Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-05-06
Civil !! I STRIFE ! RE !. !. j.
down IN N. MEXICO
Representatives Of American
Investors Might Welcome
Intervention =
EmIssary Gives Reasons for
Uprising Against the Next.
can Government

WASHINGTON, D. c., May 6.-B
) what seems to be more than a mer
accident, Washington is the scene o
the latest act in the great drama play
ing below the southern border of til,
United States-an act in the revolution
in Mexico The conflicting interest:
have descended Upon the capital, tn.
one representing the Madero govern
ment, or, rather, the vast investments Of
American capital, and the other the rev.
olutionists. The former is inclined tc
think that Intervention in some form
or other would be a good thing; and
the latter most vigorously opposes it.
Both interests are pleading their cause
from the vantage ground afforded by
Washington, pleading it not only to
congress and to the administration, but
also to the press.
The reason for this descent seems to
be an uneasy feeling in Mexico that,
despite promises to the contrary, the
United States is getting ready to in
terfere. A member of the house-a
| radical democrats quoted as saying
that this country ought to intervene.
1t lis known that certain military au-
thorities would like to do so. 1t is
pointed out that congress very speed
lily passed law the other day prohibit
ing the sending of arms and ammuni-
ton to such countries as Mexico, and
that not two weeks ago the senate, with
hardly a word of debate, adopted the
Root amendment TO the immigration
bill, which makes it a deportable Of
Tense for aliens to be found taking ad-
vantage of their residence in this coun-
try to plot the violent overthrow of a
government with which this govern
ment is or diplomatic and friendly
terms.
The Revoiutionist Emissary.
The revolutionary emissary now in
Washington is l.. Gutierrez de Lara,
formerly a captain in Madero's army,
and now belligerent opponent of the
Mexican president and his policy-or
lack of policy. De Lara is doing three
things at once; he is advocating his
cause nthe states; he is conducting a
long-distance campaign for his own cleo
ton as federal deputy to the chamber
in Mexico City from Monterey in the
province Of Nuexo Leon; and he is
holding himself ready at moments
call to poin the sharpshooting "irregu-
lars" whose chief occupation seems to
be to skulk from cover to cover and
pick off unwary federals
According to his statement, the Mex
lean revolution now in progress is moth
ing but the logical and necessary carry
ing on of the revolution which swept
.Madero into office. The bottom fact
in Mexico, says Dr.. Lara, is that the
people are landless; that about 400 fed
eral lords own or control the farming
lands of the nation. Oppressed by a
wrong economic system" revolt was
spontaneous, and as long as the system
continues the revolt will continue. The
reason why Madero did not satisfy the
country, he says, was that. although
nearer to the popular demand than
Diaz, yet Madero has not made good.
When elected he promised to nationalize
the land. Instead of taking immediate
steps toward this end, he appointed
what is called in this country a "lame
duck commission" composed of reac-
tionaries held over from Diaz, whose
intention, De Lara charges, is to let the
matter sleep, meanwhile building up the
army and establishing Diazism all over
again.
If we are to believe De Lara, the
news dispatches which portray the rev.
ofution as species OF anarchy, as moth
ing but sporadic otbursts without rule
or reason, do not give the correct story
THE revolution" says De Lara, CON
trolls over half of Mexico. The prov
ince of Chihuahua. in the northern part
of Mexico, is entirely in the hands of
the revolutionists, and we have there a
duly elected governor, a legislature,
courts, police and all the machinery of
civilization. We have also the prov
inces of Sonora, Sinaloa, Topic, part of
Coahuila, Morelos, Oaxaca, Durang,
Zacatecas. part of Jalisco and Aqua Cali
entes. We are thoroughly organized,
and we have funds. We have one other
thing which surely spells victory-we
have spirit which has broken up the
federal spirit and which has put the
common people all over the country
under arms till they get possession of
the land" s.-.>'.
orozeo Recognized ~ Head
Orozco, it is said, is recognized by
the revolutionists as their head and
front In the south General Zapata, an
Indian by birth, leads the movement
In the west it is Genera Uriate.
The idea that Mexicans are not capa-
Bile of self-government is scouted-by De
Lara, who points to the already estab-
lished government, popularity chosen
and popularity endorsed, in the prov
ince of Chihuahua, as an argument to
the contrary. "The peon-tf,e farm Ia
borer," says this leader, becomes diff
ferent man when he throws off his al
legiance to his feudal master and Joins
US. In few days you would not know
him for the same"
What is going to happen within the
next few weeks in Mexico no one, De
Lara says, apparently, can tell. Events
are moving fast. It may be that enough
provinces will have fallen into the hands
Of the revolutionists by July so that the