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HEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA. (5A„ SUNDAY, AUGUST 3, 101.1.
10 HALT MEXICAN WAR
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President Has Taken the First Step,
It Is Reported, for Diplomatic Ar
rangement in Which United States
Troops Will Guard Americans.
WASHINGTON, Aug 2.—Presi
dent Wilson Is believed to-night to
ha,ve taken the first step toward di
plomatic Intervention in Mexico.
Precise details of the plans are
Withheld, but it is virtually certain
that it contemplates the tender of the
good offices of the United States
bring about a truce or armistice
* pending final settlement of the civil
war.
By this plan the American army
and navy are'to be utilized to safe
guard American lives.
Huerta Heeds U. S. Demand.
Huerta has heeded the peremptory
demand of the United States for the
\, Immediate trial of the persons who
shot Charles B. Dixon, Jr., United
States Immigration Inspector, at
Juarez, and has ordered the case to
proceed expeditiously.
Huerta has also telegraphed to the
fe emor of Chihuahua immediate
ly to release Charles Bissel, Bernard
McDonald and Bissel’s chauffeur, who
are held by the Federals under sen
tence of death at Chihuahua.
Not only did Huerta inform Nelson
O’Shaughnessy, American Charge
d’Affaires at Mexico City, of these
facts, but he feent to the State De
partment an absolute disavowal of
the Dixon shooting coupled with the
most fulsome protestations of regard
for the American Government.
He regrets “very much that the
American Government should as
cribe to the influence of the Mexican
Government any action which might
be construed as antagonistic to Amer
icans during his occupancy of the
executive authority.”
Huerta assures the State Depart
ment “that, no injustice or violence
shall be done to Americans with his
cognizance while he is in his present
position.’
The Huerta statement added:
“The Mexican Consul at El Paso
has informed the Mexican Foreign
Office that the matter of the shoot
ing of Dixon has been satisfactorily
arranged. It is stated that the Gov
ernment at Mexico City seems most
desirous of meeting the desires of
the United States in every way pos
sible.”
House Inquiry Asked. ^
Representative Stephens, of T#xas,
has introduced a resolution pro-
V viding for a joint Senate and House
committee to investigate Mexican
conditions, report on outrages to
which Americans have been subject
ed, the prospects for establishment of
a stable government in Mexico, and
recommendations for a fixed Ameri
can policy toward Mexico. He be
lieves peace, if brought about, wiL
be only temporary.
In the Senate Senator Sheppard of
Texas' introduced a resolution looking
to tho possible recognition of the,
Mexican revolutionists as belligerents
The resolution requests the Foreign
Relations Committee to advise the
Senate whether, in its opinion, this
nation should recognize the belliger
ency of the revolutionists in Mexico
and accord them the proper interna
tional status to which they are enti
tled.
The State Department to-day made
the extraordinary announcement that
Dr. Gaza Aldapo, who is soon to be
Secretary of Foreign Affairs for Mex
ico, “has spent much time in the Unit
ed States and is reported as in sym
pathy with American institutions.”
Mexico’s Sudden Change.
It is not known definitely to what
the lightning changes are due in the
Mexico situation. bu f it is beileved by
many officials it was the prompt and
effective action of Brigadier General
Bliss, coupled with the dispatch of the
additional vessel, the Wheeling, to
Mexican waters which gave Huerta tc
understand he must act promptly Ir,
dealing with Americans and American
affairs.
The United States has no intention
of withdrawing the Wheeling from
the East Coast of Mexico. While there
is no further use for her at Frontera,
she was ordered to-day to proceed to
Progresro and Campeche and to re
main on duty subject to the orders of
Rear Admiral Fletcher at Vera Cruz.
In tha meantime the White House
and the State Department will en
deavor to prevent discussion of Mex
ico in Congress, certainly up to the
national election, October 26.
Bryan Keeps Silent.
Secretary Bryan was not disposed
to-day to discuss the report that Am
bassador Wilson has demanded ac
ceptance of his immediate resignation
or accept his policies ap to Mexico.
