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II. S. ACCEPTS Warship Checks Rioting by Threatening to Land Marines. I Three Pan-American Countries Try to Bring A boat Settlement Throagh the Elimination of Huer- -V . V r - ' ta—Government Hopes “for Best Results Within Short Time". Pan-American diplomacy Saturday night mad.e its first attempt to solve the Mexican crisis by peaceful nego tiation. The United States govern ment accepted from Argentine, Brazil and Chile a formal offer to act as Intermediaries in the present situa tion, but reservedly pointed out that an act of aggression by the military forces, or hostile demonstrations to wards Americans, might upset hopes of immediate peace. Coincidentally with the acceptance of the mediation offer, administration officials announced there would be no cessation of preparations by the army and navy for future emergen cies, and no orders would be issued to the naval forces at Vera Cruz or the ships at sea, changing original plans. No further steps, however, to secure reparation for the indignities which gave rise to the present sit- uation will be attempted while the ef fort is being made to bring about a settlement through diplomacy. Although the offer made by the three South American countries did not reveal their plans, it was learned that they contemplate a broad settle ment of the Mexican problem through the elimination of Huerta, r upSfi which the TThited States lias In sisted from the beginning. Notifi cation of the offer of intermediation 1 was .sent not only to the diplomatic , representatives of Argentine, Brazil and Chile in the City of Mexico, but to Oen. Carranza and the Constitn- tionalists in northern Mexico. _ The Brazilian, Argentine and Chi lean envoys transmitted the United States acceptance of their proposal to the Spanish ambassador who imme diately sent It by cable to the Span ish legation at the City of Mexico for presentation to Gen. fiuerta. The text of the offer made by the Rrasllion ambassador and the minis ters from Argentine and Chile and the reply of the American govern ment transmitted by Secretary Bryan in person to the three diplomats is as follows: • “Mr. Secretary of State: “With the purpose of subserving the interest of peace and civilization in our continent, and with the ut most desire to prevent any further bloodshed, to the prejudice of the cordiality and union which have al ways surrounded the relations of the governments and the people of Amer- • ice, we. the plenipotentiaries of Brazil, Argentine and Chile duly authorised hereto, have the honor for the peaceful and friendly settlement of the conflict between the United States and Mexico. __ [ t "This offer puts In due form tlie * suggestions which we have had occa- ^^^slon to offer heretofore on .this sub- ^H^ject to the secretary, to whom we re- ^Wlmew the assurances of our highest and most distingulshd consideration. "D. Da Gama, “R. 8. Naon. “Ecuador Saurez.” The reply of the president, made through the secretary of state-to the diplomatic representative, was as fol lows: The president is deeply confident of the friendliness, the good feeling and the generous concern for the peace and welfare of America manl- ' tested in the joint not just received tendering the good offices of your governments to affect, if possible, a settlement of the present between the government of the United States and thos who now claim to rpresent our sister republic of Mexico. Conscious of the purpose with which the prof fer is made, this government does not feel at liberty to decline it. Its chief Interest is in the peace of America) the cordial Intercourse of her republic find our people, and the happiness and prosperity which can spring only outTrt frank, mutual un derstanding of the friendship which is created by common purpose. The generous offer of your governments Is therefore accepted. •"This government hopes most earnestly that you may find those who speak Ion; the soberer elements of the Mexican people wiUtpg and ready to discuss permanent settle ment. If you shonld find them will ing this government will be glad to take up with you for discussion in the frankest and most conciliatory, spirit any proposals that may be .au thoritatively formulated, and will hope that they may prove feasible and prophetic v of a new day of mutual co-opei The Tampico situation is so rlous, according to a wireless mes sage reaching Galveston ..Saturday that two torpedo boats were sent up the Panuco river at Tampico to get Americans. Refugees arriving from Tampico Saturday said they were sav ed from rioting Mexicans early Wed nesday morning by German soldiers. The story of the riot was told by Americans on the collier Cyclops, which anchored at Galveston Satur day/ !,■ The trouble started Tuesday night after the American warships at Tam pico had left their positions near short and steamed some miles out to sea. The refugees said they believed the warships withdrew because they had orders not to seize Tiampico, and believed their Immediate presence might excite the Mexicans. After dark bands of Mexicans began to pa rade, offering Insults to Americans who had withdrawn to the shelter of the principal hotels in Tampico. About midnight a mob estimated at 600 began throwing stones at the Southern hotel, where there were 20 or 30 American womjan and some 300 American men, according to the ref ugees’ estimate. William Hanson, a former United States deputy mar shal in south Texas, organized the American men, who had a few rifles and pistols, for resistance. The Americans, however, had so little ammunition that they did not dare open fire, fearing the Mexicaaa. would kill them after their cartridges were-exhausted.