The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-07-21
The Mexican Question.

1t is satisfactory to be assured by our
Washington correspondent that the Admin
istration is not Indifferent to the gross in
decency Of the attack made upon the honor
of this country by General Diaz in his Of
fetal commentary upon the orders issued
to General Ord. The hopes which the
Administration seems to entertain of an
effeetual cooperation by the Mexican COM
manders on the Rio Grande with our own
in the repression of lawlessness and the
restoration of peace and order along our
frontiers are scarcely warranted either by
past experience or by anything of substan-
stantial character IN the present organize
ton of authority in Mexico. But it is pro-
per to entertain them, and the country will
be glad to see them borne out by the pro-
gress of events There would be more
likelihood Of this if the authority of General
Diaz were able to make itself felt in the
particular regions which are now, as for
many years past they have been, the head
quarters of the evils with which we have
at last been compelled by the progress of
our Southwestern populations to DEAL
| Unfortunately the Central Government of
Mexico has never been able to exert any
effectual control whatever over the greater
|
belt of territory stretching from chihuahua
into Coahuila, and more than equal in ex-
tent to the whole commonwealth of Maine,
which has never been entered by so much
as a detachment irregular Mexican troops
for the last thirty years, and is never likely
to be, unless it is first cleared aud made
accessible to them by such dashing Amer
lean soldiers as Lieutenant Bulls. Gov
ernor Charles, of Coahuila, who grants
passes through the custom houses of the
frontier to organized parties of Lipan Indi-
ans, remitting the Mexican duty Of 6 per
cent. on the gelding which they may bring
back from Texas, aud who recently caused
two unfortunate Mexicans to be shot tor
guiding Americans through the mountain
defiles, will be as much effected by any or
ders issuing from General DiaZ as he
would be by q frman from the Sultan
Doubtless General Ord understands al
this, aud doubtless he may be trusted moi
to allow himself to be put OF with fail
words whore effectual action is required.
7 Meanwhile the country will await viii
, serious attention the course to be taken By
, the Administration in vindication ofits owl
character aud of the character Of the Unit
ed States. Its orders issued to Genera
e Ord have provoked from General Diaz a
4 gross and deliberate an insult to tn
; American Government as could we'll b.
offered by the responsible agents of on
civilized state to those of another. Tn
7 Minister of the United States in Mexic
has formally communicated the languag
! used by the authority of General Diaz 4
our own Government after as formal!
T bringing it to the attention of General Dia
himself in an official memorandum, cop
t of which, received by us from Mexico, wa
T yesterday published In these columns. L
is not possible for this country, with du
: regard for its own honor. to hold any tuI
J, Their communication with the so-ealled gov
d eminent of General Diaz until this lar
a guage has been formally retracted and
J formal apology for using it made IN tn
u same public manner in the City of Mexico
= The question of the Rio Grande goes fC
= the moment to the rear. 10 regard
10 that question letter from our alert an
, active correspondent at San Antonit
l. which we publish to-day, makes the yer
At sensible and timely suggestion that th
d force under the orders of General Or
!? ought to be at once strengthened with
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