The government of the United States has viewed with deep concern and increasing disappointment the progress of the revolution in Mexico. Continuous bloodshed and disorders have marked its progress. For three years, the Mexican republic has been torn with civil strife; the lives of Americans and other aliens have been sacrificed; vast properties developed by American capital and enterprise have been destroyed or rendered non-productive; bandits have been permitted to roam at will through the territory contiguous to the United States, and to seize, without punishment or without effective attempt at punishment, the property of Americans, while the lives of citizens of the United States who ventured to remain in Mexican territory or to return there to protect their interests have been taken, and in some cases barbarously taken, and the murderers have neither been apprehended nor brought to justice. It would be difficult to find in the annals of the history of Mexico conditions more deplorable than those which have existed there during these recent years of civil war.

FEDERALIST TO BE CONTINUED AFTER INSTANCE
It would be tedious to recount instances after instance, outrage after outrage, atrocity after atrocity, to illustrate the true nature and extent of the widespread conditions of lawlessness and violence which have prevailed. During the past nine months in particular, the frontier of the United States along the lower Rio Grande has been "Continued on Second Page."

WASHINGTON AND RETURN, $2.00 from Richmond. Second Educational Excursion. Tickets good only on special train leaving Shafterton Broad Street 8:30 A.M.  Saturday, July 15, and returning, leave Washington 8 P. M. same date. There will be a quick dash over the boundary line if conflict comes. 