The Irish standard., 1911-03-25
INSIST upon
ARMED TRUCE
MEXICANS WILL NOT LAY DOWN
ARMS TILL REFORMS ARE
EFFECTED.
NO OTHER TERMS CONSIDERED
Promises Of Government Have No
Weight With the Rcbcls.-Ncn-
Comhatants Face Starva-
ton in Towns.

El raso. March o3.--Notwi,hs,and :
ing reports from Mexico City, il is
the opinion OF insurrccto leaders here
that Senior Limantour's conferences
with Prcsidcn, Daz will have import.
AM results looking toward peace.
They assert that Senior lin,antour has
had an object in concealing his mission
to Mexico and that in reality great 20
lit ical changes are in formation under
terms partly agreeable to the insur-
rectos. Wha, the inSurrectoS fear is
thar the reforms will he only partial.
yet enough to induce many hundreds
now in revolt to lay down their arms
without achieving a complete success
and without the retirement of Pres,
den, Diaz.
1--WE now believe Iimantour all
along has had plans which he was I'M
able to div,lsc and which he attempt
ed to conceal by rather untactful
and antngonistic attitude toward us"
Senior Gonzales Cara, the insurrerto
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 Dia2 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, il is folly to
talk of peace
Conditions Grow Worse.
Meantime conditions i'm the waraf-
, f1icted parts Of northern Mexico arc
rapidly growing worse. From north
of Chihuahua City. 225 miles to tho
border, and westward into Sonora
state the ins,lrrectos are surrounding
the towns with a view to inducing non
combatants 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 Amcri-
can connected with n mine near Casas
Grandes, said:
| "In few weeks, instead OF send,
| ing troops into Mexico. the United
States probably will have to send r"'
lief trains The position Of non-com
batants is rapidly becoming like that
OF the reconcentrados during tn"
Cuban insurrecton."
Within the last week Francisco J.
Madero the revolutionary president
is said to have increased his force
from 900 to 500 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 al Casas Grandes
In reply to the federal governments
announcement Of the suspension OF
personal guarantees. the insurr"ctos
have sent orders to their troops thai.
any captured federas 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 /, small party OF fcdcrals under
Colonel Anguiana. The colonel was
shot, but the soldiers Joined the in
surrectos with loud cries Of Viva
Madero.'
Promises Doubted by Insurrectos.
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.. Vasqucz Gomez
their representative IN Washington. is
sued statement out lining the atli-
tuie Of the rcvolutionists toward peace
overtnrcs and reforms in the republic
The statement says:
"'Thc revolutionary party. which is
constituted Of the best men of the
country doctors. lawyers. artisans
workingmen and the like, are firm IN
declaring that they will not enter inlc
anything but formal negotiations f0l
peace. 1t cannot accept as a Gilaran
tee only the promise Of government
that has for more than 50 years beer
promising and has never fulfilled {
single one Of its promises. II canno
believe that the government will
change it's methods of so many years
methods imposed upon The people b!
, force despite the possibility of s1ci
assurances in a guarantee.
1.-The rovolutionists think, and Will
reason, that Immediately following thu
laying down of their arms many Of tht
leaders would die mysteriously, no rc
forms ever would be granted and tn
oppression would be greater than ever
For this reason they will rot accept a.
q guarantee the promises Of the gov
ernmenl. because they know that nom
of them will be complied with. A
little, too, will they accept as a gual
antee Mr.. Lin1antour. or any other in
dividual, because one man cannot arr
must not serve as a guarantee for
y political party fighting for the lbcrt
8 Of a people and much less when sncl
l. q man has been and is the right ham
:, Of the depressing government
d "The revolutionists do not desire III
E complete elimination Of the opposin
e party, because everyone knows that
8 is necessary to have opposite partie
l. in nation in order to maintain polit
e cal equilibrium and righteous admin!