The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1908-10-13

which have broken out in quarter
OF century. In fact, only one other
raid OF any consequence has taken
place since General Diaz became pres
ident, that being the capture and burn
ing OF small post at San 1gnacio,
on the Mexican side, by Catarino Gar
"a some fifteen years ago.
The United States authorities here
Many Insurectos.
now know that some 600 or 700 arm
ed and mounted men took part in the
Las Vacas and Viesca raids, and that
besides the support extended them by
the revolutionary juntas maintained
at Austin, San Antonio, Ell Paso and
other towns on the border, there is a
big revolutionary party in Mexico who
only await the hour Of opportunity
to rise and make common cause
against the existing government.
Calixto Guerro, the Las Vacas raid
er, captured by the United States mar
shals, and whose case will be tried
at Del Rio on October~26, states that
the revolutionists firmly believe that
as they advanced on Las Vacas they
would be Joined by the Mexican troops
and the people generally. That such
reinforcements failed them he attri-
butes to no lack of sympathy, but to
the alertness of the Diaz government
and dread of its prompt and summary
methods
So long as Don Porfirio lived such
enterprises must promise immediate
success or they must collapse and
their ill-starred participants furnish
frr thn h,,0 n~lr t. L.
Ing dice with death, and even such
daredevils and gamblers as the border
Mexicans hesitate to buck the game
with such desperate odds against
them.
1t is for. this reason that the avow-
ed revolutionists headguarter on Am
erican soil Guerro says they abound
in thousands all the way from
Brownsville to California. Under the
aegis of the Stars and Stripes they is
sue and circulate pamphlets and pro-
nunciamentoes declaiming against the
dictator" and teaching hatred of the
Americanos and other foreigners in
Mexico.
Time and again the Mexican ambas-
sadors at Washington have complain
ed to the American government of
the activity of these agitators, but as
this is country where freedom OF
speech, and publication abound, they
could not be suppressed on account of
their political opinions, nor would
the government agree to grant their
eXtradition. Not until they committed
some overt act which violated our
laws Of neutrality could they be
reached.
Government Efforts.
After the Las Vacas affair last June
Mariscal. Mexican minister Of foreign
affairs. gave the Associated Press an
interview in which he very frankly
blamed the United States authorities
for not showing greater diligence in
suppressing these raids organized on
American soil. Ambassador Creel
hastened to Washington and laid the
matter before the state department
and about the same time the American
ambassador to Mexico, Mr. Thompson,
look occasion to stop over at Austin
on one of his trips and confer with
Governor Campbell. Senator Creel
invoked the activity of the federal au-
thorities to enforce neutrality, and Mr..
Thompson bespoke the cooperation of
the state of Texas in suppressing such
disturbances, so far as Texas laws ap-
piled.
At once two troops OF cavalry were
dispatched from Fort Sam Houston
to Eagle Pass, opposite where the Las
Vacas raids were made, and United
States Marshal Nolte of this district
was instructed 10 employ extra dep
uties to patrC! the border and appre-
her all offenders against the neu-
trality laws Several arrests have al
ready been made and sixty warrants
are out for the arrest of other rev.
volurionists
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