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Show TROOPS TO STAY ON BORDER. Guardsmen Will Not be Sent Back Home at Present. Washington. The national guard will be retained on the Mexican bor der until it can be withdrawn with-3ut with-3ut again endangering American lives and property. Secretary Baker so declared the administration's ad-ministration's policy on Monday in answering a score of letters from many part sof the country complaining complain-ing that the state troops were being held in service after the emergency Tor which they were called out apparently appar-ently has passed. la general, the complainants, whose names were withheld, alleged that border service was entailing loss financially on militiamen and hardship on their families. The secretary re plied to all those seeming to merit attention. By its presence on the border, he wrote to one, the guard is "winning bloodless victories daily." He declared that Americans resident along the international line were en toying a peace and security they jould not continue to have withou the military forces to protect them. |