Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-01-13
CATHOLICS REVOLT
AGAINST MEXICO
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nounces, numerous other disturbances
are occurring throughout the country.
Many of these rumors cannot be veri-
fled.
The government asserts that not
more than 1000 revolutionists are in
the field in all Mexico, including rebel
Yaqui Indians in the state of Sonora.
The government makes the first direct
statement that the intellectual leaders
of the revolution are Bishop Pascual
Diaz Of Tobasco, secretary of the
Catholic episcopate, whose where
abouts are not known except by Off
cials since his arrest Monday for de-
portation; and Rene Capistran Garza,
leader of tn esociety for the defense of
religious liberty, which opposed the
governments new religious regulations
last summer Garza is said to have
been proclaimed by his followers as
provisional president of Mexico.
The other members of the episcopate
who were arrested along with Bishop
Diaz continue at liberty upon the con-
dition that they report and register
daily with the ministry of the interior.
This they are doing. They refuse to.
discuss the situation for publication,
but previous to their arrest the episco-
pate has consistently avowed that the
piscopate as such or Catholics in au-
thorized capacity were not conducting
a revolutionary movement. The gov
ernment takes a precisely opposite
stand.
Government officials assert that not
one general or officer of consequence
in the federal army has revolted, cit
ing this as proof that the. revolution
is not serious 1t is admitted in gov
ernment circles, however, that some
former officials of the army are in re-
volt, but at the Nsame time it is as
serted that the army is solidly loyal
to the government and that, therefore,
the federals can easily control the
marauders, whether bandits or revo-
lutionists.
Commenting specifically on President,
Coolidges message, Excelsior pro-
nounces it IAN imperlaiistic document,
worthy a position, among the most
notable of its species.
1t considers President Coolidge's eff
forts to justify tpe recognition Of
Adolfo Diaz, the conservative president
of Nicaragua, 'curiousb" because. it
contends, the fact sshow that Juan
Sacasa only has the constitutional
claim to the Nicaraguan presidency
.'It is futile to attempt to cover with
words such an act of immortality on the
part of the United States government" !
says the paper, land the entire world
is convinced of the fraud and immor-
ality done in this case"
Excelsior goes on to argue: Sup /,
pose President. Coolidge's charges of
Mexican aid to Nicaragua are true;
even more, suppose a Sacasa revolu
ton was organized jim MeYicos and
armed and fitted out by the Mexican
government.
"Sacasa is the constitutional presi-t
dent of Nicaragua, and why would it
be immoral for the Mexican govern
ment actively to aid him, but all right
for the United States government ac-
tivel yto aid Diaz, who is not the con- (
stitutional president of Nicaragua?
Why may the. United States interfere
in Nicaragua and Mexico be prohibited
fro mso doing? n
THE United States alleges defense of
it's canal and the rights of the prop
erty of American citizens as justifica- :
tion for it's intervention. Mexico
might offer for it's reason the great
moral question:, which is to end in
countries of the Spanish race the
abominable custom of establishing
of violence and Illegal +
ity"