The report was brought to Secre
tary Bryan’s attention when it was
stated that owing to the activity of
Representative Smith of Texas and
certain Mexican railway officials, the
Administration is about to decapitate
Consul Edwards at Juarez.
It is alleged he has been sending out
inaccurate information, has been too
friendly with the rebels and has out
lived his usefulness.
Powers Are Amazed by
U. S. Mexican Policy
By FREDERICK U PHAM ADAMS.
_ NEW YORK, Aug. 2.—The policy of
the United States toward Mexico in
recent years has earned for us the
deserved contempt of all Latin-Amer
ica. Our succession of administra
tive and diplomatic blunders has been
watched with amazed interest by
Great Britain, Germany and other
great world powers.
A considerable portion of the press
and the public gasped with indignant
surprise when it was semi-officially
announced that certain of these pow
ers had reminded the United States
of its obligation to enforce the Mon
roe Doctrine or to abandon iy
It is a lamentable fact that the
United 3tates has not progressed far
enough on its path as a world power
to realize th.e propriety and Justice of
anticipating the inevitable results of
well-known conditions. We do not
act because it is logical and right that
we should act, but, on the contrary,
because our indecision and diplomatic
I, cowardice eventually corners us into
a position w r here we are forced to act
Spain Forced Nation’s Hand.
Why did we go to war with Spain?
W'as it because Spain was oppressing
and slaughtering the Cubans? Was
* jt because of our Instincts of hu
manity? Was it because of a feeling
of sympathy for “the under dog?”
Was it because the lives and proper
ty of thousands of Americans were
imperiled in the semi-savage war
fare between the relentless Weyler
and the Cuban revolutionists? No.
Any one of these considerations
should have been enough to interfere
by force of arms and stop a strug
gle which was a disgrace to civiliza
tion. But we closed our eyes and
stopped cur ears and let the sickening
carnage go on for years, most at our
doors.
Why did we finally “interfere” 1n
Cuba? Because of the blowing up of
-the Maine. That aroused our flaming
anger and we proceeded to rescue Cu
ba from anarchy, not because it was
our duty, not because it was the Just
and logical step to take, but because
we were mad.
We did'mot know who destroyed the
Maihe and sacrificed the lives of its
officers and men, and we do not know
now, but that the tragedy that shock-
ed the American public into a realiza
tion of the fact that something was
wrong in Cuba and a wave of frenzy
forced the Government to take, just
the step which it should have taken
. long before.
In the last two years more Ameri-
cans have been foully murdered in
.
the Maine They have been killed
singly or in small groups in sections
remote from communication. They
were not participants in any of the
numberless “jrqvaluUo&s” which have
been Waged for plunder from one end
of Mexico to the other.
They were ranchmen, cowboys,
miners, engineers, railroad men and
of other honest occupations. Most of
them were killed while trying to de
fend their lives and their property.
Consuls Report Outrages.
Day by day in all the awful months
which have passed in Mexico the va
rious consular representatives of the
United States have forwarded to Am
bassador Wilson the reports of out
rages against our citizens and have
furnished him with the names of the
dead as far as known.
Day by day Ambassador Wilson has
forwarded to Washington cabled or
written reports of the loss of Ameri
can life qjid the destruction of Amer
ican property. Week after week Am
bassador Wilson presented to Presi
dent Madero, and later to Huerta,
claims for the redress of these out
rages. They did nothing. Washing
ton did practically nothing to enforce
Mexican attention to these just
claims.
Madero was President of Mexico,
and the usual crop of murder and pil
lage prevailed from the Rio Grande to
Guatemala.
It was given out at the White House
when President Taft ordered thou
sands of United States troops massed
along the borders of the Rio Grande
that this disposal of troops had no
connection with Mexican affairs, but
was peaceful army maneuvers.
This statement was a conventional
diplomatic tw isting of the facts. There
was a brief subsidence of outrages
against Americans in Mexico, but it
soon became apparent to all of the
warring factions that the United
States was bluffing, and they pro
ceeded with their work of pillage and
murder, regardless of the American
feroops massed along the border.
Swiss Hotels Refuse
English Bank Checks
Number of Swindles Has Caused
Bonifaces to Insist on American
Method of Paying Bills.
