Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-11-11

thrown q line OF 10000 or more NIL
litiamen, border guards. whose only
duty will be the defending Of the
American border towns, the preven-
ton Of raids and smuggling and the
protection Of the various bases.
There will not be much attempted
in the way Of smuggling The coun-
try Is tapped only by about five rail-
roads and war supplies are manufac-
tured only by limited number of
concerns in the country. The manu-
featuring concern which will place its
profits above its patriotism will soon
learn something about emergency
methods, besides which they will be
working over time anyway. The rail-
roads will simply not carry the freight
and that practically ends any chance
Of interior Mexico fighting on any,
thing more deadly than bows and ar
rows.
Rough Riders to Front.
The United States army, not the
militia, aided by irregular forces COM
posed Of men with special knowledge
OF the kind Of fighting there will
do the first heavy work in the in
tervention. An important organiza-
tipn in this connection will be the
First volunteer cavalry. familiar as
the Rough Riders. and their COM
mander will be their first lieutenant
colonel, Theodore Roosevelt. The
Rough Riders have preserved a
veteran Organization since 1898. Two
years ago when its members, most
of whom live along the border. re-
allied that some time the United
States would have to go over the
line, they laid their plans. A tenta-
tive organization which can be stretch
ed from a regiment to q brigade was
laid out and at the first call to arms
its recruiting offices will be opened
for men able to speak the English
language, with a knowledge Of the
country and its people, to say nothing
of an entire willingness and ability to
fight. Similar organizations will spring
up all along the border and they will
be most valuable as scouts and guides,
although the regular army today
knows exactly where 1t Is going, and
what it is to try and do when 1t gets
there. '.'
The plans of the United States are
so we'll forecast that Mexican Fed
erals themselves discuss them. They
have long since stopped expressing
possibility or probability in the in
vasion as they call 1t, and discuss 1t
as an assured fact. It was agreed by
Federal officers at luncheon In Ju-
arez on the Sunday before election,
that the United States warships will
straightway blockade and capture
Tampico, Vera Cruz, Campeche and
some minor ports on the east coast
II is agreed that there will be no
fight. On the west coast they will
promptly take Guaymas, Manzanillo,
Culican and other important ports.
There may be show Of resistance,
but no real opposition.
Invade Five States.
=. transports will follow ships and at
ter the regular army has settled the
towns, the militia will be installed on
garrison duty. The land invasions
will be made through the five north
ernmost Mexican states-Tamaulipas,
Nuevo Leon, Cohuila, Chihuahua and
Sonora. The United States troops
will advance to the capitals Of those
states, take them and then the prin-
ctpal cities. The militia as 1t Is work.
ed into shape will be utilized to pro-
tect the line from the base.
The principal movement Will be
through Vera Cruz along the line OF
advance of the Mexican war and the
objective will be Mexico City. This
will be taken, and as soon as the 9TH
er larger cities of the country are cap
tured the second step of the campaign
will be taken. The main army for the
capital may be 10000. Ten thousand
men will suffice for the other work.
Statesmen with no special knowl-
edge of the subject have dwelt feel
ingly on the enormous cost in life and
of Intervention. Men along the
border admit that the cost will be
great, but they do not agree as to the
cost Of lives. There will be two bat
ties between Vera Cruz and Mexico
City and one from Juarez to Zacate-
cas-, south from Juarez. This Is the
way the campaign pictures itself to
experts who have given it much
study:
The first Vera Cruz encounter will
be little more than a skirmish and
the second will be decisive, ending In
the fall of the capital. Against the
United States will be arrayed the
Joined forces Of Federals and the pres
ent rebels in both instances. Imme-
diately thereafter, acknowledging the
uselessness Of further struggle. the
Mexican merchant. banker, business
man, miner ranchman will counsel
peace and turn to the United States.
The Constitutionalists. declaring
true patriots, will sudden
ly discover that the motives Of the
United States are pure and will join in
pacifying their unhappy country. Je-
sus Carranza, brother Of the Consd-
leader, made little slip OF
the tongue in September when inter-
vention was bruited. MY brother Will
welcome Intervention, which Will
bring about peace" he said. Later.
after he had been told Of it. he de-
MED the statement.
The better class Of Mexican busi-
ness men will then join with the
United States after assurances that
no territorial aggrandizement Is
sought. The big men Of the five nor
thern states will not care so much
about the latter after they have swal-
lowed national pride. So far as the
great host of foreign Inhabitants
of about $1,50O,0OO,-
900 in the richest mines Of the world,
in ranches, in cast lumber operations,