The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-09-10
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Washington, Sept. o.--That Presi
dent Taft will call Congress in extri
session by Oct. / to consider whether
the United States shall intervene il
Mexico, was the general opinion
among officers Of the State, War ant
Navy departments today. These of
ficials, whose names cannot be given
We're unanimous in the opinion tha
intervention is inevitable
President Taft would have taker
this step before, but he was fearful
such action would be a signal for {
general massacre of Americans in
Mexico" said a prominent official oI
the State Department.
State, War and Navy Department
officials were emphatic in asserting
that, whatever Taft does regarding
Mexico, he will be actuated solely
by a sense of duty and not politics
One Official said:
In my Judgment President Taft
will not recommend to Congress that
the United States Intervene, but
will send to Congress u special mes
sage detailing conditions in Mexico
and announces that he Will no longer
bear the responsibility of protecting
Americans and maintaining neutral
ity- that Congress will have to as.
sumo that responsibility"
Army officers say campaign
against Mexican guerillas would be
a close parallel to the chase after
Aguinaldo, campaign which could
not be ended in less than two years
and which would have results be
yond accurate prediction.
Reprisal is Threatened.
That American soldiers have been
sent into China, or that American
naval forces now are actively en-
gagged in Nicaragua without authori-
cation of Congress, is not held to he
a precedent for sending troops to
Mexico LII China American mis-
sionaries were beseiged and in dan
ger Of torture and death. In Mica,
raga the rebels had shelled the
American Legation and endangered
the lives Of American citizens by
bombardtng an unforttfed city in
violation of the rules OF international
law No such situation has been re.
ported in Mexico.
Juan Didapp, who claims to repre-
sent the revolutionary factions here,
published a statement that Zapata,
leader of rebel bands in the State
OF Morelos, threatened measures Of
reprisal" !" if the United States were
to intervene, "or the ground that IT
would be impossible for commanding
officers to restrain their soldiers
from doing acts never done before, ="
Representatives of the Madero
government declare there are no
Americans in Morelos to suffer from
zapata's bands, and that Zapatas
forces are distant from the City Of
Mexico.
Capt S. G,IIopkins, who was legal
adviser to the Madero revolution
when 1t overthrow Diaz, likened the
in Mexico to that in the
United States from 1861 to 1865,
when this government was resentful
of prospective interference by Great
Britain and France. The Madero
government, he declared, was amen
able for damages under interna-
tional law for injury to Americans
or their property while disposing of
its own civil war.
Limit of Patience Reached.
In corroboration of their opinions
government officials called attention
to the mission of Ambassador Catero
to Mexico City, bearing verbal
from President Taft to
President Madero "That the limit of
patience of this government has
been reached"
The reports from American Off
cials in Mexico and along the Mexi-
can frontier received at the State
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