Special Cable to The American.
GENEVA, Aug. 2.—Owing to a
large number of recent swindles, the
Swiss hotels now refuse to accept
English checks in payment of hotel
bills. Heretofore English checks have
passed in Switzerland at their face
value, no exchange on them being
charged. A clever band of swindlers
have made u**e of this fact and have
passed forged checks to the extent of
several thousand dolls ra.
The best method for tourists to use
in monetary transactions in Switzer
land, say the hotelkeepers, is the one
used by most Americans, the express
money order and tourist agency notes,
as these are accepted as cash by the
hotel proprietors.
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82-84 North Broad Street, Atlanta
August Piano and Player-Piano Sale
BEGINS TO-MORROW (MONDAY) MORNING
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New Upright Pianos-
—Wareroom Samples-
—Rebuilt Uprights
Conover Upright
. No.
135578
... was
$425.00; Sale
Price
$360.00
Conover Upright
.No.
145977
... was
450.00; Sale
Price
370.00
Conover Upright
.No.
14297!*
... was
500.00; Sale
Price
430.00
Conover Upright
. No.
78700
... was
450.00; Sale
Price
250.00
Cable Upright
. .No.
132135
... was
375.00; Sale
Price
325.00
Cable Upright
. .No.
132560
... was
375.00; Sale
Price
335.00
Kingsbury Upright ...
.No.
140716
... was
325.00; Sale
Price
250.00
Kingsbury Upright ...
.No.
150850
... was
325.00; Sale
Price
275.00
Kingsbury Upright ...
150894
... was
325.00; Sale
Price
265.00
Kingsbury Upright ....
.No.
153859
... Was
325.00; Sale
Price
275.00
Kingsbury Upright ....
.No.
152638
... was
350.00; Sale
Price
280.00
Kingsbury Upright ...
.No.
127901
... was
350.00; Sale
Price
225.00
Kingsbury Upright ....
.No.
12594
... was
350.00; Sale
Price
135.00
Wellington Upright ...
. No.
58232
... was
300.00; Sale
Price
175.00
Wellington Upright ...
.No.
136107
... was
300.00; Sale
Price
240.00
Wellington Upright ...
.No.
136653
... was
300.00; Sale
Price
245.00
Wellington Upright ...
.No.
150142
... was
300.00; Sale
Price
235.00
Wellington Upright ...
.No.
152012
... was
270.00; Sale
Price
220.00
Wellington Upright ...
.No.
152254
... was
300.00; Sale
Price
260.00
Wellington Upright ...
. No.
154643
... was
300.00; Sale
Price
225.00
Schulenberg Upright ..
. No.
105312
... was
350.06; Sale
Price
225.00
Schulenberg Upright ..
. No.
107583
... was
350.00; Sale
Price
225.00
Schulenberg Upright ..
.No.
107632
... was
350.00; Sale
Price
255.00
Schulenberg Upright . .
. No.
133302
... was
350.00; Sale
Price
270.00
Estey Upright (oak) .
... new
400.00; Sale
Price
160.00
Walworth Upright ....
... new
300.00; Sale
Price
140.00
Schubert Upright ....
...new
350.00: Sale
Price
135.00
Schubert Upright
...new
350.00; Sale
Price
165.00
Clough & Warren Upright ..
... new
300.00; Sale
Price
180.00
New England Upright
... new
300.00; Sale
Price
100.00
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found every day in the vear at
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UPRIGHT PIANOS.
Mason & Hamlin $550 to $750
Conover $425 to $550
Cable $375 <& $400
Kingsbury $300 to $376
Wellington $250 to $300
Two other cheaper makes.
GRAND PIANOS.
Mason & Hamlin $850 to $1,600
Conover $750 to $1,000
Cable. $600
PLAYER PIANOS,
Conover
CAROLA INNER PLAYERS,
$900 to $1,300
Cable
CAROLA INNER PLAYERS $800.
Kingsbury
CAROLA INNER PLAYERS $725.
Euphona
Player-Pianos $475 and $600
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Atlanta
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