The St. Johns herald., 1886-08-19
An AriZOnian's Views.
A Globe-Democrat renorter gj

'A AOcS DOhIOOAd0 CpOitCA SifOE
 the following interview with Col
 B. F. Bivens, from the City of Mex
 ico. The Colonel is a native of the
 United States, but is at present ot
 rather cosmopolitan residence. His
 legal domicile is in Tucson, where
 he is registered and casts his vote
 his business residence is the City oi
 Mexico, where his mining head
 quarters are; but his heart is gen.
 orally in Philadelphia, where his family lives and his sons go to
 school. Col. Bivens has been .do- ing business in Mexico for three
 years, and has travelled in all parts
 of the republic. He has had a good
 opportunity to observe Mexican af-
 fairs and people, and he is as en- thusiastic in behalf of the country as the average Fourth of July ora tor is for the glorious land of the free. He has just arrived from the City of Mexico, and has some de- cided views upon the question of the trouble now pending over the arrest of Cutting, the Fl Paso (Tex. editor.
 Are the people of Mexico much excited over the affair."" he was asked yesterday,
 "No. They appreciate that it amounts to nothing serious, and can lead to nothing serious, and they treat it with contempt, If the Texans were as sensible as the Mex jeans, the matter would have been entirely dropped before this. Those rampant Texans who are bowling for war are the scum of the people and the newspapers who represent them. They are the kind who run at the first smell of g4npowder. The best American citizens in Mex leo and in Texas condemn the agi- tation. As I was coming up stop ped along at several places, and 1 did not find one intelligent Ameri, can who does not think Cutting ought 10 have at least five ye;trs in the Penitentiary"
 This so-called Colonel after de- lailing the particulars of Cuttings arrest, continues his interview to the reporter.
 The Colonel grew warm as he proceeded: "The United States Government and the people along the border are extremely unkind and unjust with Mexico and her citizens. The Americans (by this, of course, 1 mean only United States citizens) along the Rio Grsnde are always disorderly and unruly, and they never lose an op- portunity.to get into trouble with 'greasers,' as they call them. They feel that they are stronger than they, because our Government is strong, whereas Mexico is weak. Conse- quently they are bold for fight at all times, and they boast of their alleged superiority over the Mexi- cans. This trouble furnishes fair sample of their ways. 1 have be- come pretty thoroughly acquainted with the Mexican character, and I know that the impression which so largely obtains in the United States that the people are quarrelsome, revengefnl, and regardless of the rights of life and property, is in- correct"
 According to this statement the business of this doughty Colonel is located in the City of Mexico. The old, old story of Judas and the thirty pieces of silver. God and country for Mexican mines. It would be speaking entirely too mild to say this fellow Bivens is incor- rect, but probably the bullion which he mines and has given such en- thusiastic volubility to his tongue, has also served him a benefcent 1 purpose in rendering his stay in that country more pleasant and the officials more decorous.
 The season has been disastrous one for the sheep interests of the Mir C. W. Lewis in- l