Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-11-16
BORDER FILIBUSTERS.
A DARING SCHEME PLANNED By THE
RESTLESS SPIRITS
Which May Work Great DisaStsr-A Possibility Of
Collision Between the United States and
Great Britain ForeShadOwed-Th
Prediction Of an EmiSSary.

Prediction Of an EmiSSary.
DALLAS, TEX, NOvembr 15.-Two mel
have been here for five days organizing al
agency in the interest of she filbustering
expedition into Mexico. Yesterday they
started for st. Louis, leayinga man here o
extensive border experience to continue
their work. There are now enrolled II
Dallas twenty or thirty trusted men, ready
for raid the moment the summons Is re-
eeiyed, and the number will be swelled to
at least 100. 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 promoters and leaders expect to
prevent betrayal A press correspondent
had an interview with the emissary regard
ing the belittlement by the press of the
daring scheme on foot, and the part the
United States Government is liable to play,
and the apparent oversight on this point
by the filibusters. The emiSsary said:
NOT AFRAID OF INTERFERENCE.
That's the least of our fears. The
United States will have very little to do
with the movement. The Government
has no authority to do more than to check
it on its own territory. 1t can do nothing
whatever with the filibusters after they
are once in Mexico, and we shall take
mighty good care not to let the United
States authorities know OfOur 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 lead
erS ready to meet us. We are not going
into an annexation 10 the United
Scheme. The object is to estab-
liSh Il new Republic, the Rio Grande So
cialistic Confederation, to be composed of
the Northwest Mexican States Of Chihua-
hua. Durango and SOnOrO, with the capi-
tai, AS at present intended, at Chihauhau
CITY, as it has railroad communication
with the outside world, and is the largest,
richest and most important town III that
section. We don't want the Northeastern
States, Tamaullpas, Nuevo Leon and Goa
huila-nOr the great sand desert and
worthless peninsula, Lower California
We propose cOnfning our work to the
most desirable field, and not have an un-
wieldy area Of territory to work over.
We could not have the least prospect of
success should we attempt to reolutiOnize
all of North Mexico ut once.
ENGLAND MAY STEP IN.
When the time for action comes, if the
United States takes any hand i'll the affair,
we count upon that action being favorable
to the new Republic, instead Of against
it, for the reason that when the Mexican
Federal Government finds itself con-
fronted with the extensive revolution that
is certainly impending, and which it will
not be able to suppress, her heaviest cred
itor, England, who IS interested tinan-
cially to the extent of nearly 500,
900, 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 and the eStab-
lishment of some kind of foreign pro-
tectorate or provisional government over
Mexico. Then the United States will he
forced to put in active practice the long
asserted and maintained policy of resisting
foreign (which means European) interfer'
ence with the affairs of any of the Repub'
lies on the American continent. When
the time for outside interference comes the
G...,1,aN,, Nnnfnlarn finr Nt-i1l
have attained such powerful and respect
able proportions that the United States
will recognizeits belligerent rights, and the
new Republic will not be long in solving
its own destiny. The lower class of MeXi'
cans, known rs poems, will be with Us
from the outset, rs We propose elevatlng
their condition from one Of Ignorance anC
virtual Servitude to one Of liberty, propertS
owners, and advancement i'll education
One of our strongest ideas is to have 1
thorough system of public schools and MAKE
education in the English language com
pulsOry.
\ REVIVAL OF AARON BURR's SCHEME
The idea of establishing new Repub
| lie beyond the Rio Grande Is not new
one. 1t is only a revival of the tOndes
hopes and ambitions of Aaron Burr, witt
the lines simply extended further to tht
south. 1t was Sam HOustOn's original in
tention whsR he came to Texas to Great,
a great Republic that should extend IA
beyond the present limits of the State
He never dreamed of stopping at the Rio
Grande, and died strong i'll the belief tha
annexation to the United States alone pre-
vented him from realizing in his litetim,
| 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
rs the Monroe doctrine, which was pur,
aud simple, to republicapize in fact as wei
as theory, and to anglicise, SO far as Ian
guage is concerned, all the people south o
us, and so far as the interference idea re
| ferred to me is concerned, he planted him
self squarely on it in his first message t
Congress in stating that foreign interven
| ton in the affairs Of American Republic
should never be tolerated"
The emiSsary is graduate fan Easter
/ college, and has lived in Texas nearly two
wears. He is a personal friend of Henri
| George, for whom he has the strongest ad
miration and affection, and who's
doctrines he unequivocally endorses. II
and his associates will remain in st. LCGi
q week or so and then go to New York ant
other Eastern cities.