The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-05-07
The Mexican POns Asin0rum-How II
Should be Solved.

should ne Solved
The intelligence which from day to day
reaches us from the ill-fated land of the
Montezumas, in its contradictions, vagueness
and uncertainty, tells the whole story of Mexi-
can chaos in peculiarly left-handed way.
Cities besieged by contemplate forces, sieges
raised by scarcely more contemplate bodies Of
troops, immense provinces in revolt, detached
leaders ''pronouncing" and plundering to-day
and joining the loyalists tomorrow, treasons,
treacheries and unreliable adherences every
where form the staple Of news from over the
Rio Grande. Into our own borders, too, the
cow-thieving Mexicans carry their freebooting
system, numbering the inhabitants and keep
ing up q reign of terror along the Texan side
of the river, which, it seems, from our latest
advices, reaches to controlling the law courts
and intimidating United States juries.
From all that can be learned Of the forces of
the revolutionists they are not such as any
stable government would permit to exist for
week; but the power Of the Juarez govern
ment seems barely able to maintain head
against them. The Executive is said to be
out Of funds and heavily in debt
to its own employees. This being the
case, and there being no prospect Of
improvement, it seems scant mercy to humanity
that INDUCES the United States to permit this
chronic insecurity and consequent ire
sponsibility to continue. When outrages are
committed on our citizens and their property
the Mexican government, on being appealed
to- declares its inability to curb its unruly citi-
zens, who thereupon proceed with the work of
murder and pillage at their own sweet will
We haveposted small and insufficient body
of troops along the border, who are farce in
the way Of protection, since the Mexican
raiders, having Gifted" oil the cattle they de-
sire, cross over the narrow river and our
soldiers are not permitted to pursue them.
The project of an international railway is
talked of; but where, in face of present and
prospective insecurity, will capital be found
insane enough to invest therein? With
provincial governors ever ready to ''pro-
nounce,' and q large proportion of the
population always on the lookout for pro-
fitable robbery, the profession of stopping
stage coaches aud numbering the passengers or
holding them at high ransom would soon be
applied on large scale to mail, passenger and
freight trains. Yet it is preposterous to sup
pose that this race of moss troopers will be
allowed to stand as stumbling block in the
way Of civilization for all time to come. The
rich and beautiful country which they curse
with their presence must be opened up to
progress, the iron rails must be laid across it
and all its resources developed. To do this
stability must be gained, and if the Mexicans
are unable or unwilling we must do it for
them. We respect the republican form of
government which obtains there but repub-
lie should be guarantee of order, and not as
it stands now, the pretence under which
blighting anarchy regns. The duty Of the
United States in the premises clearly is to
extend protectorate over this fair and dis
ordered land, to develop its latent industrial
forces, pour in life-blood of energy and lift
up the country to the level of its destiny. We
should gain in every way from this, COM
mercially and nationally. The question of
annexation could be left to decide itself later
The throwing of a sufficient force into Mexico
to insure order there and prevent the disturb
ances in Texas might seem costly experiment
at first, but it would repay both countries in a
period astonishingly short Will President
Grant set about solving this question in the
only way possible to arrive at its solution?