St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-05
.TYRAHT DIAz DENOUNCED.
eL00DTHIRSTY PROCLAMATION or
MEXICAN REV0LUTI0NiSTS.
WANT TO LIVE FREE Or DIE.

The President Accused Of Mort.
gaging Mexico in Foreign Mar
kets and Making the People
His Slaves-PeopIe Who Want
to Avoid B!oodshed Asked to
Join the Revolution.
DENVER, Dec. A copy of the pro-
nounciamento of the Mexican revolu-
tionists was received at the headquar
today. Ii is as follows:
Mexican Soldiers: Today we direct
ourselves to you in the confidence that
we are going TO talk with our own
brothers. We are sons of the same
mother; ours is one flag. one territory;
we speak the same language and seek
the same aggrandiZementi in the country
and our mutual felicity. Why, then, do
we meet with arms in hands and de-
strJy one another? Because the tYrants
OF the village are cunning enough TO de-
eeive US. The army in the democratic
countries is composed of free men and
citizens who love their country. so they
may defend it from as many dangers as
may threaten it. But you do not grasp
arms at your own will. You lived iE
tranquility in your own town by the
side of your mother and brothers; you
had a wife that took care of you and
your children, that greeted you with
caresses. From night until morning
you were confined in Jail, and after
wards by a subordinate official taken to
a room where you are registered, and in
the name of your country deprived of
your liberty.
Your mother and brothers remained
aba ndoned, your wife and children have
no protection, and since then you live
in a square piled together like stubble
and
GUARDED LIKE CATTLE.
us this the condition of free men that
subjeet themselves to military dlsci-
pline? Answer with your hands on
your hearts. No. A thousand times
| no.
docs the country demand these sac
rifces of US :? He deprlyes you of your
! liberty, he would deprive you of the
right to live in tranquility by the side of
your family. II is not the country. but
| Porfirio DiaZ, that bad Mexican who
has mortgaged Mexico in foreign mar
! ketS-that cursed son who murders his
| brothers and debaSes them?
you then grasp the arms to defend a
| deSpicable tyraht, but not 10 save the
country from any danger. We meet
/ face to face because you attempt to de
! fend an injustice: you are the strength
| sustained by tyrant that tortures the
country to pay you with wretched
| wages. We are the strength of right.
| We think what we do. Nobody pays US
/ to grasp the arms. The wicked and the
! lackeyS give us the name of bandits,
I but our conscience gives as the names
| of patriots. We want 10 live free or die,
| but not 10 be slaves.
''Me have read book that was writ
| ten with the blood of our forefathers.
| There we were shown to elect our con-
stttutional officers Dy means of free
suffrage; there we are shown to. think
as free citizens, and we are elevated tO
the
CATEGORY OF FREE MEN.
'sHhat book is shamed the political con.
stitution of 1858. Ii the tyrant who
pays you to murder US would govern by
that law we should live in TRANQUIL
peace, cultivating our land and caring
for our families. But we see the in
justice committed every day; we per.
ceiye the danger in which the country
is governed, and we have not hesitated
one moment to abandon everything
and have rushed to the battlefield tC
defend the rights of our outraged peo-
pie.
Mexican Soldiers: If you want tt
avoid bloodshed, join the revolution; il
Is not just that our mothers remain un.
protected: our wives, widows and oul
sons made orphans to let a tyrant enjoy
and distribute the spoilS OF The
nation. We, the revolutionists, de
fend a principle and seek the saliva
ton of the country. You defend {
man who makes you slaves and yoI
seek his ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. Down witt
him. Hurrah for the revolution. Hur
rah for Tomochi. Now we pass II
manifest to the entire nation the las
account of the 14th of April, '93, to date
After having been defeated either 70
lack of resources or for lack OF create
strength OF forces, We had TO abandon
the places we occupied, making ou
march under nre.
About two leagues from the
PLACE OF SIEGE
the soldiers and chiefs of the law coult
have exterminated the revolutionlstS
Those events having passed they shoul'
have followed up and succeeded in tn
arrest; they should have gone to com
petent authority that we might be triei
. according to law.
1--WE have seen in the official paper
which gives the number of the dead t
be forty-of the revolutionists-which
incorrect. and the same time deceit
In the battle of Santo Tomas onl
:. twenty-three died. Now the result; az
cording TO the list we have before Us
! there were shot slXty-one men. Of thi
, number possibly five or six might b
guilty of the revolution. the rest innC
cent. If the tyrant has believed b
, | could spite us with fear, convertin
, himself and his forces into murderers
. it is to the contrary, as each day W
find ourselves more offended, and W
, do not hesitate to grasp our arms an
. protest with our last breath In strue
i, | Cling for the defense of our brother
! and our country.
.sOn, fatal destiny. He has blinde
you and he has engendered malice i
j your breasts. He is second Nero. Boz
g1a, Cain, the natural son of Coveteou:
| ness. and you have made yourself
, Porfirio, the disgraced and fatal enem