Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1911-03-24
MEXICANS WILL NOT LAY DOWN
ARMS TILL REFORMS ARE
EFFECTED.
NO OTHER TERMS CONSIDERED
Promises of Government Have No
Weight With the Rebels.-Non-
Combatants Face Starva-
ton in Towns.

Eel Paso, March 23.-NOtWithstand-
ing reports from Mexico City, 1t is
the opinion of insurrecto leaders here
that Senior Limantour's conferences
with President Diaz will have import
ant results looking toward peace.
They assert that Senior LimantOur has
had an object in cOncealing his mission
to Mexico and that in reality great po-
litic2l changes are in formation under
terms partly agreeable to the insur-
rectOs. What the insurrectOs fear is
that the reforms will be only partial,
yet enough to induce many hundreds
now in revol; to lay down their arms
without achieving & complete success
and without the retirement of Presl-
dent Diaz.
1--WE now believe I.imantour all
along has had plans which he was I'M
able to divulge and which he attempt
ed to conceal by a rather untactful
and antagonistic attitude toward us,
Senior Gonzales Cara, the insurrecto
secretary of state, said. I'VE THINK
he will offer a proposal by which he
hopes to end the war. Our demands
for the retirement of Diaz and the
maintenance of our arms until peace
is assured are the stumbling blocks
On these we are unwilling to yield.
Without an armed truce, it is folly to
talk of peace
Conditions Grow Worse.
Meantime conditions in the war-af-
ficted parts of northern Mexico are
RAPIDLY growing worse. From north
of chihuahua City, 225 miles to the
border, and westward into Sonora
state the insurrectos are surrounding
the towns with view to inducing non
ombatants to join their ranks and to
keep supplies from being taken from
| the country. Refugees who are reach
| ing the border say many non-combat-
ants are facing starvation. An Ameri-
can connected with mine near Casas
Grandes, said:
| "In a few weeks, instead of send
ing troops into Mexico, the United
States probably will have to send re-
lief trains The position of non-com-
batants is rapidly becoming like that
! of the 'reconcentrados during the
| Cuban instruction"
Within the last week Francisco |.
| Madero, the revolutionary president,
| is said to have increased his force
| from 1000 to 800 men, all we'll sup
piled with ammunition. He is report
ed to be operating to prevent General
Rabago from relieving the federal
| forces besieged at Casas Grandes.
In reply to the federal governments
announcement of the suspension OF
| personal guarantees, the inSurTectos
have sent orders to their troops that
any captured federals are first to be
given the privilege of joining the in
surrectos, and if they refuse are to
| be shot.
Captain Cabral, an insurrecto, cap
tured a small party of federals under
Colonel Anguiana. The colonel was
shot, but the soldiers joined the in
surrectos with loud cries of Viva
Madero.'
Promises Doubted by insurrectos.
i Washington, March 23.-Announcing
that they will not lay down their arms
until formal negotiations for peace are
under way, the revolutionary party of
Mexico, through Dr. Vasquez Gomez,
their representative in Washington, is
sued statement outlining the atti
tude of the revolutionists toward peace
overtures and reforms in the republic
The statement says:
THE revolutionary party, which is
constituted Of the best men of the
country doctors, lawyers, artisans,
workingmen and the like, are firm in
anything but formal negotiations for
peace. 1t cannot accept as a guaran-
tee only the promise of a government
that has for more than 80 years been
promising and has never fulfilled a
single one of its promises. 1t cannot
I believe that the government will
] change it's methods of so many years,
0 force. despite the possibility of such
] assurances in a guarantee.
THE revolutionists think, and with
reason, that Immediately following the
laying down of their arms many of the
I leaders would die mysteriously, no re-
forms ever would be granted and the
2 oppression would be greater than ever.
For this reason they will not accept as
I guarantee the promises of the gov
eminent because they know that none
Of them will be complied with. AS
little, too, will they accept as guar
antee Mr.. Limantour, or any other in
dividual, because one man cannot and
must not serve as a guarantee for a
. political party fighting for the liberty
of people, and much less when such
a man has been and is the right hand
of the depressing government.
THE revolutionists do not desire the
complete elimination of the opposing
5 party, because everyone knows that it
is necessary to have opposite parties
. in nation in order to maintain politi-
o cal equilibrium and righteous admins.
tration. AS little will they refuse to
enter into peace negotiations for the