The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-11
FROM OTHER PENS
DIAZS DANGER.

While President Diaz has consented
to an armistice in the northern tier of
States, the insurgents are steadily
moving closer to the City of Mexico,
which is in a weak state of defense.
Already about half of Mexico has been
abandoned by the Dfaz government.
If it should be driven from the capital
| it would soon go out of existence.
In every war the capital of the
country is the supreme prize of which
the enemy seeks to secure possession.
1t is the point on which naturally vic
tory or defeat hangs. Guerilla meth
DDS may be carried on Indefinitely by a
government on wheels. as in South
Africa, but it is the last desperate re-
sistance of a broken cause.
France still had large forces in the
field after the provisional government
withdrew from Paris and the Germans
invested the city, but the surrender of
the city ended the war. The capture
of Richmond was the one victory
above all others at which q succession
Eof Northern generals aimed. It was
the one stronghold for which Lee and
his generals staked everything else. 1t
represented the Government.
If the Diaz Government shall pro-
tract the peace negotiations until the
City of Mexico passes out of its control
it will be in a poor position to make
terms with the Maderists. An armis-
tice that leaves the vital point of the
to prove an unsafe hope.-New York
World
SPENDING MONEY. ABROAD.
Basing calculations on the estimate
that the number of American tourists
in Europe in a season is 100000, and
that the average individual expendi-
ture by these tourists is $3.50, someone
has easily figured that about 1925, 000,-
900 of American money is spent
abroad in the course of a season; and
this does not include the cost of steam
ship tickets. Bankers who handle the
letters of credit for wealthy American
tourists are quoted to the effect that
of these letters Among tourists of the
wealthy class, says the report, it is
common to place from SIS, 1000 to $75,-
900 in the hands of the bankers, and,
amount is drawn. Possibly the major
premise of this main proposition has
been overdrawn; possibly the minor
premise; possibly both-and possibly
mitted that $225,00O.000 is a tremen-
dous sum of American money to be
taken to Europe and left there in a
single season. To be sure, foreign
tourists come to America, and some of
them spend money freely over here;
but no one supposes for minute that
the money they leave on this side is at
all commensurate with the expendi- |
lures of Americans abroad.-MancheS-
ter Union.
ANNEXATION A FALSE ISSUE.
The opponents of Canadian annexa-
ton are proceeding on the theory that |
any stick is good enough to beat a dog |
with. The issue is not raised in the |
agreement with Canada 1t is known |
to all that Canada is rather sensitive |
on the subject, and the more that is |
said regarding the probability of an |
nexation, the more likely Canada itself |
will be to reject the agreement Even |
Canadians who are friendly to annexa- |
ton do not propose to be dragged or
pulled into the Union, and resent the |
idea of annexation by tndirection. In
Prince of Illinois, insists that reci- |
procity means annexation because he |
knows that will create i'll feeling in
Canada and will complicate the Ameri- |
can support of the measure
We have had reciprocity arrange
ments with several countries The alb
sorption of Hawaii was due to other
forces entirely and had nothing to do
with reciprocity except so far as that
policy had promoted American owner
ship of Hawaiian commerce. The re-
lation of this to the annexation was
very remote. We have a reciprocity
treaty with Cuba; there is not the least
probability of the annexation of Cuba. |
Reciprocity with the Dominion is more
likely to defer than to expedite annex |
alton. So long as the British connec- |
ton is not inconsistent with Canadian |
trade interests, Canada will remain |
Observation-Disclosures Record.