The Imperial press., 1905-08-12

have to Oinform you that our Ambassador in the City of Mexico has informed the Department that on the 27th of the same month the Mexican Minister of Foreign Affairs informed him that he would order an immediate investigation of the matter.
 am Sir, your obedient servant, ALVEY A. ADEE, Acting Secretary. The outcome. of this affair will no doubt have a ssslutary effect on our neighbors across the line, and especially on the official portion of them. Many of them were no doubt new to the exercise of authority, and being so remote from the centers of government, readily concluded that they were the I.goverDment and their will was the law. It is when such conditions obtain. and the power of the executive officers is yielded in consonance with their whims instead of according to the law of the land that such outrages as have been perpetl ated on Robinson are committed.
 The government is responsible for the acts of their officials, and Robinson will most assuredly be able to collect a large indemnity for damages from the MeXi- can government for false imprisonment aLd brutal and inhuman treatment His course i'll standing trial and facing his accusers is to be commended. No man wants to run while under fire, and Robinson shows his true American grit ny staying with it. We hope he. will receive a speedy trial, be completely exonerated of all charges and then col. lect sum for damages from the Mexi- can government amply adequate to com pensate him for the terrible treatment he has endured. .- Such all outcome would be 6 complete vindication for him, lesson to the Mexican officials, not only at Mexicali, but all over Mexico; and matter of comfort and assurance to American citi- zens in any part of the Mexican Repub- lie. Robinson is now not only fighting his own battle, but that of hundreds of others as well, and our government does we'll to see that he gets d square deal
 The people of Imperial Valley are to be commended for their forbearance in not releasing Robinson by force when 1t became known what inhuman torture was being inflicted upon him, but it Is clear now that it will be best for 1 Robinson and best for any others who are or may be situated as he is, that the government be appealed 10 and the
 matter attended to through regular 1 diplomatic channels
 Before the week Is out we are furnish ed evidence of the change of tactics by the Mexican officials William Brand ely, the foreman of the California Mexican Land < Cattle Go. was arrested last week, charged with house burning and promptly 1arraigned before the l Mexican Justice of the Peace at Mexi- cali and bound over to the District l Court at Ensenala. Just as soon as preparations for the journey could be made both Brandley and Robinson were started for Ensenada. So now Robin son's long incarceration in the box car
 is at an end and the thing he has waited so long for is coming, and that is an opportunity to meet his accusers and prove himself innocent.
 l The people of Imperial Valley should 1 remem Der this episode and keep in mind the fact that the Mexican officials 1 will lespitcfuIly use our citizens when ever they fall i'll their power. When the orders came from the Mexican government to abolish the free zone these people construed it to mean a declaration of war, and proceeded to all kinds of excesses, even siezing a mans team and wagon who merely drove l across the line to turn the wagon around. Now, however, that they find that the effect of it is to double the cost of living and is starving them out. they are looking at the matter differ ently, and the citizens of Mexicali are signing for the good old days when the Americans patronized their stores and