MEXICO'S CIVIL WAR.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1501, 25 July 1912, Page 5

MEXICO'S CIVIL WAR.

AMERICAN LOSS OF PRESTIGE. Bj TeleeraDh—Press Association—Oonrrlclit Washington, July 23. Senator Fall, in tho Senate, arraigned tho Government for its failure to secure redress for Americans suffering by the excesses of rebels and the Government of Mexico. Senator Fall alleged that tho Department of State had used its influence in favour of Madcro and the overthrow of Diaz. The United States, lie declared, would bo unable to- recover its loss of prestige in the next fifty jears. MADERO AND THE "GRINGOS." The existing Madcro Government in Mexico succeeded in turning out tho Diaz party (states tho New York correspondent of the "Sydney Morning Herald") simply because, as is now notorious, it had the support, through a clique of reactionary United States senators, headed by Senators Aldrich and Guggenheim, of tho Washington Government. Mr. Taft is always ready to help his staunch friends and it is an open secret that Madero's shipments of arms and ammunition, to his supporters across the border wero never seriously checked, although, for the sake of appearances, there was now and then a seizure and arrost in some unimportant case. But tho Mexicans as ft nation did not really want Madero—as is now plain— nor any other man who was merely an. agent for wliat they call ''gringos"—that is, foreigners; nor can any honest man greatly blame them for it. In the confusion caused by the exit, enforced by Mr. Taft's friends, of the Diaz Government, the many foreign interests in Mexico have suffered greatly, and havo put ill claims, of course, for at least tenfold their actual losses—even .Tapan and China having filed statements of damages sustained by their subjects—and unless tlieso are repudiated or cut down, tho oountry will bo blanketed with an everincreasing liability, for not even tho interest could be met. \ Of courso the United States (continues the correspondent) under the Monroe Doctrine, has warned everybody during tho last GO years that advances made to an American Stato cannot bo enforced 'by seizure of territory, and at all hazards and at any cost tho warning will bo enforced. But among the foreign claims there are some that have a - genuine bash of real hardship and lo«. and what is to bo done about them ? The disorder, too, is worso iu the provinces, which are separated from Greater Mexico by a chain of mountains—tho southern drainage shed of tho river liio Grande. Whether tho river or tho range is tho na-. tul'al dividing line between Mexico and tho United States is a moot question; but since it is this northern territory tliat is the real seat of trouble, the end will probably bo that its independence will be recognised, or that it will be annexed.