Bisbee daily review., 1913-08-10
MR. LIMOS sTRAeE MISSION.


 MISSION.
 Hon. John Lind of Minnesota is |, go to Mexico as the personal repre- sentative of President Wilson. and i. entrusted with most delicate task according to Washington dispatches He is to consult both Provisional President Huerta and the leaders ol the revolt against his authority. with a view to the resignation of office by Huerta. the agreement of the factions upon candidate for the presidency and an election the fairness of which shall be assured in advance. A task fora Matternleh or a Bismarck, ex- claims the St Louis Globe-Democrat. But Mir. Lind. who has served two terms DE Congress and one term as governor of Minnesota, is wholly without diplomatic training or exper- fence. He is unable to speak Spanish fact which need not interfere much in negotiations with either Huerta or Carranza, both of whom car use. English. Negotiations with such lead CTS as zapata, orozco. and others at the heads of small bands of cutthroats and plunderers, are evidently not con templated in Mir. Lind's instructions. The president has never considered these bandit forces and has appeared to look upon the revoIutiorists as oc- cupying a position analogous to that of the Confectionery toward the United States in the eos. That deIusion we believe to. be his fundamental error. The Confectionery was a government in ali the word implies. It had but Cne army, mobile in all Of its parts and commanded by gentlemen sol diers. It held seaports ard custom houses, maintained 2 dozen state gov ernments, had all the machinery of a national government in a national
 
 capital, and was, in every particular. military power
 Tn Mexico the enemies of the Huerta governme,,t do not hold a single seaport The Huerta govern ment controls all of them, and regu- larly imports, and exports through them. In half of the twenty-seven. Mexican states we are informed by an authority that seems to be reliable, there is no more of a state of war. fare than there was in Ohio or New York in the sos. These states include an VI Nht EibdlSl outSs SUCH dS Jd- Iisco. Vera Cruz, Puebla. Oaxaca, and Guanaiato, and the federal district. in cluding the City of Mexico. The states that are more or less troubled by rebellion are TamauIipas, Tabasco, Chihuahua, CoahuiIa Nuevo Leon, Du- rango, Zacatecas. AguascaIientes, Hi- dalgo. Morelos, Sonora, Sinaloa, Co lima and Miehoacan. Less than half dozen towns of more than 10000 in- habitants are in rebel hands. while towns and cities of more than 60OOOO people are in the Undisputed control of the government
 Sending a mining plenipotentiary and envoy extraordinary to propose abdicstion, which would be surrender. to a man in Huerta's military posi- ton. is something as to which we be- lieye even Col. Roosevelt would hes itate. But if the Hon. John Lind could patch up a peace between Huerts and Carranza. what is to be done with Orozco. and what with "a pata. who speaks nothing but Span ssh. which Mir Lind can't speak at all? Tbere may even 'be some reason to fear that both Huerta and Carranza may be included to feel it an affronr to send them a man with the powers of an ambassador who is unable to speak the language of the country. Mir.