The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1911-03-24
L|MANTOUR IS
LOYAL TO D|Az
PEACE FARLEY WITH INDivlDu.
AIS IN ARMS IMPOSSIBLE,
He SAYS.
SAYS THE REBELLION STREASON
Declares He Has No Desire to Take
Presidents chair-Denies
Interview With
Madero.

Mexico City, March %. - With a
warming to all Mexicans that with
every day the rebellion continue the
danger of international complications
increases, a plea to them to rally to
the support of General Diaz and a
declaration that the government never
can enter peace negotiations with in
dividuals in arms, Finance Minister
Jose Yves Limantour entered upon
the task Of ~pacification which the
world at least has set for him, and
upon the outcome of which the world
is interested.
Mr.. Limantour called informally up-
on the president at the national pal
ice The meeting was cordial In the
extreme, the two old friends shaking
one another by the hand and embrac-
ing repeatedly. Then followed a con.
ference lasting more than an hour, at
which no other person was present.
At its conclusion Senior Limantour
said that only generalities were dis
cussed.
Senior Limantour asserted that the
statement that he was the bearer of
conditions for the establishment of
peace, placed in his hands by the Ma
deros in New York, was an absurdity.
With bad grace could / be the
bearer of such a paper, when publicly
l have declared that the government
could never enter into negotiations
with individuals in arms. A govern
ment should do that which a reason
able public opinion demands, but it
should not and can not, on pain of ex-
tinguishing itself, accede to the armed
pressure Of a group of misguided sons
of the country. They must lay down
their arms if they wish to bring about
the reforms that may be necessary.
OF the instruction itself, Senior
Limantour had nothing to add, he said,
to what he had previously said, that
it constitutes a treason.
1T is a crime of les patria' that
those Mexicans who are fighting in the
ranks of the insurrectos are commit
ting, because every day the danger of
international complications increases.
l hope earnestly that those misguided
citizens who have taken part in this
movement will soon open their eyes
to the light of reason and not remain
longer deaf to the persuasive voice of
patriotism"
In reply to a suggestion that great
results were expected to follow his
return to Mexico, he said:
1T is a heavy burden that public
opinion would place upon my should
ers, and no one man can carry it with
out the cooperation of all good Mex
leans. | furthermore cannot under
stand why such an effort is demanded
of me, when the direction of the policy
Of our government is in the hands Of
no less a mar than the illustrious
statesman who has formed the coun-
try, who has developed it and has CIV
en- it a high place among the nations.
1--WE must then place our confidence
in the expert helmsman who in the
past has skillfully met the greatest
dangers, and lend him all the aid of
which we are capable, each in his re-
spective sphere of action, doing all
possible to the end that harmony may
reign again among all MeXicans, for
the removal to a greater distance Of
danger from without, as for the
searching close at hand for a method
of ~implanting the reforms, more or
less urgent, required by the present
political situation"
There was published this morning.
it was suggested, "a dispatch from
New York in which Gustavo A. Ma
dero declared you were to take charge
temporarily Of the presidency of the
republic"
Another a~bsurdity," said Senior
Limantour. Already in times past,
when some of my friends have be-
sought me to become a candidate for
the vice presidency, / declared my
firm resolution not to accept any posi-
ton in the militant politics of my
country, being disposed to lend my
services to the administrative branch
SO long as they might be considered
useful by the majority of my fellow
countrymen. Since then the times
have only served to confirm and
strengthen my determination in that
direction"
Madero In Chihuahua.
Chihuahua, March GAN American
photographer named Harris. arrived
from Eel Sauce, bringing news that
Madero and Orozco, with more than
1000 men, are awaiting at that town
- -L.-.
the arrival of Francisco Villa and 9TH
err leaders. preparatory to attacking
chihuahua.