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Show oo THERE SHOULD BE ARMED INTERVENTION. Thf latest act of barbarism m Mexico Mex-ico Is that by Huerta. resulting In the members of the Chamber of Deputies beinn thrown Into prison, following the protest of the Deputies against the mysterious disappearance of Sen ator Dominguez. who had incurred the enmity of the Mexican dictator The Mexican people within the boundaries dominated by Huerta are without olce and are helplessly held i in restraint by the iron hand of the military Our opinion Is that, given ri - action, the whole of .Mexico I would rise in opposition to the brutal murderer who calls himself president J This coup of Huerta means the destruction de-struction of the last semblance of i republican form ol government In Mexico, and the indications are anar-Ohj anar-Ohj is to follow. The Standard predicted that Huerta would make the legislators his crea tures or crush them, At the first sign oi Independent thought In the legislative body, the dictator proceed I rd to do with the jtenatorw and depu j tics as he did with Madero throw, them into prison. How many of the incarcerated men will ever escape from the dungeons of this monster depends on the whims of their keepers keep-ers the defiant will be shot down and their deaths charged to suicide. The civilized countries of the world, with the L'nlted States taking the in i tiative, would be Justified, in the name of humanity, and as a measure of protection to foreigners, it they pro reeded by armed Intervention to put an end to the Huerta regime The military dictator has so completely com-pletely unmasked himself that no one can bo further deceived as to his ul tlmate aim to convert the republic of Mexico Into a great military camp, over which he is to rule by the right nf might Whatever pretense at holding an election may be made will be farcical. farci-cal. Mexico today must be stricken from the list of republics That country now- has a czar. |