Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-02-27
is THE WORST YET TO COME?

A concentration Of troops at Cal
weston can have 10 other meaning
than the one officially expressed at
Washington, says the st. Louis Globe
Democrat. The movement, Is made IN
anticipation Of the early coming OF q
new administration to be charged
with the duty the Taft ad ADMINISTRATION
Will re%linquish In little more than a
week. IT Is a part Of the evident pol
icy Of Mr.. Tart In leaving all mat
tiers Of purely executive work in as
complete a state az possible for his
successor TO take up. When this is
understood the act requires q larger
Significance than 1t could have with
out such IN understanding. For It
expresses the conviction that, in spite
Of assertions made by the Huerta gov
eminent in Mexico OF its ability to
protect foreign residents OF that coun-
try, their danger not only remains,
but grows. his increase in the arm
cd power OF the United States near
Mexican borders must have been
made in view OF an increasing posi-
bllity OF their employment at an early
date. That date is not likely to be
reached before the 4th of March, but
]. must have been regarded at Wash
ington as being so imminent as to
justify a larger PREPARATION.
--latest Mexican advices fully con-
firm this view. While the killing Of
Francisco Madero and Vice President
SuareZ, whether premeditated, acct
dental or a result OF the fortune OF
war, offers no a in itself for in
Prevention, its effect must be to fur.
ther infiame Mexican passion and hat
red. As It will not "be believed any
where, and particularly not in Mexico,
to have been undersigned, it's influ.
ence In that country will be TO
strentthen the conviction that the
Huerta regime Is a despotis.n bent
upon every mar believed or known
to be out of sympathy with it. Such
a conviction will lead to one of two
things; ether oppositiolf will be dis
i%ntegrated and weakened by such tao
tics, as it was when they were en-
ployed by Porfirio Diaz, or it will be
strengthened and enraged to a point
where, realizing that what calls itself
Mexican government is nothing more
than a reign Of lawlessness and bru.
tally, 1t will abandon itself to excess
cs In reprisals Upon it's enemies and
murderous deprcdations upon neu.
trails. Either a complete anarchy or
a subsistence of disorder will result
from these acts. If Huerta has cal
culated upon terrorism as a force for
the rentoration Of peace, it is to be
hoped, for the sake Of foreign resi-
dents OF Mexico, that he has c%alculat.
ed we'll. If he has made a mistake
in calculation, it cannot be long until
intervention will be Imperative.
1t will he argued, by such as favor
immediate Intervention. that the kill
ing of Madero and Suarez without
trial and conviction proves a present
condition OF lawlessness, making de.
lay dangerous. Ent that is an tx.
IRENE view. 1t was in removing the
prisoners preparatory to their trial
that they were shot. The stage may
have been set. The actors may have
been well trained in their parts. Such
things have often been done In Latin.
American countries. But we can a.
sumo nothing. Even If some. of the
men Of the guard we're killed, in a
land where life is held so cheap, the
fact would not be conclusive that the
attack was unexpected by the ruling
powers. But the one fact OF record
that trials had been ordered must
outweigh, SO far as ~interpOsition is
concerned, the beaver weight of cir.
%cumstantial and presumptive evil
dence. We may think what we will,
but we may not ourselves become the
violators Of International law by in.
tervening until the point is reached
where Intervention will not be a VIC
lation.
LIE Baron 81. Colt, the new United
States senator from, Rhode Island, Is
s%ixty-sayen years old. He was born in
Dedham, Mass, and comes from old
Puritan stock. He was at Yale during
the latter part o fthe civil war and
graduated in the class of '68. He
studied law at Columbia college after
leaving Yale, and then acted on the
advice OF Horace Greeley and went
west. For two years he practiced law
In Chicago. Then he returned east
and settled in Bristol, r. l., which
place has since been his home. He
was appointed a Judge Of the United
States district court In 1881 and re-
manned on the Federal bench until his