Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-08-30

States shall compel the war
M ring factions n Mexico to fight =
their battles grounds and
to their guns in directions
that will kill and MAIN
people and damage property on
the American side They
serI InaI zone of neutrality be establish-
ed maintained by American army patroning
the frontier.
These people also crticise the state department
for its attitude toward who been the vic
Tins shells balls crossing the nterna tionai
boundary line. They that they are entitled to
protection gunfire of the Mexicans and that
if they are damaged it duty Of the state de-
partnent to right their wrongs and to do it
promptly and efficiently And this they assert has
not been done 1t is their contention that our gov
eminent has failed to do its duty when 1t has not
protected them from such injury and that there Is
neither reason justice the attitude of the state
department in refusing to press their claims
Meanwhile the state department answers that II
has trying follow those lines that would best
promote the interests of all concerned 1t points Out
that the Mexican government has created emanuel
through which these claims be brought up, aoJa-
dictated, settled. This is in the shape OF consular
investigations. For instance the Mexican consul e'
Ell Paso is empowered investigate the claims ero~-
ing out of the damage inflicted in FL Paso by uie
guns of the contending forces. His recommendations
win be taken guide for payment by the Meaeah
government
The department contends that it was not for II
refuse recognize the methods OF satsIaeuoh
vided by the Mexican government but Simply % Sso
that justice is done So long as the metnoo CHOSEN
by the Mexican works. 1t commended there was 20
reason for other methods to be invoked out that 4.
voula have invoked such other methods as might
have been necessary had the plan adopted by the
Mexicans failed afford adequate relief
This contention has been answered by the senators
from the states bordering the frontier with the
statement that 1t scarcely be expected that the
Mexican consuls having in mind the bad financial
of fhafr nv n
Stunning responsibility for damages inflicted by rebel
troops be over-lberal with the American citi-
zens living this side of the Rio Grande Senator
Fall for instance. comedies that it is the duty OF
those Americans who live in Mexico and have sus-
tanned injuries there to exhaust their remeoies N
that country before appealing to washington. Hut
it is commended the people injured on the Amer
lean side have entirely different status SO long
they have stayed at home and there have foio"ea
the pursuits Of good citizens is for the government
at Washington protect them and not for them 70
protect themselves. their contention that the
state department has erred
Congress finally has accepted their view OF Il
and has provided that the assessment Of damages
shall be made by American army officers. and that
the washington government viii undertake
that restitution made, 1t is to explained that
the department feels that the Mexican situation
is a dangerous one and that 1t needs to be handled
with the utmost If We to avert complications
that might prove the seriousness. 1t
pies much position that President Mckinley occ
pied before the Spansh-American war; seeking to
avert any incident that might inflame public opinion
at home or stir up trouble in Mexico.
Meanwhile incidents have happened from time 70
time that might. under other conditions provoke
ternaional trouble The government at washington
permitted Americans in Mexico import arms cor
self-defense. These were taken from them by the
revolutionists with the declaration that since the
United States has refused to allow them to import
munitions from across the Rio Grande that is
their only chance TO get them. They the
Madero revolutonsts were permitted to get all the
arms and ammunition they needed but that the
people denied the right that was granted
the former rsvolutionists.
Likewise Americans have been treated so bra-
tally in cases that there is probably ground
the assertion that such treatment
for the purpose of forcing Intervention.
instance a prominent American colonisfs wife fell
and died Her relatives in New Mexico notified
and made the trip an automobile At the interna-
tional boundary line they told by Mexican
consul that they did not need passport When they
arrived at their destination the whose wife had
died was torn from the death chamber and taken out
and hanged by Mexican soldiers for permitting
relatives to his house without a passport
Perhaps the people hardest hit by the revolution
have been the Mormons President Diaz always
anxious get many farmers into Mexico as posi-
ble-farmers who would break up big haciendos into
small farms and till them after the American
Dozens of Mormon settlements established
many sections of Mexico. Travelling along the Vera
Cruz and Isthnus railway broad prairies
with here and there settlements Mormon farmers
men who have transformed into wealth pro-
ducing plantations The has been true in north
ern Mexico. These people went down there. taking
their all with them. and establishing farming dis
Gus sections in Iowa Illinois None of the things
one sees in those wanting tell the
thrift and prosperity in some of the towns
threestory school buildings, built according 10
the in the United States. Their schools
had as extensive study and good teach
ers as those in this country.