The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1911-04-11
Cause Of Hasty Movement
Of Troops to Border.
ULTIMATUM TO MEXICO
Sister Republic Given Six Days to
Abrosate Agreement With Japan in
Which the Latter Country Was Civ
en- a CoaIing Station and other Con-
cessions-Diaz Government Meekly
Complies With Demands.

New York, April 1.-THE Sun prints
the following from the City Of Mexico:
Facts of the most significant char
acter bearing upon the reason for the
sudden mobilization a month ago OF
10000 American troops at three points
within striking distance of the Mex
ican border have become known here.
Henry l.. Wilson, United States
ambassador to Mexico, many months
ago realized the strong antipathy OF
Mextcans of all classes toward the
United States and he began a quiet
investigation
'He learned through certain steam
ship and railroad officials that for the
last eighteen months every ship of the
Nippon Yusen Kaisha coming into
Seattle, and of the Toyo Kisen Kaisha,
into San Francisco, was carrying from
20 to $50 Japanese, passage paid, all
of whom were bound for Mexico,
where they had been granted tracts
for cotton and corn raising.
Duiih5 ICpi utl tIV dlhbuopouSA
obtained the original of secret treaty
between Japan and Mexico. He kept
1t long enough to have photograph
made of 1t and then it was returned to
it's place in the archives of the Mex
lean state department
Japan Secured coaIins Station.
"The clauses of the secret treaty
gave Japan lease of coaling station
and maneuver grounds in Magdalena
bay with the alternative of a coaling
station at one other of the few scat
tered ports down the main coast. IL
also gave Japanese commercial line
OF steamships permission to have its
own coaling station at point on the
Pacific coast and granted certain other
colonization rights in the state along
the western coasG The treaty, while
not stipulating an offensive and defen
sive alliance, gave in a diplomatic way
Japan's keen interest in the protection
Of Mexico against aggression.
"The treaty had been ratified, not by
the Mexican senate, but by Diaz and
his cabinet.
''The day after he had obtained the
photograph Mr.. Wilson took the train
for Washington. He wired to the state
department of his coming and of the
urgency of his mission. When he ar
rived in Washington the cabinet was
already in session with the president
The ambassador laid before the presi
dent and his advisers the evidence he
had brought with him.
Rapid Action Is Taken.
"That was in the morning. At moor
Chief of Staff Wood received an i'm
perative summons to the White House
and he interrupted his lunch to obey
He was closeted with the presiden
and cabinet for several hours.
"That night the building of the wal
department was ablaze with lights ant
orders were going out for the mobiliza
ton which has excited so much specu
lation ever since.
"Then Mr.. Wilson hurried to New
York to see Senor Limantour, who had
just returned from Europe. The Mexi
can finance minister was informed tina
Mexico had just six days in which tt
abrogate the secret treaty and that |
this was not done the United States
government would take whatever ac
tion 1t should see fit to defend itsel
against the unwarranted action o
both Mexico and Japan.
within a week of Limantour's re
turn to Mexico the order went from
Washington recalling all American
warships from Mexican waters. Thi
was the only outward sign that Mexic'
had complied with the demands OF th