Arizona republican., 1912-09-23
INTERVENTION
 NOW WELCOME
Changing Sentiment in Mex leo Regarding Outside Aid in the Settlement of Their Difficulties End of Which Is Not FOreSeen

MEXICO CITY. Sept 22.-Six months ago residents of MeXicos capi- tai were afraid there would be inter vention. Today a fair part of these same people are afraid there will not be When the United States is going to take a hand in Mexico's troubles forms the basis for half the conversa- tion wherever foreigners are gathered When Pascual OrOzco stepped at the head of his rebel army man who dared suggest that a foreign army would some day be required to restore order was made to feel uncomfortable by the replies. But the attitude of most foreigners has changed and it is not difficult to find scores of MeXicans who agree that their government is almost helpless
 President Madero began his cam paien against the rebels on the old premise that we have the men and we have the money" assuming there. fore that the government was bound to win. The government has not lost and it may win, but it is by no means certain that it has enough men and 1t is certain that money is scarce.
 The rebel army of the north due largely to the difficulties encountered in getting ammunition, has been forced to divide inti light columns but 1t IS still in existence and worrying the fed eral army more. perhaps, than it did when it was massed along the MeM- can Central railway north and south in Chihuahua.
 In the south the Zapatistas and Sal gadistas and various other groups are more formidable than they were when Madero went into office almost year ago. Instead of suppressing the rebel lion the government has permitted 1t to expand. Instead of life and prop ertv of non-combatants being made more safe they have been made more precarious and slowly the rebels ap- pear to be losing that respect they once had for foreigners and their prop erty.
 An army much larger than that now in the field might make more progress in restoring order but MeXicans have not crowded the recruiting offices and companies of volunteers have in a few eases been made up of prisoners, some of whom chose military service as substitute for prison life and some of whom were deliberately forced into the army Life in tn army, even to crush a rebellion, has not appealed to the average Mexican whose attitude towards the difficulties of the admin istration is wholly passive.
 If the government can secure the money it is possible the struggle may be prolonged. It is costing something like 35O0. 900 pesos (S1, ,000) month to continue the war. Two loans have been made and it is reported an effort is being made to secure another. me nations income has been materially reduced ImportatiOns have fallen OH 10 a marked degree and ordinary busl- ness throughout the republic is at law ebb.
 Pride and love of country force al most all Mexicans to resent the sug- gestion of intervention but hundreds can be found who privately will adml that there is small chance for his gov ernment to put an end to the rebellion A large part of these probably would fight should a foreign army enter Mex ico but even then it is doubtful | there would not be a great passive ele ment. content to denOunce the foreigr foe but without carrying gun.
 Seventy-five per cent, at least, o the Americans in the smaller cities an' towns of the republic have left tn country and from the capital the exc dus totals possibly half the norma population of the American colony.
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