The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-09-08
Two Regiments of Cavalry to
Augment the Force Now Pa
trolling the Line Between
This Country and Mexico.
INTERVENTION NOT
BEING CONSIDERED
Resident Will Not Send an
Army Across the Border
Until Every Other Measure
of Protection Fails.

son s,S5U though President Taft will not
chay j intervene in Mexico without the
rl.a ,%H fullest delberatou on step
IL. hat would mean war, his friends de-
A adA Jared tonight that intervention is near
I've 49,
lie Hsf than it has been since the first Amer
eettssstsn troops were rushed to the border
lav, fghteen months ago.
foE q It can be stated on the highest au~
Al /, hority, however, that should the presi-
.-ent decide that intervention is the only
vs. Nourse open to him, he will call con-
KEIress in special session and demand Of
the authority to send the American
e Il. irmy across the border Under no cir
es5 umstances, he has told his friends,
il Iabrould he do an uufriendly act against
y u y Iexico without consulting congress,
0 a. Friends of the president realize that
to tsie would give the order TO invade Mex
1nssssto u,sss only with the greatest reluctance.
th. they are aware it already has been
y charged by senators that the president
uzsb light send the army across the line,
me .lhke himself "war president and
" Gfly on that to bring victory 10 himself
gsas zen md the Republican party in November,
mad eclares Story False.
e. Mr. Taft has said that such state
IL Tsfant is utterly without foundation, and
un@ IS declared to his advisers it would be
dents ard to conceive of president who
n Iniould use his Office to throw the coun.
the -. ~ .L4 ,.,,. L. 80
sistx into war that experts nave pre-
stroa 3cted could not end in less than two
ha "Iears, that would cost millions. that
u0Ifopld mean the sacrifice of thousands
,rcr| lives and ruin for years to come the
NLoDksis of this nation S friend dship with
= y,ele Central and South American repub-
rsss55cs.
men uss The president today authorized Gen
cTuTt al Leonard Wood, chief of staff, u. S.
nns 9tls; ~ " to dispatch two more regiments Of
nunbaiyalry to the Texas border. The reg.
'ns: rrents will be sent from Fort Riley,
opl oe,s a., and Fort d. a. Russell, Wyo So
ThegF as the president was Informed there
Sdss Ep ~ be no immediate need for more
progg oops IN Texas, but conditions along
.tc seSsatat border have grown worse in the
Wing ut few weeks
a sisa me Danger Point.
ens q
ganlnslt is in the southern part of Mexico,
! leGss =, wever, that the president has learned
ere id5 intolerable conditions affecting
fnlsn~- mericaDs. There the Madero govern
,ny us>fnt, according TO the Washiu eton in,
al ~rmation, is utterly unable TO cope
nh the revolutionists and there seems
CC,IlkEbe little prospect that the situation
L,.c ID improve.
,RlHo Fhe president within the last few
- dw<ys has communicated a demand that
!. Tss s'es1dent Madero be more active in the
yesss,s otection Of Americans. He is hopeful
,ssarsd ert this reminder, meant for the ears
the Mexican president and for the
lsnro xican foreign office as well, will be
n vas yu2tful Of results in both southern and
lousss ~ sxlrthern Mexico.
be Hr rhe situation south of the Mexican
've We Bspital is regarded as particularly dan.
Rous TO Americans because the revo-
tInusa nonlsts there apparently have much
cM t1y1f9 Tear Of an American invasion than
me gar brothers In the north.
{ould Mean War.
z0R The only favorable plan for the pro.
- lreE.on OF Americans in the south. Mr.
JEo NEt has been told would be to send
keps TO some gulf port OF Mexico
,msscs me trouble is in the interior and the
,ishlng nQing of troops in a Mexican port
one Iold mean intervention and war
otnsMh Ma Sse Is no such opportunity In the
OF % ks nth Of Mexico to display troops in
9yo 9so.r .osFee aud thereby insist on respect OF
aey 1sss spt United Statcts as there has been
III y its eng the Texas frontier,
ther n 2ne solution of the problem has been
.bouss iim, Mr.. Taft is still hopeful. how
i III ef- the President Madero will improve
10 W9itlous SO that such a step will not