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Show The Mexican Situation There are many embarrassing situations situa-tions in Mexico and unless someLhing is i ! done there is very apt to be war. It j was heralded iurui that a grand specta-: specta-: cular battle would be held at Juare.; j tiie famous cli.y of buhlignts, horse racjs lotteries and other uisaipatiuiu just across the boruer from 11,1 i'ao, and j there is no doubt that there would have been a large attendance, as the insur- rectos had promisi el to eat up the federals, fed-erals, but tne ining was po. trolled at tiie last moment, and a truce as ..i-nounced ..i-nounced to the great disappointment, of all assembled. loo truce was for Uic purpose of having a peace parley. General Gen-eral Aladero wi.l noi. lay do.vn nis arms uni.il D resigns, and will not re sign uiuil iVladji'o lays down his arms; j that u aoout tne situation. Meantime , the insurrectus have been maaliig it hot for tne government troops over a widening territory, and it is plain tout in case this is kept on tuere may be war. Three American boys, Converse, Ll.itt and Brown, wdio had been Held in prison in Juarez uy tne Mexican government for having taken part in the revolution, were released on orders I nun President Diaz. Tnis release iliusu'cifeis how sometimes the power of secret societies. . can be used to secure results Which would be impossible eeii to governments. Tne father of Liu Converse boy went to the City of Me.i'o and asked for his boy's freedom; he and Dei were members mem-bers of the same secret society, and as : soon as Diaz got the grip he gave his Consent. The news dispatches state : that tho favor was granted as a matter of course, the question of tiie boys' guilt not being brought up. President Diaz only asked that the boys should go home to their mothers. It appears that the C madiuns are not all smiling with joy over the reciprocity bill from what Washington papers say. If eairied into ell'ect it is believed, by the conservatives, that it will be disastrous dis-astrous to Canada and the British government. gov-ernment. The reciprocity matter is proving a vexing question on both sides of the border. Increasing antagonism to it develops in Canada, and the conservative conserva-tive party, which is theopposition party, is making" the most of it to harass the j Liberal government. Opposition leader i B u-den declared in parliament at Ottawa ; that he and his followers would resist ! reciprocity "to the bitter end," since J "if cai ried into ell'ect it would be dis-; astrotis not only to Canada but to the , British empire." While the Liberals j have an ample majority to carry the ' measure, the prospects are that this 1 can only be accomplished after a pro- I longed filibuster. Premier Laurier told j the parliament that he was ready to j ! jrive up his trip to the corunation in j ! June and that he would fight it out on I this line if it takes all summer. Figures just given out sho w that 275,- ! OOO immigrants went to Canada last 'year, and that 107,01)0 of these went from the United States, 10-1.000 from i the British Isles and (iO.OOO from the j , 1 continent ot turope. i I |