The Marlborough Express. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 1911. MEXICO AND THE UNITED STATES.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLV, Issue 65, 17 March 1911, Page 4

The Marlborough Express. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 1911. MEXICO AND THE UNITED STATES.

The formal official announcement made at Washington that the United States Government "does not contemplate intervention in Mexico at any time," and promising that no more troops , shall be mobilised is probably the result of a quiet diplomatic agreement with President Diaz, who has been accused of # unduly favoring American enterprises in Mexico. Sir Frederick Holditch, who recently returned to London from Mexico, and is an admitted authority on Mexican affairs, has stated that there is a very widespread antiAmerican feeling amongst the Mexicans, and1 it is quite possible that the rumored intention of the United States to . intervene has actively fanned this 'flame of dislike of "los, Americanos"—a dislike which is a sentiment of no merely recent growth, bstt dates back to the 'forties of the last century, when Texas separated Loin Mexico, and after a brief period c. independence became part of the United States. It is notorious that the Texan revolution against Mexico was engineered and liberally financed by Americans, and lo this day Mexican popular resentment remains as keen as ever over what was deemed a piece of Yankee piracy. The Washington declaration of non-interven-tion is intended to serve the purposes of Diaz, whose firm though autocratic administration America does not desire to see replaced by political chaos. It is doubtful, however, whether it will materially check the progress of the revolution now proceeding in -various provinces. The insurrection continues to spread, and as it is more and more affecting the northern provinces, it is quite possible that before many weeks have passed the Washington policy of nonintervention will have to be abandoned. Already there is serious law-, lessness in Southern California and on the Texan frontier,, and the United States may yet have to step in to restore" order in the border disA tricts. According to a late cablegram, "developments are expected showing a Japanese faetoi'7 in the struggle." This, at first sight, may seem a somewhat cryptic announcement', for what connection, it may be asked, has far-away Japan with internecine disorder in Mexico? An is probably to be found in the fact that since the adoption of. an Asiatic Exclusion policy by California, huge numbers of Japanese have poured into Southern California and other of the northern, provinces of Mexico, and that this large Japanese population may ultimately prove a very dangerous factor in the Mexican political situation. When we remember that already there are over 70,000 Japanese in Hawaii, most of them men who served in the RussoJapanese War, and that consequently, in case of any dispute between America and Japan, Hawaii would practically he at the mercy of these Asiatics, it is not difficult to understand that both Mexico and the United States. should view with apprehension ihe flooding of Southern California by Japanese immigrants. To the 'former, the presence of a large Japanese population must naturally be disturbing, for in the event of any general Mexican revolution their presence would cause considerable anxiety, as offering an opportunity for Japan actively to intervene and force a weak State, sifch as Mexico is, to grant her territory for the settlement of her surplus population. The United States could not very well tolerate any Japanese annexation or recognised settlement on her borders, and it is not difficult to foresee that a, casus belli might very quickly arise. As to the future, much depends upon the" capacity of the, Mexican Government to suppress the insurrection. The President's action in placing the disaffected districts under martial law, which practically means, _if such can be affected, the extermination of the malcontents, appears to have increased rather than diminished the revolutionary spirit, for we are told that the insurrection is spreading, and that several towns in Northern Mexico are beTn'- besieged. Both at the Mexican capital and at Washington there must necessarily be grave anxiety as to the final outcome of the revolt against Diaz's rule. ' ' *