The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-08-11
POSSIBLE WAR WITH MEXICO.

The Philadelphia Press thus sums
up the Mexican question, which has
been the topic Of the Nation for sew.
eral days past, and may possibly end
in scrimmage with our sister Repub-
lie:
editor Cutting has had his trial
and has been convicted. The Judge
has fifteen days in which to pronounce
sentence. If he takes them all Sec.
retary Bayard will have plenty of
time to negotiate with, and Governor
Ireland to illuminate against, the Gov.
ernment of Mexico.
at has been extremely difficult to
form any final opinion on this Cutting
affair, owing to the lack of reliable
presentation of the facts. The cores
pondence sent TO the House of Repre-
sentatives by the President and the
report of the evidence submitted at
the trial of Cutting OH Thursday help
us to proper understanding Of the
case. Mr.. Cutting is, or was, the edi-
tor of a paper in Paso del Norte, Mex.
leo. A Mexican by the name of Me.
dina proposed to start a rival paper,
whereupon Cutting announced in his
paper that the said Medina was a
fraud" and his proposed newspaper
was ga scheme to swindle advertisers" /"
Medina at once had Cutting arrested
for the libel, but on his signing a
reconciliation" which we understand
TO mean retractlon, he was dis.
charged.
at was stipulated that the retrac.
tion should be published by Cutting
four times, both in English and Span.
ism, in the paper which had contained
the libel. 1t was published in English
in very small type, but not in Spanish
at all. At or about the same time
Cutting published card in a paper
printed at Ell Paso, Tex, which is sit.
uated about one mile from Paso del
Norte and is connected with the latter
by bridge and line of street cars.
In this card, which was in both Eng.
lish and Spanish, Cutting reiterated
his original assertions that Medina
was fraud and dead-beat, and add
ed that "his taking advantage of the
Mexican law and forcing me to rec
onciliation was contemplate and cow.
ardly and in keeping with the odorous
reputation of said Medina. And
should said Eungido Medina desire
American satisfaction for this reitera,
tiOn l will be pleased TO grant him all
he may desire at any time in any
manner"
SIT was asserted under oath at the
trial, and not denied, that Cutting
caused to be circulated in Paso de-
Norte over ten copies of the Texa;
paper containing the libel. Had the
prosecution rested its case on this pub
iieation of the libel 10 Mexico instead
OF claiming its first printing in Texas
as the ofense their position would
have been impregnable. The United
States cannot suffer Mexico to try
American citizens for crimes commit
ted ia this country. If, however, al
American prints in an American pa
per in the Spanish language a gros
and defamatory libel on a citizen O
Mexico, and causes that libel TO b,
circulated in Mexico where it will d,
most harm, his crime is committed no
outside of Mexican Jurisdiction, bu
within its jurisdiction, and if eaugh
there all that this Government has
right to insist upon is that be shall b
treated humsnely, accorded a fai
trial, and, if convicted, shall be pun
ished only in proportion to his ofFense
and not in a cruel and unusual man
ner. The Jail in which Cutting ha
been confined is described as filthy
unVentilsled. loathsome place. w