Arizona republican., 1911-03-12
L|MANTOUR'S
RESENTMENT
Angered By New York
Newspaper Story
A CAP|TAL|ST|C PLOT
The Minister of Finance
Does Not Want to Be
PreSident-He Takes Oc-
casion to Explain What
Intervention" Means.
A CAPITAL|SHC PLOT

New York, March 11.-"And. after
Diaz what" Senior Jose Limantour
Mexican minister of finance in his
apartment overlooking Central Park
addressed himself this question with
an Indignation foreign to his usual
well-poised and courtly manner He
had been shown . report printed by
some evening newspapers that Amer
lean financial interests with dominant
holdings in Mexico had set on foot a
plan to procure the resignation of
DiaZ, and set Up Limantour himself
in the executive chair The sugges-
ton that private capital and foreign
capital at that, could make and I'M
make Mexican administrations pro-
Voked both his ridicule and anger
How stupid" was his first words
Il should be the last person to be
suspected of lending myself To such a
design" He added, Even if by a
stretch of Imagination one could sup
pose it to be true. There is no Sc
cret that President Diaz has several
times asked me to accept the presi-
dency at tine expiration OF his term
duties which / now fulfill are most
congenial to me, and because l be-
lieve / can be of most service to the
country in continuing with them.
There is no truth in the report"
The Mexican minister was asked to
explain a dispatch from Mexico City
received this afternoon that the gov
Crnment proposed to suspend consti-
tutional guarantees throughout the
republic, with the explanation that
This means a mild form Of martial
law"
Not at all" said Mr.. Limantour
What it means is not martial law
even in a mild form but an abbre-
Walton of civil procedure. Prisoners
are still to be tried before a civil
judge but the court procedure will be
curtailed.
To return to President Diaz for a
moment; | wish to make myself plain
Much has been printed to the effect
what his death would have on Mex
leo. President Diaz is truly a great
man and his death would be an in
estimable loss to Mexico but even ma
tional bereavement would not mean
that civil government would disappear
from the face Of the land.
Now, as to the matter Of inter
vention, that word has been much
used and loosely used although / rec
ognize that il has not been employed
by your government. | wonder. do
the newspapers that print it and the
persons who speak it freely, realize
what it means?
Il have said today that I am
great believer in the keen sense of
justice Of Americans, and I wish to
re-affirm that most emphatically. r
wish most seriously to call your at
tentiOn TO what intervention. So
called in this case must mean. When
an armed force crosses the border
Of a neighbOring power without either
invitation or permission what does
that mean? 1t means invasion and
occupation And what do invasion
and occupation mean except war2 ri
ask the sober sense of the great
masses Of the American people 10
dwell on that word What has Mex
leo done to deserve a threat Of war?
None has been made by the American
government. but an inference of a
threat has been taken by the news
papers. | do not believe that it is
by the wishes Of the Amer
lean people. Along the border there
may be those who sympathize with
the insurrectos. | know. in fact, that
trouble makers are plenty"