adventurers and habitual air castle builders scat scarcely eely a hardy experienced tense tenacious IOUs man in the group fine material for the cou con st ruction of an army redemption dem demp c tion this thial there might perchance er e ilance be a revolution take illace but at there is little doubt that it woula would be in the feelings of the carpe carpet t war giors who seek notoriety as far from the cannons mouth as possible the hostile invasion of mexico or even a part of it by any unauthorized force large or small is aai a matter to be talked about not attempted by sensible people and even these will talk of it in th the light of history not of prospective ever events leat it requires but little effort to remember how less than two decades ago an army of conquest large in numbers captained by the greatest chieftain chief tain of the most warlike power of europe aad led by a titled dignitary whose name was synonymous with courage e and high breeding breedin came to defeat and disaster af after ter fluctuating actuating fortunes in the same field tor for a short time of how the general deserted the eau cause se and the leader and those next to him in rank were captured and brutally and barbarously executed and the expected conquest tame a dismal and bloody defeat une one of these was bazaine baza 1 ue the other maximilian several years prior to this a man named walker with aspirations pi rations as visionary and unlawful as those of the advocates of the ideal government gathered a gang of adventurers around him and tried his warlike hand on nicaragua but he came to grief in short he was subsequently shot for his enterprise this kind of history associated with present hardships and aed dangers will not have a very inspiriting effect upon the raw recruits it will twill be nellif well if it has a very enervating effect before they go to the trouble and expense of leaving their homes |