The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-11-16
TIRE MEXICAN FILIBUSTERS.
How II Is Proposed to Invade Mexico and Set
Upa socialistic Confederation.

DALLAS Tex, Nov. 1.-Two men have been
here for five days organizing an agency in thu
interest of a flibusterng expedition into
Mexico Yesterday morning they started for
st. Louis, leaving a man here of extensive
border experience to continue their work. There
are now enrolled in Dallas twenty or thirty
trusted men, ready for raid the moment the
summons is received and the number will be
sweled to at least one hundred. Five times
that number could be obtained, but the greatest
caution is observed in selecting men, and none
but the most trusted are accepted. In this
way the promoter and leaders expect to prevent
betrayal Your correspondent, Saturday
night had an interview with the emssary re-
gardng the belittlement by the press of the
daring scheme on feot and the part the United
States government is liable to play and the ap-
parent oversight or this point by the fill
busters. The emissary said: That's the least
of our fears. The United States will have very
little to do with the movement. The govern
ment has no authority to do more than to check
it on its own territory. 1t can do nothing
whatever with the flibusters after they are
snce in Mexico, and we shall take mighty
authorities know OF our movements, or
when or where we will make them. When we get
ready to cross the border we will find plenty of
natives with good leaders ready to meet us.
We are not going into an annexation to the
United States scheme. The object is to estab
lsh new republic the Rio Graude Socaistic
Confederation, to be composed of the northern
Mexican States of Chihuahua, Durango and
Sonora with the capital as at present intended
mt Chihuahua. City. as it has railroad commun-
icarion with the outside world, and is the larg
est. richest and most important town in that
section We don't want the northwestern States
-Tamaulipas, Nuevo Leon and Coahuila, nor
that great sand desert and worthless peninsula
Lower California. We propose confining our
work to the most desirable field, and not have
an unwieldy area of territory to work over We
could not have the least prospect of success
should we attempt to revolntionize all of north
Mexico at once When the time for action
comes. if the United States takes any hand in
the affair, we count upon that action being fa-
vorahle to the new republic, instead of aganstit
FOR the reason that when the Mexican federal
government finds itself confronted with
the extensive revolution that is certainly i'm
pending, and which it will not be able to sup
press, her heaviest creditor, England, who is in
terested financially to the extent of nearly $780,
OOO 600 in Mexican bonds, will step in to protect
that interest and in order to protect it will, no
doubt, assume to restore order by force of arms
protectorate or provisional government over Mexi-
co. Then the United States will be forced to put
in active practice the long-asserted aud main
tanned policy of resisting foreign (which means
Europeanl Interference with the affairs of any
of the republics on the American continent
When the time for outside interference comes
the Rio Grande Socialistic Confederation will
have attained such powerful and respectable
proportions that the United States will recog-
niEe It's belligereng rights, and the new
Will NO ba in sol itS doc
ainy. The lower class of Mexicans known as
poems, will be with us from the outset, as we
propose elevating their condition from one of
ignorance and virtual servitude 20 of lib
srty, property ownership and advancement in
education. One of our strongest ideas is to have
thorough system of public schools, and to make
education in the English language compulsory.
The idea of establishing new republic beyond
the Rio Grande is not a new one. 1t Is only
revival of the fondest hopes and ambitions of
Aaron Burr, with the lines simply extended
further 70 the south. 1t was Sam Houston's
original intention, when he came to Texas, to
create great republic that should extend far
beyond the present limits of the State. He
never dreamed or stopping at the Rio Grande,
and died strong in the belief that annexation to
the United States alone prevented him FROM re-
alizing in his lifetime the establishment
of his fondest hopes. ambitions and dreams The
new movement IS In strict harmony with the
views held by James Monroe. which gave to the
world the policy known as the Monroe doctrine.
which was, pure and simple, to republicanize, in
Fact we'll theory, and to anglicize. so far as
language is concerned all the people TO the south
Of US; and, as far as the interference idea re-
aerred TO by me is concerned, he planted himself
squarely upon it in his first message to Congress-
10 stating that foreign intervention in the affairs
Of American republics should never be toll
Grated
The emissary Is a graduate of an Eastern col
lege, and has lived in Texas nearly two years.
He q personal friend OF Henry George, for