The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-21
JOSE L|MANTOUR SOUNDS WARNING
 ID ALL MEXICANS
Continuance of Rebellion Increases International
 Complications
FIRST PROCLAMATION
 FOR PEACE Is ISSUED
Mexican Minister of Finance Says Rebels Are Committing Treason and Appeals to Them to
 Lay Down Arms


 | Mexico City, March 20-With a warn- ing to all Mexicans that with every day the rebellion continues the danger of in- ternational complications increases plea to them to rally to the support of l General Diaz, and a declaration that the government never can enter into peaoe negotiations with individuals in arms, Finance Minister Jose Yves Iimantour entered upon the task of pacification which the world at last has set for him and upon the outcome of which the whole world is interested l The special car in which he traveled | from New York reached the national station here at 10 o'clock to the min ute today Hundreds of persons, among whom were many officials and sprlnl1- ling of women were on hand to greet the travellers, and what with .the salu- tations of many personal friends and the reading of addresses of welcome by appointed representatives of various bo- dies, the shouting of ''vivas' by the crowd, the reception given was truly a l hign tribute to the minister's popularity. 1 President Diaz's greeting was convey ed through one of his official family, the meeting between the two most talked of men in the republic having been de- | ferred until later
 Goes to Home The ovation over, Mr Limantour and the members of his family went at once by automobile to the Limantour home in Mixcoac, nearby suburb, where later the minister received representatives of | the press.
 | MT. Limantour declared
 ment that he was the be lts 1 tions for the establishmefss 4f n
 placed in his hands by t Zts l New York, was absurd
 With bad grace could ' ae afer of such a paper, when publicly l have
 declared that the government could never enter into negotiations with indi- viduas in arms. A government should do that which a reasonable public opn- ion demands, but it should not and cam not, on pain of extingtishing itself ac- cede to the armed pressure of a group of misguided sons of the country. They must lay down their arms if they wish to bring about the reforms that may l be necessary"
 | Of the insurrection itself Mr Liinan- tour had nothing to add, he sad to what he has previously said, that it con- | stitutes treason.
 ''It is a crime of 1esa patria' that thoss | Mexieans who are fighting in the ranks | of the insurrectos are committing be- l cause every day the danger of interna- | tional complications increase. 1 hope 1 earnestly that those misguided citizens l who have taken part in fhiS will soon open their eyes to the light of reason and not remain longer definite l to the persuasive voice of patriotism.' | In reply to a suggestion that great re- | suits were expected to follow his return 1 to Mexico he said:
 A Heavy Burden Tt is heavy burden that public opin- | ion would place upon my shoulders, and no one man can carry it without the CO., 1 operation of all good Mexieans. l fur thermore, cannot understand why such | information is demanded of me, whsn the direction of the poicy of our govern- | ment is in the hands of no less a man | than the illustrious statesman who has | formed the country, who has developed | 1t and has given it a high place among | the nations We must then place our l confidence in the expert helms,nan who | in the past has skillfully met the great | est dangers and lend him all the aid of l spective sphere of action. doing all possi- ble to the end that harmony may reign | again among all MeXicans, for the re- moval to q greater distance of danger | from without. as for the searching close at hand for a method of implanting the reforms. required by the present politi- | cal situation.
 l There was published this morning. it was suggested, "a dispatch from New York in which Gustavo A. Madero de- I clared that you had returned to Mexico to | take charge temporarily of the presidency of the republic"
 | Reports Are Absurd | Another absurdity," said Mr. Liman- | tour. Already in times past when sonis of my friends have besought me to be- l come a candidate for the vice presidency, | I declared my firm resolution not to | accept any post in the militant politics | of my country being disposed 10 lend my services to the administrative branch so long as they might be considered use | full by the majority of my fellow country men. Since then the times have only l served to confirm and strengthen my de- termination in that direction. Not been l willing then to accept it and when l could | count upon the elements which offered i it. mach less would l think of such n | thing at the present tune, when it is | the duty of all good Mexicans to rally about General Diaz to avert the dangers | that menace our common country.
 T do not aspire to a post in the high militant politics; but even if l should so aspire, I have always believed that the | salvation Of Mexico depended first upon the union of all Mexlcans. and second. that every one should have, as the rue of his conduct, the subordinaton of ev- erything to the highest interests of tho