WILL DIAZ RESIGN?

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 11111, 8 May 1911, Page 5

WILL DIAZ RESIGN?

DEFINITE STATEMENT SOUGHT. AMERICAN INTERVENTION PREDICTED. By TeloEraDh—Press Association-Oopyrieht (Rec. May 7, 5.5 p.m.) Mexico City, May 6. It is untrue that there is a likelihood of a rovolt in this city. President Diaz is understood to be willing to resign when order is restored. The rebels have decided to attack Juarez on Saturday and Sunday, if no reply is received from President Diaz whether he will resign. INVASION BY AMERICA. A CONGRESSMAN'S PROPHECY. Washington, May 5. Speaking ia the House of Representatives, Mr. Benjamin K. Focht, a Pennsylvania Republican, predicted the early invasion of Mexico .by the. United States. America, he said, wanted Empire, and would follow the lure of gold and the call of adventure. INSURGENT LEADER'S APPEAL. Mexico City, May s'. General Madero, the insurgent leader, has appealed, through the peacp envoys, to President Diaz to publish assurances, given by him privately, that he will resign. FOREIGN RESIDENTS ARMING. Mexico City, May 5. Believing that Mexico City may be besieged, foreign residents aro arming for their own protection. They may offer their services to the Government in a crisis. THE ARMISTICE ENDED. (Rec. May 8, 0.23 a.m.) New York, May 7. General Madero confirms the report that the armistice with President Diaz's forces has ended. Nothing definite is known as to President Diaz's retirement. THE F.RUITS OF VICTORY, WHO SHALL ENJOY THEiAI? Dr. Vasyuez Gomez, head of the confidential agency of the, Mexican revolutionaries at Washington, last month issued a statement criticising ■' President Diaz's promise of reforms in Mexico. His statement in part follows:— "General Diaz's message to Congress is very interesting because- at the bottom it admits that the revolution is a just one, and has for its object tho bettering of tho political and social conditions iu Mexico. For this reason, I am moro than ever firmly convinced that the revolutionary party shortly will triumph. The message admits that the country must not be governed indefinitely by the same group of men, and, as General Diaz has been in power for thirty-four years, the revolutionists;will stand for him no longer. "Tlie message confesses that the principle of no 'rg-electipn* of public officers elected by popular vote merits its heartiest support.' Next, General Diaz says that in order to avoid long tenure of office of certain public offices it is indispensablo to revise the electoral laws, so as to insure electoral activity of all citizens capable of voting. "Finally, General Diaz admits that the administration of justice is not good, nj"' is tho responsibility of public officers q fective, and for thu purpose,of remedjjli. this state of affairs ho'tiroposes to' initi. ate an investigation of these conditions. This means that' the revolutionists are right, inasmuch as the cause of tho revolution" hns, been diie to a hunger and thirst for justice. "When public opinion first, felt tho necessity for theso reforms, every legal and peaceful- means that could lw employed wero used by the people in their efforts to obtain them; but the Government of General Diaz treated all such efforts with disdain; and, when recourse was had to.the press in support of these endeavours, the Government employed its power in suspending the newspapers, closing their plants and imprisoning all those concerned ii; the exposures. Revolt the Final Recourss. < "Then came the revolution as the final recourse, to which all oppressed peoples have to resort, and in spito of the difficulties encountered in tho beginning, it exists to-day throughout tho cntiro conntry: an actunl national insurrection. "General Diaz makes two important confessions: First, that these reforms are supported by tho thinking men throughout tho. country, and second, more important still, that tho Government, despite its-efforts, has not been able to suppress the revolution. In conclusion: The demands of the revolutionists are just, they are supported by public opinion in Mexico, and General Dioz has endorsed them.. "Now, then, who should put these tcforms into effect? Should it be the present regime, which has been opposed to them for moi-p than thirty years? Would they bo carrier! out in Rood faith, considering that the Diaz Government has delayed until the people have risen in arms? "There is no room for doubt but that the revolutionary party alone is entirely cognisant of the necessities of tho people, and is the party which can and should carry nut these Teforms. Otherwise it would be equivalent to voluntarily delivering into the hands of the enemy all the benefits of the triumph and reducing the country to a worse condition than formerly."