The Prescott daily news., 1913-09-17
TELLS CONGRESS MEXICO HAS OBTAINED LOANS SUFFICIENT
 TO PAY ALL CLAIMS.
PATRIOTISM WAS RAMPANT
Lawmakers Hear Plan Not to Renew Permission for Foreign Batteships to Remain, Which Would Bar
 All American Men-of-War.

Mexico City, Sept. 17.-Army ip- crease was the keynote of the me sage which Provisional President Huerta read last night to the Mexi- can congress, which is now in session.
 Huerta said that the Mexican re- public had obtained foreign loans suf- fisient to pay off all the obligations of the government, to place 100000 men in the field and to provide them with 40 new batteries of guns of various sizes, 270,000 rifles and many armored automobiles, all of which he recom- mended.
 Reference to Americans was made frequently in the message. Huerta said that permission for foreign war ships to remain in Mexican waters for six months expires on Oct. 25. He hinted that Mexico probably will not renew that permission. The foreign warships are American vessels. h another place Huerta referred to the fact that Mexico is in difficulties with the government of the United States. but fortunately not with the people"
 Yesterday was Independence day, and the people made merry through out the republic.
 Huerta Rings Liberty Bell. War-ridden as is this republlc, there was no appreciable diminution in the crowd that assembled in the Zocalo to hear Provisional President Victoriano Huerta cry Viva Mexico" and ring the liberty bell. The cere- monv known as the "Grito of Hi- dalgo." ushers in the annual celebra- tion of the Mexican independence day
 It was on Sept. 15, 1910, that the patriot priest. Padre Hidalgo, began the revolution which resulted in the overthrow of the Spanish power in Mexico. During the preceding year many attempts to perfect an organiza- ton that might contend with the Spanish power were made, but they uniformly ended by the execution Of all the leaders Tn the ploJs,
 Hidaleo was one of the leaders of an undiscovered plan, and it was in tended, as in other cases, to perfect organizations before striking the first blow. Word came to Hidalgo that the plot had been discovered and the troops were eve4 then on the way to arrest him.
 Then it was, so the story goes, that Hidalgo rang the bell of his little church in the town of Dolores and summoned the band of patriots about him. A mass was said and he an nounced that the time had come Tor action. About 300 men, poorly armed and with virtually no equipment Of war. responded, and the march on the city of Guanajuato was commenced. As the motley band of insurgents passed the church at Atotonileo, Hi dslgo took the banner illustrating the appearance of the holy virgin at Guadalupe and raised it as the battle flag of the war of independence
 His Army Dispersed.
 But. while Hidalgo and his com patriots were fearless, they were not soldiers nor skilled in the art of war. After achieving wonderful success and with a constantly increasing army. he had reached almost sight of the City of Mexico when the tide turned. His army was dispersed and he fled northward toward Chihuahua, where he and his chief lieutenants were captured They were promptly ' executed and their heads placed on spikes at the four corners of the pris- on as a warning to other revolution- ists. Other leaders arose, and Mex leo continued in a state of unheaval and unrest for 70 years, until the sol ,dier and statesman. Poririo Diaz, was elected to the presidency.
 Thus, briefly, was the beginning Of Mexican independence, and this is the reason that Sept 16 Is celebrated throughout the republic of Mexico.
 The beginning of yesterdays cele- bration was marked with all of the customary enthusiasm, In the great square where their forefathers lifted their eyes to the top of the teacalli to see the throbbing heart that the