The Sentinel=record., 1911-03-12
INTERVENTION
 MEANS VAR
SENIOR LlMANTouR, MINISTER OF FINANCE, WARNS UNCLE
 SAM OF RESULT.
Denies That Trere is a Plan on Foot to Make Him President of Mex
 ico--Says Press is Too Careless.
New York. March ll.--After Diaz

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 Senor Jose Yves limantour. tae Mexican minister of finance, sat in his spacious apartment overlooking Cen tral Park and addressed himself to the question with indignation foreign to his usual poise and ccurtly temper ance of diction. He had ust been shown the report printed in some of the evening newspapers that Amer ican financial interests with domi nant holdings in Mexico have on foot d. plan to procure the resignation of President Dsz and to set up Senor dsimantour himself in the executive chair. The suggestion that private capital, and foreign capital at that, could make and unmake Mexican ad : ministrations and ministries provoked both his ridicule and his anger.
 '1How stupidl" was the first word. T should be tae last person to ba suspected of lending myself to suca a design" h added, 'even If by a stretch of imagination one could sup pose it true, It is no secret that Presi- dent Diaz has several times asked me to accept the presidency at ths expiration of his term. have al ways refused. because the dutias which I now fulfill are those most cot genial to me and because l believe can be of most service to my coun- try by continuing with them There |is io trut1 in the report.
 "If it is true that the iLsurrection. ists or certain of their leaders holi me in some esteem. that is because have acted as advisor for the grand father of these Maderos. who are now prominent in the present uprisings They have grown to be a wealth 2 family and their wealth would seem to indicate that they have prospere under the government which they now attack.
 The Mexican minister was asked to explain dispatch from Mexico City received this afternoon that the gov 'ernment proposed to suspend the con stitutional guarantees throughout the republic with the explanation that this means mild form of martial law"
 Not at all,' he said. What it means is not martial law, even in d mild form, but an abbreviation of the civil procedure. Prisoners will still be tried before civil judge. but tho court procedure will be curtailed
 ITO return to President Diaz fer a moment, wish to make myself plain Much has been printed of the effect that his deata would have on Mexico President Diaz is truly a great maa and his death would be an inestma ble loss to Mexico, but even a national bereavement does not mean that the civil government would disappear from the face of the land. It has been said, I think. that the government has under advisement program of re form, quite independently of the pres ent unrest. Tn any event. 1t is certain that such program is under consid eration and that It's development only awaits the laying down of arms by the rebels.
 Now, as to this matter of inter vention, tine word has been much used loosely, although recognize that il has not been employed by your gov ernment. I wonder do the newspa pers that print it and the persons wac speak 1t so freely realize what il means? I have said today that an a great believer in the keen sense ol justice of the American people. wish to reaffirm that most emphati cally and wish most seriously to ca. to attention what interven lion, so called in this case. must mean
 When an armed force crosses th' border of a neighboring power with out either invitation or permission what does that mean? It means invas ion, occupation. And what do invas ion and occupation mean except war
 VI ask the sober sense of the grea masses of the American people t dwell on that word. What has Mexic done to deserve threat of war None has been made by the Americal government, but the inference of suc a threat has been drawn by tn Inewspapers. don't believe it is war