Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1908 — PROBLEMS THAT VEX [ARTICLE]

PROBLEMS THAT VEX

They Are Thick on the Border That Separatee Us from Mexican Territory. NEUTRALITY 18 ONE OF THEM Also Difficult to Convince Mexico of Our Sincerity.. What Are “Political” Offbnaea? Is a Burning Question Which Officials Decide in Favor of President Diaz.

Washington, July 31.—Inability to extradite offenders for so-called political offenses, but which, in the opinion of the administration, are really crimes that should be extraditable, to proving a source of great irritation in the effort which the government of the United States is making to break revolutionary activity along the MexicanTexas boundary. Thto, coupled with the difficulty of detecting and proving violations of the neutrality laws, makes it difficult to convince the Mexicans of the sincerity of this government in its expressed determination to punish the guilty, and this notwithstanding every possible bit of machinery at the disposal of the government to working to a common end. President Is Much Interested. On his recept trip to Oyster Bay Ambassador Creel talked over the whole subject of the border trouble with President Roosevelt who manifested a lively Interest, and who to determined to put an end to the mischiefmaking as far as Mes in the government’s power. The president, it is understood, favors, if necessary, the employment of special counsel who may apply themselves to/the question of neutrality violations ' and extradition, so that the law may be fully enforced. Raiders Are Considered Felons. Officials contend that there is no reason why persons on this side of the border who foment revolutionary movements and cross Into Mexico to engage in raids and other operations of a criminal character, arid then seek safety from arrest in this country, should have any exemption from extradition on the alleged ground that their acts were political. On the contrary the official view Is that they should be extradited as felons. Both the United States and the Mexican governments, -it is officially said, are fully aroused in this matter, and that the former will take drastic steps to end this species of pernicious activility so far ns it is incident to United States soil.