The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-05-13
MADERo's NEW GOVERNMENT

Events move fast these days in Mex.
leo There is radical change now,
and one that puts the Madero claims
on an entirely different and more ad-
vantaSeous footing from the situation
as it was when the recent aborUve
At that time Madcro was simply a
guerrilla chief fighting against the
government of has country. Now he is
de facto ruler through his assumption
of the Presidency of the Republic, and
the organization of a provisional gov
crnmcnt, He is in possession Of much
of the northern part of Mexico, and
doubtless the other inSurrcctionary
chiefs throughout Mexico, who are
fighting Diaz, will make terms with
Madero and further his plans upon such
recognition of themselves as they can
negotiate or compel.
1t is manifest that Madero' s success,
his assumption of the Presidency, and
his organization Of government, put
him on an advanced plane from any
that he has claimed heretofore He will
now claim treatment as an equal with
piaz. He will doubtless demand the
submission of DlaZ, and it looks as
though he might succeed in forcing it
By his stroke IN organizing provis
ional government, he gives notice to
the world that he aspircs to the Pres
idency of the Republic of Mex
leo, and he cannot he expected to
abate anything Of that claim if
in fact, President Of all that part OF
Mexico which he holds in subjection,
and as he obtains more territory, his
actual Presidency will expand. Here
toforc the question of the Presidency
of Mexico in succession to Diaz has
been an open one. 1t is so no longer.
The next President of Mexico will be
Diaz or Madero, with the possibility
of disruption OF the Republic, and
The setting up of separate dictotor-
ship or republic IN Northern Mexico.
A pressing question Will Immediately
arise as to the supplies which Madero
will seek to draw from this country.
There is no obligatio on the part of
the United States to cause its citizens
to refrain from selling supplies OF any
kind to Madero's forces. If the Mex
lean government can capture these sup
plies, well and good; they will be con
traband Of war. But 1t is no viola
tion of neutrality. or of International
law, for American citizens to supply
Madero with whatever he requires. The
will be between him and
those from whom he makes his pur~
chases, and it will be no part of the
duty of the United States to interfere
between the buyer and the seller, no
matter what the articles may be. This
was principle fully asserted by the
European powers during the civil war
in this country, when blockade running
became profession, as well as COM
mercial enterprise. Such blockade run
ners as the United States could cap
ture they confiscated. Those that made
their way into the Confederate ports
made huge profits. but no nationality
could be held responsible in either case
1t is true that after the war closed,
the United States recovered S15,000,000
damages from Great Britain, but that
was on another account; it was because
Great Britain allowed q privateer for
the Confederate service to be built in
an English port, almost openly, in de.
fiance of neutrality. That Confederate
cruiser inflicted tremendous damage
upon American commerce, an injury
from which our deep sea marine has
never recovered. But so far as the sell
ing of supplies of all kinds to the Con.
federates was concerned, there was
never any bar to it, and never any re.
eovery of damages on that account
Just so now in the case of Madero s
forces He has substantial basis close
to the boundary line, and it is the
duty Of the Mexican government to pre-
vent his getting supplies from the
United States, or from any other coun~
try for that matter, if it can. Ma
dero's position has been enormously
within the past week. He.
of course, will be conscious of the ad-
vantages thus gained, and will make
the most Of them