The opening years of the nineteenth century, during which the Diaz régime was reaping the reward of its efforts to establish order and induce the economic development of the country, brought the period of most cordial relations between Mexico and the United States. The border problem was not at an end, but it was active only in Arizona and New Mexico and even there involved not so much raids across the boundary as the prevention of the purchase in the border towns of arms and ammunition, which were later used by the Indians against American citizens living south of the border. The attitude of the local authorities in the Mexican northwest toward American settlers also continued to be a matter of complaint.[1] Both governments were anxious to do all in their power to remove the reasons for friction.
The Yaqui Indians, against whose acts the most numerous protests were made, are a Sonora tribe, about
- ↑ Correspondence illustrating both phases of the problem is found in ibid., 1905, p. 639 et seq.
Relations of the United States. Some of the more important disputes illustrating phases of the border problem are found at the following points: 1878, p. 679, illustrating "revolutionary" activity; 1888, vol. 2, p. 1176, illustrating border kidnapping; 1893, vol. 1, p. 468, illustrating difficulty of securing evidence as to raiders; 1895, pp. 997-1013, illustrating position of refugees guilty of embezzlement; 1897, pp. 372 and 405, illustrating claims for damages caused by disturbance of public order. What is a political act?, also ibid., 1898, pp. 491-510; 1899, p. 499, illustrating unwillingness to surrender citizens to justice of another country; 1904, pp. 462-72, illustrating the prejudices of lower Mexican courts, and ibid., pp. 473-81, illustrating attitude of Texas authorities toward Mexican delinquents.
