Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-11-29
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 MORALES, Nov. 24, 1881.
 EDITOR CIrIzES:-A case has haar made mp here in the past few days which may merit the attention of the press and possibly of the government
 IL. D- Waters, a citizen of the United States arrived here last Saturday night on the Sonora railway, and being 4 stranger strayed onto the Mexican s,de ot the lire in attempting to reach the Cosmopolitan Hotel on the American side.
 A Mexican custom officer seized him. called him the male progeny of a canine female and knocked him senseIess with pistol.
 The affair was witnessed by several railroad employees and passengers-so there can be no doubt of the facts.
 The affidavit sets them forward in distinct and legal form.
 Now what Is this man to do? He came to the consulate and his complaint was put m proper form and forwarded to the consulate at Paso del NJrte- from there it must go to the Consul general at Matamoras, and possibly from there to the Minister m Mexico or the State Department at Washington and oy then tue Inaugural will be pending an1 then We shall have a new set of of ficers and clerks all around-red tape.
 It Is the hrst Case of the kind pre. senied at thIs place. but outraees on american citlZens have been prevalent along the line ever since the acquisition Of inc Territory, aud before
 Just before a Presidential election We hear great deal If blaiherskite speak ing about protection to American citi- zens. AtterTaTds nothing.
 The tune has been when fleet was sent to the Mediterranean and made the flag respected along the Barbary coast and Commodore Striugham leveled hls guns at an Austrian frigate in the harbor of Trieste for the protection of GermHn who had merely declared his intentions to become an American citi- Zen.
 Americans have been kicked and cuiied Tn every harbor of the world for the past twenty years without any pos sibillty Of redress from home.
 1 know personally a great number of American citizens Tn Chinese sea ports who are trading under British protec- ton.
 In Mexico it is common custom to seek British or German protection. The U. 5. Consul at GuaymGs Is per tecily helpless to enforce protection Tn hls district as he seldom has the honor ot visit even from Revenue Cutter. 1T all the troops Ill the Union were on the boundary line they could afford no assistance to the civil officers under the posse comitatus act" even within our boundaries-muchl less across them.
 The protection ot American citizens l m foreign countries will have to be l settled by thIs next administration in a | very definite and positive way if the | Democratic party expects to restore its | time hunored prestige, for the neglect of | this high duty-if not the highest duty | of government-has gone beyond | human endurance. Certain 1t Is in tbis | little neighborhood that if neglect con ! tinues the Americans will seek redress ] 0y force. An ounce of prevention Is l worth pound or cure. There are some rumblIngs of a | threatened disturbance at the Cananeas between Governor Pesqueirs's party and | the purchasers of property there. It is rumored that several people were | killed near there Saturday night, but 1 rumOrs over the Mexican line are not | worthy of publicity. The ''zOna fibre will be officially | opened on the 27th or at latest the lst l of December. The little town of NOgales Is improv- | iug on both sides of the line, but more 1 on the Mexican side where squat l terism" Is not allowed. c. D. F.