Show MISCHIEVOUS HYSTERIA Ii H government go officials and newspaper news news- I paper correspondents are arc daily adding to toO the already nb-endy ample perplexities in th tho Mexican situation A case in point is that of the Ilie ono one hundred American lc refugees who journeyed from Torreon to Saltillo Mexico end and who were ere erroneously reported to have been leen c captured by rebels or b by ly bandits The only tangible truth upon which the report could coul depend was the fact that the they were due at the thc latter pla place upon a certain date ate and failed to arrive e a circumstance circumstance circum circum- stance not unknown in iii this country of superb transportation transportation trans trans- facilities It is announced however that the they h have e now arrived in safety The Mexican situation is sufficiently acute without without with with- II out addin adding to its provocative e features b by the encouragement III of lof h hysterics It is to the tho interest of federal an and rebel to guard American refugees with extreme I care Both countries are in n a condition of extreme nervousness s the thc explosion e of an automobile tire tiro in any border town is pregnant with tremendous possibilities poggi- poggi and the accidental discharge of a pistol sends non combatants scurrying to cyclone cellars and blood bloodthirsty thirsty fighting men to cleaning their belligerent ent cut hardware The maltreatment of defenseless refugees refugees refugees refu refu- gees mi might ht easily c cast st a n mat match h into the powder magazine magazine mag meg azine that would precipitate a costly war and wipe ipe the Mexican republic from the face of the earth it fails to adorn Idom A A. touch of good sense and md obedience to lo the tIle Biblical Biblical Biblical cal admonition to prove all aU things and hold fast to that which is good are arc badly needed The constant stream of Americans across the thc border should presuppose presuppose pre pre- pre pre- suppose just such instances I at arose with the tho refugees in question Traveling on n foot or 01 in wagons from the border r. r bad stretch of characteristic Itic Mexican roads will cause delay If they that organize search parties and tell the tho reporters about it ft will merely as assume assume assume as- as sume that the missing ones are safe but delayed instead instead in instead in- in stead of conjuring cc visions of their mangled bodies much unnecessary strain will be avoided and the cause of humanity better hetter served I |