- - The naob, embolden-, began pounding on the doora with clubs and fists. One Mexican fired through a window, but no one was woufided. ' Capt. von Kohler of the German cruiser Dresden, the refugees said, sent officers ashore, notifying the mob that unless they dispersed within 15 minutes he would land marines. The mob withdrew. The German sailors then took the women from the Southern and from the Imperial hotels aboard tjie boats to ships in the harbor. There was some rioting at the Imperial hotel, but not much damage was done. CONGRESSMAN IEVER WORKS FOR FARMERS ' We copy the article below from a recent Issue of The Country Gentle man: 7— The moment had x arrived for the first gun to be fired in defense of the Farmers’ Money Bill. The House doors were closed, the pages ran hither and thither to round up the members, and the clerk called the roll. There was a quorum present, “The House is in Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union for the purpose of further con sideration of the bill H. R. 13679,” announced the chairman. The clerk read the bill. A wiry little, man jumped up and was recog nized. - The fightlhg representative from South Carolina, the man behind the Farmers’ Money Bill, had the floor. ^ , . “Mr. Chajrman,”'/"Representative Lever began, “at brea'kfast this morn ing I happened to overhear a remark made by one of those two-by.-four know-it-alls that set me thinking, . It was this: ‘No class of people in this am contained fh this bill, "My study ef the economic situa tion in this country, and of the un mistakable tendencies clearly appar ent to students of these conditions, furnishes the Justification for this call your attention to certain ten dencies^- certain danger signals that bill. I ask your indulgence while I bid us stop, look, and listen. “la 1880, 70.5 per cent of the pop ulation of the United States was classed as agricultural. In 1910 only 53.7 per cent of thit population was so classified. Even these figures are misleading, for the fact is that only 28 per cent of our people actually live upon the farm. The drift of pop ulation from farm to city is unmis takable, and It the tendency contin ues unchecked the number Of people living on the farm fifty years hence will be negligible in comparison with the total population. venture into the field of proph ecy to the extent of saying that fifty years hence less than twenty per qent of our people, unless present tendencies are arrested, will be called upon to feed and to clothe the re- irtra TO CONFER WITH CARRANZA. Villa Left for South Tuesday to Dis cuss Medition Proposals. Gen. Francisco Villa left for the South Monday, but said he would re turn to Juarez soon. At Chihuahua he is expected to hold an Important conference with Gen. Carranza, had of the Constitutionalists concerning American relations and the mediation plan of the big South American re publics. _ • In addition he says he has Import ant duties south in connection with organizing the campaign against the federals who, after defeats at Mon terey, Torreon and San Pedro have rallied their scattered forces at Sal tillo. Gen. Villa Lelegraphed Gen. Pablo Gonzales, whose troops captured Monterey, to treat foreigners with every condition. Gen. Villa said he was heartily in favor of the media tion plan., *T feel sure of a speedy solution of the complication, and then we can go ahead with our rev olution,” he declared. STEAMER REPORTED LOST. e Crew of Two Hundred and Seventy- five Passengers in Danger The state department at Washing ton Friday received a k dispatch which seems to indicate that the Pacific Mail steamer, with seventy- five passengers on board, sunk off the southeastern coast of Formosa Home- time during that night or ^rly that morning. The liner all night signall ed the wireless “8. O. S.<” In an at tempt to summon help, but the sig nals stopped abruptly to-day. Sev eral ocean liners which were in the seas nearby are racing to her assist ance but the nearest Is reported as being full sfic hours away. Among the passengers on board is the wife of Gen. Harrison, the Dem ocratic governor-general of the Phil- lipine Islands. '■ ■ ■ ■ . „ Would Have to Fight. When a demand was made Satur day at Meexico City on the Gearman Embassy to surrender its arms Ad miral Von Hintze, the German min ister, replied, "If you get the arms you will have to fight for them. act of aggression on the part of those who control the military forces of Mexico might oblige the United Bratton and confidence In Amer ica. “This government feda bObtid Th candor to say that (ts diplomatic re lations with Mexico betyg for the present severed, It is not possible for It to make sure df an uninterrupted opportunity to carry out tie plsn of States to act to the Upsetting of the hopes of-Immediate peace, hot this does not justify us In hesttstteg-to country except the farmer and the crlmlhal can get any money from the Federa^ government for any purpose. Do you know that there* is appropriat ed $50,000,000 a year for the farm ers of this country? ' 0 “He had a good face, was well dressed, and seemed to be a man of Intelligence, but his asinine display of ignorance, uttered with the arro gance of apparent information, made me propound to myself the query: Tt is possible that such gross ignorance is prevalent generally among the peo pie with reference to what the Fed eral governmnt is doing for agricul ture?’ “Mr. Chairman, instead of expend ing $50,000,000 a year for the agri culture of this nation, the fact that the expenditures of the Department of- Agriculture that go in direct aid to- thw farmer, -and to • Btor‘fiTBM; amount to only $9,690,000 annually! “The bill that we are about to con sider appropriates In round numbers $25,000,000, including permanent ap propriation for the department is us ed in its regulatory, police and quar antine work, while only thirty-eight per cent, is used In aid of the great est occupation of the people of this county. “In the face of such facts, and with an understanding of what the re search and demonstration work of this* department mean to the people of the country, Is there one bold enough to repeat the charge that this committee has been unduly liberal In its attitude toward this work? For myself I have no apologies to make; I am prepared to defend every Item in this bill as a wise investment of pub lic funds. “The appropriation provided in this bill is a mere bagatelle, Incon sequential in comparison with our appropriations for other purposes. What will a comparison show? You will appropriate for the support of the army this year $94,000,000 in round numbers. This means that ev ery time you appropriate one dollar to aid In the development and en couragement of the oldest occupation of mankind yon are appropriating ten dollars for the maintenance and support of the army.” Looking Into theT'uture. “You are spending more this year to maintain this little square of ten miles in the District of Columbia than you are approprlatng for the agriculture of the entire country. You are spending more for the mainten ance of the wards of this nation, the Indians, than you are appropriating this year for the encouragement of the agriculture of the country. You will very likely appropriate $140, 000,000, In round numbers, for the support of the navy this,.year. This means that every time a dollar is ex penned to help the farmers to keep their corncribs and smokehouses and to feed the people of this nation you are spending fifteen dollars for your navy. “You will spend $180,000,000 for pensions this year. I shall not con tlnue: b to the fact that the total appropria tions for all purposes for the pres ent fiscal year amount to $1,105,- 000,000, of which amount the paltry suta of $9,690,000, or nine-tenths of dhe per cent of the total, goes to the development of the basic business of the country. “Is the criticism of this committee —that it is over-liberal to the De partment of Agriculture of this coun try—to bo continued In the face of such facts? I should life to com mend to such critics the facts that the total agricultural capitalization of this country is more than $42,- 000,000,000. The farmers are pro ducing annually more than $9,000,- 000,000. “But I do not ask that the appro priation recommended in this bill shall stand upon invidious compar- icons. I am content to have each Item rest solely upon Its own merit and the character and importance of the work contemplated under It. -tnariBiwyelghlT pei twrtf pendous task; can they do it? "Why this drift of population from farm to city? Why are our hoys and girls leaving the farm, turning their backs upon the old homestead, with its tender memories and hallowed as sociations, to cast their lot among strangers in our great unsympathetic cities, where competition is keen and pressing. “They are leaving because the op portunities for intellectual, social and financial well-being furnished by the cities are better than can be had in the country; because the educa tional facilities of the city are better than those of the country; because communication in cities is easier, quicker and batter than it is in the country; because they believe that city life affords greater remuneration for labor; and because country life Is thought to he mnnotonoua, Irksome critics of this MU bavo never studio* the facts, .or can act distinguish bo- tween aa lavestment sad sa expen diture." _ v . A member of the House jumped to his feet sad received recognition. “Does not tbs gentleman believe that in modern civilization wo are work ing at cross purposes?” he asked. “For illustration, does not the gentle man know that to many large cities we-have booster clubs, whose busi ness It Is to Invito people to come from the country Into town, and then wo have philosophers standing round Inviting them to go from the town to the country?" The Farmer to Defend the Nation. “I think these people—the folks who are trying to get the people from the country to the county—ought to be put into an insane asylum,snap ped back the South G&rolinlan. I never heerd of a boosters’ club In any city,” volunteered another member, “except, perhaps, to boost the idle of unemployed population that we have in the city into the country, and make them earn their jiving on tha.. iaiun- .ahoro they «*e MEXICAN FEDERAIS DKTJ , v. - - TOWN OF NUEVO CAME BACK TO BDIN IT y*& • 1 needed.” - "What Is the gentleman's town?” an Ohio member asked. “It is a little town on the Hudson River called New York,” answered the other. “Perhaps the gentlbm&n from Cincinnati has heard of it.’’ “Let me proceed,” begged Mr. Lever.-,-“I want to ask those who may complain about this bill and about what the Federal governmen' is doing for the farmer, if they have ever stopped to consider the other side of the question, what the farmer is doing for this government. “Has that proposition ever occur red to these gentlemen ? want to say that the perpetuation of repre sentative government, the contin uance of our present system, depends more upon the prosperity, happiness, wealth, education, conservatism and patriotism of the American farmer Unieer T am prepared to »how AgrteuHure. It makes me wwtfyf that-evev y ■ dullai recommendwf ftfr. accept your generous suggestion. We shall hope for the best results within a brief time, enooh to relieve our anxiety lest moot Ill-considered hoe- _ tlT demonstrations Should Interpret you propose, negotiation and disappoint our hom Of bki.jjf the work of the-Department of Agri culture will bring returns to the peo ple 1a the way of improved,an A more profitable methods of agricilltur*, better living conditions, and a larger ' and Nothing supply,' I, i In the! and Ill-rewarded. “Shall we exert ourselves to check this tendency or shall we stand by and permit it to go on until our cities have become crowded and Our rural communities deserted? To me the deserted homestead presents the evi dence of a tragedy, and is sufficient incentive to arouse my utmost en thusiasm and effort in behalf of the betterment of rural conditions. “I wonld commend to you the beautiful lines of Goldsmith in The Deserted Village: "111 fares the land, to hastening Ills a prey. Where wealth accumulates, and men decay; Princes and lords may flourish, or may fad< A breath can make them, as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry, their country’s pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied. “Let us take a look fifty years hence—a short period In the life of a nation, less than the span of a hu man life—and see what is before us The population of the United States during the last census period increas ed twenty-onjs per cent. If that In crease continues—and there is no reason why ft will not continue—the population of the United States in 1960 will be 238,006,000, an increase of 169 per cent. “Now let us see. In 1910 each man, woman and child in this country had available ninety-one pounds of beef. If the ratio of decrease con tinues for fifty years as it has during the past ten years, then each man woman and child in the country will have available only sixty-one pounds of beef,or a decrease of thirty-three per cent. , "In 19ic( the per capita supply of pork available was eighty-nine pounds. If the decrease for the next fifty years in pork production con tinues as great as it has been during the last ten years, the available per capita amount of pork at the end of fifty years will be thirty-four pounds. In like manner at the end of fifty years we shall have only three pounds tplta “Yet gentlemen complain that we carry to this appropriation bill a few hundred thousand dollars to encour age the people of the country to erad icate disease from meat-producing animals and to encourage sections of this country that are not producing beef and pork and mutton to go into the production of these commodities. Is it's wise complaint? Is it a just criticism? “We appropriate something like $600,000 for the eradication of dis ease from animals. Listen! The loss from animals diseases" to "flits coun try, as estimated by the Agricultural Department, annually amounts to $212,850,000. “Two hundred and tkelve million dollars a year lost from diseases In ttio meat-producing animals of tills country, and yet gentlemen complain that the Committee on Agriculture is ramming its bands into the Treasury -than upon any other factor. “In the past be has been the na tion’s defense. In the future he must be the bulwark to protect it against the unrest and the anarchy of your great city centers. I stood in the gentleman's home city one morning, and looking acrosa Madison Square I saw hundreds and hundreds of people who had spent the night in the open, some of them lying on the rustic benches, some underneath with nothing bnt an evening newspaper for a pillow. “And I said to myself that if the red flag of anarchy ever goes up to this country it will go up from the idle classes of our great tfties; that if this nation la to be preserved, If our flag Is still to float to majesty. It will have to be preserved and kept floating by the boys and girls and the men and the women back down In the hills and to the valelys of South Carolina and on the farms throughout the length and breadth of this great land of oars.” In congress they are still talking about the speech made by the Sooth Carolina representative who defended th Farmers’ Money Bill. Senators came across to the House to hear him make it. It was a great speech, backed by the most formidable array of facts and flgnres imaginable. The committee has pledged Itself to fight to the last ditbh for every oent contained to the bill. Let us leave it, then, in the hands of its defenders to the House and in the Senate, and later see how well it stood the fray and In what condition it was when It went to the president SHOT IN THE BACK save that 1212,000,000 of annual loss, to spend $85,000,000 a year building ratLrqads In Alaska or your 9140,000,000 a year for your big navy or your $04,000,000 a year for your Hampton Man is Assassinated as He Turned to Walk Awajk Sam Overstreet was shot and kill ed about five miles from Hampton Saturday night by Alfred Langford. The shooting occurred at the home of Langford’s father-in-law, John Bassett. Bassett, it seems, was away from home in the early part of the evening and his friend, Sam Over- street, took him home, according to the testimony, when he met Langt rd, who it seems because abusive and threatened to kill Overstreet, who paid bat little attention to him, thinking he was Joking, but aa he ■■ned his back was shot by Lang ford, and as he fell was shot twice more in the head and neck. Lang ford bears a bad reputation, having been frequently in trouble before this. It was only a few months ago that be shot and almost fatally wounded the chief of police at Brunson. ■■■ 1 1 ♦ ■'y Ordered to Washington. A Vera Cruz dispatch pays Amer ican charge d’affaires —Nelson O’Shaughnessy Friday received or- denf/to come to Washington Imme diately and report to the state de partment. He expects to leave with in twenty-four hours. Three torpedo boats were ordered to proceed to Tampico 3 —' - ■ /'/r * After Evacuating City Mexican erals Return on Following Day Destroy It—United States try Guarding International Kills TWO. Neuvo Laredo, the thriving Mexi can border town opposite Laredo, Texas, was in ruins Friday night, devastated by dynamite and fired by Mexican federals who late Friday be gan an orgy of destruction which ended only when they were forced to flee before the. guns of the American wrder patrol. Two Mexicans am ■* known to have been killed by tbn United Statee troops. . \ Several brisk i skirmishes between fire Americans and Mexicans occur red aa the Mexicans, their troop trains ready to leave the burning city, began an indiscriminate fim across the international boundary. Property damage in Nuevo Laredo will reach $600,660^ Among tho buildings destroyed were the UnlUA States consulate, municipal buildings, post office, theatre, flour mill, one of the largest in that section; the rail road shops of the Mexican National railway and other structures. There was no property loss in Lar edo. Both International bridges am safe, though efforts to dynamite them resulted to the death of two men en gaged In the undertaking. One Mex ican was Phot by h sharftftodfer ftom the top of the water tower. The Mex ican was trying tp reach the end of the international foot and wagon bridge. Another was killed when hti tried to blow up the Mexican end of the international railway bridge, American soldiers are constantly sta tioned at the American end to pre vent such an attempt When Mexican soldiers finally left order was quickly restored at Laredo, but strong guards remain throughout the city. A serious problem was fur nished Immigration and dty authori ties by the presence there of hundreds of refngeee from tho burning eity.“ Tho federal garrloon Nuevo taredo Thursday, going to Saltillo or Monterey, their departure the dty, of about 7,000 population, was vir tually deserted. Early Friday tha federals returned end It wee 1 ed that they came beck for 1 engines to put to their troops train. There was little sxdtemeat ronesg by the presence of the federals until Thursday afternoon. Smoke was seen issuing from some of the build ings around the plaza. The munici pal building and the American con sulate, on oppodte sides ef tha square, broke Into flames. Next deer to the consulate, the poet eftse, tem porarily closed, also was sen to ha burning and around the pleas am tbs began to Issue from the windows sad roofs of other buildings. A few minutes later e loud explo sion wrecked several bosses end thm fire spread rapidly to all dlreetieaeL Americans began to gather ea thm river bank, hot hastily when warned that other nearer at band might occur. Troopa at Fort McIntosh were qnlckly order ed out and soon a rigid guard wna established to the danger son*. At' the two bridges the guards ware rein forced, and it was here that th* only known loss of life occurred. A battery of field artillery wna sent to the power house of the Lar edo Electric and Lighting company, staring an attack there, but them was nothing for them to do. fled- eral Mexicans were seen to' fan be fore the fire of the machine gun, bat they were carried away by their com rades. After silencing the Mexkaaa, part of the drawn from the river front "m Governor Aids Negro. up to the elbow, drawing out money [ _ jSSL._BleM* Saturday commuted for Che support of the Department of AUTOMOBILE RUNS AWAT. ** fl 1 F No Accident Follows Wild Dash of a Greenville Car. A runaway automobile caused con sternation in Greenville opera bonsai square Saturday afternoon. Bette* the car was stopped a water ping had been wrecked, a bill board demol ished and considerable damage dona to the machine. The car belongs to J. R. Wort, wha attempted to crank up with his en gine to gear; with the result that .An came dangerously near being run ov er when the car leaped forward: Hadl the car not veered and hit the Mil- board after wrecking the water hy drant there might have been n asm- ’ her of fatalities, as It was facing a crowded thoroughfare when It leap ed forward. the death sentence of Henry Jonee, n negro, who would have h4Nn exe- Robbers Get *4,000. Jibbers used the min of the the public word# of Porebeetkr coun ty. — » » Wold’s The New ka, Fla., We With $4,569. l feel