Bisbee daily review., 1913-12-21

a relative of the late Charles Dana. founder of the New York Sun.
 MT. Dana has spent the last :ou- year in Mexico City where he was on the stan of The Herald. and as Re view readers will read clearly between the lines, his information Is secured from the official source and assem-. bled in such form as will attract wiGe- spread attention because of the H. luminating and convincing character of the article.
 Mr. Dana arrived in Bisbee last week after an absence of ten years. Leaving Mexico City nearly a north ago, he found when he arrived in Chihuahua that the railroad comm nicaticn with Fl Paso had been c,- stroyed. He spent more than two weeks in that city during it's occu- pancy by the Federa,s under Mercado and Orozco. Upon hearing of their proposed evacuation, Mir. Dana, ac- companied by two mining engInesrs, outftted, crossed the divide, and came north over the Nacozari railroad.
 Notwithstanding the fact that Americans and American interests have suffered grieviousiy at the hands of the various Mexican govern ments during the last two years of strife in the unhappy sister republic to the S3uth. there is very general fleeing among those who have suffered the most, and have been Financially damaged the most, that the Fabian campaign pursued by President VII son. his watch and wait policy, t the best possible stand that could have been taken by tine chief execU.' tive of the United States. His dec!in' nation to recognize the Huerta re. zine is generally recognized as al stroke of diplomatic genius, in strong contrast to the hasty acti-n of seE eral European powers taken hetors fully advised as to the conditions.
 From the large capitalists of the United States who are heavily inter estsd in mining properties 10 tn more modest merchants who have I-| tained a fcotho,d throughout thsI country, frCm the American rancn- eros who have sought g new field for stock in the vast mesas and watered mountain ranges of central and NcrtE' ern Mexico, to the mechanic and aG- tisars from Uncle Samdcm who haN- found lucrative employment in man! great enterprises throughout the Az tee country, there are but few d. senting voices as to the wisdom c! the course being pursued by the. professor from Princeton Of course there are hotheads who argue heat edly that intervention should long ago have taken place. but they arc those who grudgingly admit after ar cument that the governments pol. e. will prove the best ill the lon7 luu.
 The conditions in Mexico city ai the present time are chaotic. Hutrt1 retains much popularity among t., lower classes because Of what tn. pccns call his patriotic stand agains The American usuTper.' But among the moneyed classes, the rich rancE. eros. the great mine owners. ana Mexican capitalists generally ne mas never had much prestige and tn' little which he had is fast disappear. ing. The presence of a constitution al leader other that Zapata in iheI ueighborhood of the national c2pItdl wcuId undoubtedly have caused the retirement of Huerta before tEIs tim". But the character of Zapata. and nis' method of warfare, has made his ee o,,fsition of any additional power a dread to all classes alike in the in mediate neighborhOod of Mexico Cliy'I
 The federals are strongly ln trenched in and about the capital, and to the east as far as Vera Cruz there are troops which afford fairly good protection. To the west, to Msnza' nfiio on the Pacific, the federals have practically complete control, with pos eibly a force of 500 men. well armed and urovisioned. But these are scat tered along over 6 lengthy line ana their powers Of concentration or me Utilization are problem4ticai. duerta has cared for his troops about ms capital with lavish hand to the cost of his northern armies. He das mace great efforts to protect the oil prop critics at Tampico and Tuxpam with more or less success. Should Car ranza and Villa move upon Mexico Citv it is certain that HIeria would have time to bring together a gisrri son of between I5.O00 ara ee-op' oi EOS. :t,v the best eiI-)1 l scidiei 3 tbar Mexico has eyer mastcred
 Ii is not possible that Villa vii move south rom Chihuahua until the refugee army of Meroado and oroze2 has been disposed Of to the east ot Jnarez. It has been mootea qoe9 tion as to the reason for the eVaen. ation of Chihuahua. As a matter os fact. that stronghold of the norm was m longer tenable. The water suppl was Friyfns out and while there seemed to be ample funds, 1t was i'm nossible to longer provision the troops Instead of a retreat to the N-~Ntf-. h~s