Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-03-13
COLQU|tT WANTS
TO CROSS BORDER
A BRYAN Citizen Among Those Send
ing the Governor Congratulatory
kilograms.

Austin. Tex, March 13.-"Give me
100 Texas rangers and | can do more
toward keeping law and order in Tex
as than 10000 United States troops"
said Governor Colquitt yesterday And
he made the statement without cast
ing any reflection on the efficiency OF
the United States troops, for as he
explained. Texas rangers are peace
officers and can arrest suspected par
ties at any time. This the United
States troops cannot do"
According to the Governor, 1t is CO.
operation with the Federal govern
ment he desires, not additional regi-
ments of troops on the Texas borders.
The efficiency of these might be in
creased tenfold were the regiments
picketed along the 500 miles or more
of border of Texas. for 600 miles OF
which is fordable and of easy access
to the Mexican marauders. Instead,
the troops are kept in posts where
they in no wise serve as an aid in
preventing the marauding and THEY
ine.
Rioht to Cross the Rio Grande.
Give to Texas rangers or give to
Federal troops the right to cross the
Rio Grande and arrest or capture such
| parties as may take advantage OF the
present conditions existing along the
border for the committing of depreda-
/ tions and the problem will be solved.
II can secure permission from the
/ Mexican government for doing this
! very act. can secure the free eX-
/ preston of Mexican military authori'
ties to pursue bandits and marauders
across the border and capture them.
II is not from that side that ! am pre-
vented in guarding and saving TEXANS
! and Texas property, but from the Fed
eral government at Washington
whose sole reply to my requests nave
been that the matter is one that such
as the Federal authorities can handle.
As to Rangers and Border.
When requested for statement o.
his intentions of increasing the ranger
force the Governor made no SPECIFIC
answer. Only he detailed the advan
tages that would accrue from the in
crease of the force and acknowledge
the necessity for such.
Numerous kilograms of congratu
, lions continue to reach the Governo
from all sources. Among those re
! ceived yesterday were the following
, ]. B. Mulhall of Bryan wired tn
5 Governor yesterday as follows: On
p thousand hearty congratulations vii
. come from Americans in Mexico.
q have lived in that country twenty-fou
4 years and have just come out, and 20
v are the only American citizen of thi
o country whom Mexicans have any re
!. speot for Washington has disgrace
II our country to such an extent that nc
4 a day passes without an insult
/ Americans. The highest honor Mex
|. cans pay to you and Texas has bee
n unfolded to me thousand times
r. the remark that IF Texas won't figf
= us we can lick the United States.
V Citizens OF Fort Bend County re-
i as. according to a telegram receive
" from F. VI. o. Penn, heartily suppol
k the Governors policy of protecting IN
= Texas border. Mr. Penn wired: "Th
y people of Fort Bend County will su
l. port you in your policy of protectin
e the border of Texas. and If 1t is nece
sary Fort Bend County will give
support you every ablebodied ma
that there is in Fort Bend County. :
A telegram signed "W. H. Goldsmil
go and Fifty Others" dated Alvarad
70 Texas. reads: I'VE heartily congrat
70 late your stand taken in the Mexica
ID situation. Texas needs you for Sen
g tor badly"
al How big an army do you need
Nv whip Mexico?" came query fro
! BARLEY, Cal.