No Trouble With Mexico.

New York Times 100 years ago today, August 24, 1912:

    The burden of the statements of Senator Fall of New Mexico in the Senate this week was that some Americans resident in the northern part of Mexico propose to make war against the Madero Government on their own account, and that rifles are to be sent to them from Bisbee; that 2,000 men in a Texas city intend to cross the border to stop "outrages."
    Senator Fall might call this an unfair summary of his utterances, but his speech contained nothing else of vital quality. If these statements are true, it is a pity. The Texans and the Bisbee folks are likely to involve others than themselves in serious trouble. Senator Fall's chief cause of complaint is that the belligerent rights of Orozco were not recognized by the State Department. Events, thus far, have justified the course of Secretary Knox in this matter. Orozco's rebellion has petered out. The Mexican Government is liable for losses sustained by peaceful American citizens in Mexico; it will assuredly not be held liable for losses sustained by belligerent American citizens who make war on their own account.
    The Tribune prints a special dispatch from Mexico asserting that Senator Fall is personally interested in the ownership of a large tract of land in Chihuahua, the value of which has been impaired by the disturbances. This statement, and some deductions from it, appear in the Nueva Era, a Government newspaper in the Mexican capital. We need not take seriously the assertion that Senator Fall's recent agitation about our relation with Mexico is due to fear of pecuniary loss. But he has laid himself open to such charges by making mountains out of molehills.
    Senator Bacon of Georgia is also excited without sound reason when he expresses his fear that the Federal Government may send troops into Mexico without consulting Congress. The landing of United States marines in Nicaragua cannot be construed as a precedent for such an act. Nicaragua is not able to take care of itself. The officers of the State Department have merely followed long-established precedent. A much graver scandal touching the Nicaragua "revolution" is that it was probably financed by American citizens.
    The Mexican Government is able to take care of itself, and, according to trustworthy information, without regard to the "scare" stories emanating from dubious sources, is doing so with considerable ability.