Finally, I wish you to examine the question of the patrol of the border and put as many troops on that work as is practicable, and more than are now engaged in it, in order to prevent the use of our borderland for the carrying out of the insurrection.
Taft emphasizes the importance of increasing troop presence on the border to prevent insurrection.
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