The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-03-12
DEATH WITHOUT TRIAL
FOR MEXICAN REBELS
Continued From Page One.

choice in most cases--the execution
must not be delayed except for the
purpose of seeking executive pardon
| This right is guaranteed,
Throwing Stone Means Death.
So broad is that clause covering in
terference with the operation Of trains
that it is made 10 include even the
! throwing of q stone at passenger
trnln.
Placing distractions on the track,
changing signals derailing IN any man
ner train, damaging in any way the
rolling stock, even the removal of a
piece of timber or bit of iron, the
drawing of the spikes from the ties or
the commission of any act calculated
to endanoer life or property or to i'm
nair the efficiency of the service are
features of this portion of the law
and for the commission death is the
~eualty; summary death if detected IN
the commission and death at the end
Of eight days if found guilty.
In reviewing this provision of the
Mexican constitution, President Diaz is
preparing to use again that weapon
with which he whipped his country
into order many years ago, The rea-
son for the destruction Of property this
time is different. but General Diaz be-
will be today. In it's application the
law will fit the FOREIGNER as it will tho
native In the ranks of the rebels
there are numerous Americans and a
few Of other nationaities,
Americans May Be Executed.
Should any of these soldiers of for
tune be captured while in the act of
blowing up bridge they will not be
entitled under this clause of the con-
stitution TO any more mercy than is
accorded TO the Mexican revnlutionists.
Although the mere announcement
that the government intends TO deal
mercilessly with those detected in acts
of outlawry Will have Il most bene.
ficial effect, Minister Of War Manuel
Gonzales believes the full force of the
measure will not be felt until ap-
piled,
"The immediate efficacy of the
system will begin to be felt, said he,
"when the first penalties are inflict-
ed on the persons of those arrested
in the commission of their crimes
Minister Cosio was discussing that
clause which provides that those de-
fected in the commission of those acts
for which the death penalty is pre-
scribed shall be executed summarily by
the arresting force.
That the war department expects TO
cooperate to carrying out the provis"
ion there is no doubt. The minister
said that in order to make more eff
cacious the action of the executive In
reviewing this ,long.unused provision
of the constitution, the guards along
the common highway as we'll as along
the railroads would be doubled
Comment of Mexican Press.
Ell Impartial says: "Those who see
in this act movement toward inter
vention are busy embroiderlng fancy
designs on thin air ~
Gil Bias owe must reject the
bunch of lies that the Yankees have
any intention TO take possession of
our country even under the pretext of
guardianship.
''The United States has given us
lesson by which we must profit;
even though it is terrifying remarks
the newspaper FL Tempo
''1u five days they were able to
put an army on our frontier and two
squadrons of warships on our coast.
We cannot oppose them with single
warship or with soldiers. This calls
for preparation TO meet any possible
event In the future. We must make
ready an armament and munitions for
several hundred thousand men and
sufficiently provided for a long cam,
paign without having to ask foreign
nations for single grain Of powder,
single cartridge, single rifle