File No. 812.00/574.
The Mexican Ambassador to the Secretary of State.
The ambassador of Mexico has the honor to forward to the Department of State a copy of No. 15, of the 10th instant, of Regeneración, a subversive paper published at Los Angeles by Eicardo Flores Magón and his associates, and respectfully draws the Department’s attention to the last part of the article “Las Bombas y el Despotismo,” whose character of anarchistic propaganda is obvious.
The Mexican ambassador’s object in sending this paper is to adduce elements upon which judgment can be formed in determining the culpability of men who use the mails for the circulation of publications that are so notoriously anarchistic as the newspaper Regeneración.
Note by the Department of State.—The following is the translation of the passage in Regeneración to which the Mexican ambassador calls attention:
The Diario denounces the use of bombs by the rebels, but it does not denounce the bombardment of the insurgents by the army with machine guns.
The Diario’s lament is not, however, to mollify a single rebel. Science, which created marvelous cannons and the admirable modern firearms with which the armies of to-day are supplied, has also created explosives of great power which revolutionists can obtain with ease and of which they can avail themselves to execute tyrants, blow up bridges, and annihilate the soldiers of oppression.
Violence which frees is no crime; it is a virtue. Dynamite which destroys oppressions is the fruitful and glorious force of progress and emancipation.