Bisbee daily review., 1906-05-01
United States Not Negotiating With Mexicans for Low
 CT California,
SALE WOULD BE
 UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
Mexican Paper Brands Re- port as One Prompted by Malice or Mere Stiffness and Is Nothing But Speculation,

Several of the border newspapers 1 have lately been printing stories or negotiations of this government with the government of Mexico for the pur- chase of lower California and some have gone so far as to intimate that
 the deal has been practically con 1 cluded.
 | Mexican Consul A. Pima of Phoenix sends the following from the Mexican Herald to show the baseless character
 of these stories:
 "A good many American newspapers have recently published alleged tele- grams purporting to have been sent | from this city and from Mazatlan, but I in all probability originating on the border, to the effect that Mexico IS willing to sell the Peninsula Of Lower California to the United States and | is about to open negotiations with the | American government to that edn. 1 This statement is not only false but also absurd and calumnious.
 "The government could not if it would, and would not if it could, sell ! Lower California to the United States or to any other power for that matter.
 Tt could not if it would, as the Constitution forbids it to alienate an | inch of the national territory.
 1 Tt would not if it could for the req son that not only would such an act | be diametrically opposed to the patrl. otic antecedents and sentiments ot General Diaz and the members Of his government. but that-supposing for | a moment the mpossibility-even if 1t were disposed to entertain such | project, the people of Mexico would affix to 1t their strongest reproduction. | On the other hand, there Is abso- Iutely no reason why Meico should | want to sell Lower California and there are no special circumstances at the present time that give any par ticular pertinence to the discussion or that can have afforded any foundation | in fact for the preposterous rumors | in question.
 l whether those rumors originated Tn mere stiffness or in malice can De nothing but a theme Of speculation: l Certain it is however, that reports or this nature apearing in the American
 papers do a great deal or harm They i do harm, because they wound tne Ilegitimate susceptibilities of the Mex ican people in point as to which they are peculiarly sensitive, and thus they tend to keep alive sentiments Of dis trust and suspicion which, in these days when the relations of the awo
 governments are so cordial and satis- | factory and commercial intercourse between the neighboTing nations IS constantly increasing, ought to be last disappearing.
 The governments of the United States and Mexico are working just now in entire accord, particularly ID regard to the preparations for the coming Pan-American conference. And l it is to be regretted that irresponsl- ble sensationalism in the manufacture of news should to some etent tend to counteract the realization of the fuli benefits that ought to flow from this practical entente between the chan celleries of the two powers.
 Such rumors do harm to mericans and American interests in Mexico, Tor, anti-American tirades on the part or journals which exploit ancient anl-
 mosities, they are an obstacle to that
 complete frankness and unreserved
 friendliness of intercourse which
 ought to prevail between the people
 of the sister republics. We would
 not. of course, be understood as mean
 ing that decent and self-respecnnS
 Americans are not well treated nere.
 They are and a!WayS nave pSSn- Doe
 there is room for even greater recipro-
 cal regard to which these idle and
 noandacious rumors. keeping old |
 wounds ranking, operate as bar.
 "Fortunately, however, there is so
 much intercourse at present between | the enlightened classes of the two i
 countries that their diplomatic re- lations are so cordial that rumors like !
 the one in question, while annoying l
 and sincerely to be deprecated, can
 not permanently estrange or prevent l
 the realization of the manifest des-
 tiny of the two nations which is that
 of complete political separateness on
 the basis of mutual respect and ever
 more intimate relations-diplomati i
 social, intellectual and commercial.
 Ball at opera house tonight. |