File No. 312.115/85.
Consul Miller to the Secretary of State.
Tampico, June 5, 1914, 8 p.m.
Department’s June 3106 was referred to Governor Caballero who replied as follows to-day:
With real displeasure the Government under my charge has seen by your note which you received from Washington that the Department of State has been informed that the Constitutionalist Government of this State has levied forced loans as war taxes on business men including foreigners and, although this Government has formulated no official plan for following any procedure relative to loans, I beg to state that it is very far from the purpose of the revolution to levy any forced loans at all, especially against foreigners who have nothing to do with national affairs, and such sums that have been received in this way have been by the proper office and in the most spontaneous and voluntary manner on the part of the donors who desired to assist the revolution in this form; furthermore the revolution itself, and especially in the State of Tamaulipas which is under the control of the undersigned, has more than the needed resources not only to sustain itself but also to assure in this form at present and in future the integrity of the state, this well known sufficiency of resources on which it counts to participate in the general revolution in an effective manner, as it has always done.
- Relates to protection of Spanish subjects. Not printed.↩