The mexican rebellion.

N° 150

AHSRE L-E-936 F. 184

San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco, California

1 de julio de 1908.

The mexican rebellion.

It is Racing Most Violently in the Columns of American Newpapers.

Intelligence from the border States of Mexico confirms the view that the Mexican rebellion is raging more fiercely in the columns of American newspapers than in the sister republic. It was reported on monday that a sanguinary conflict had occurred at Jimenez, but when the telegraphic operator at that place was interrogated he prompltly replied that if the town had been captured, as stated, the rebels had overlooked the telegraph office, a fatal oversight, when all the possibilities of posession of the instrumentality for distributing false information are considered.

Although the Mexican Government is dispatching troops to the scene of the disturbance, there is no reason for discrediting the information given out at the capital that the affair does not even remotely resemble a revolutionary uprising. It is doubtful however, whether the charge that the trouble-makers are bloodthirsty anarchists, who aim at the destruction of society, can be maintained. They are probably men inspired by the idea that Mexico is a downtrodden country because the facilities for disturbance have been lessened through the vigilance of Diaz, who has almost succeded in his effort to reduce the pronunciamento habit to a negligible minimun. There is no question but that these disturbers of Mexican peace have made appeals to the working classes, which may suggest to Latin-Americans the method of anarchists, but that the movement is part of the propaganda of destruction of law and order no cine familiar with the circumstances will believe.

It is gratifying to note that the authorities at Washington are taking the precaution to prevent the unruly elements on the American side of the line helping the disturbers. There is reason to believe that a considerable number of Americans too liberally endowed with the filibustering instinct have been attracted to the neighborhood of the difficulties by the hope of finding something doing. It is highly desirable that their action should not be taken by Mexicans to represent American desires. The people of the United States do not sympathize with objectless turmoil, and will be glad to see a speedy end put to the revolution, which seems to have "died a-bornin."