Bisbee daily review., 1906-07-22
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by the organization of the league of Mexican railroad employees, now grown to be one of the most powerful politi' cal factors in Mexico. yet there can be no gainsaying the fact that there is a crisis near at hand, and that this crisis is one which bodes no good for the persons who are behind the move ment to drive foreigners--Americans. English, French, and Germans-from official positions in the railroads, mines and smelters.
 The Americans are minimizing the condition of things in order that the investing public may not become wary and thus withhold it's dollars from the development of the properties of that republic. The officials of the leading trunk lines of Mexico are making light of the situation for the same reason and partly from a spirit of bravado.
 It is, however. among the better classes of the Mexican people them- selves that the fear of an uprising is most apparent. They say to a man that the situation is far more serious than the authorities dare to admit. They say they know there is much more reason to dread at least tenl- porary uprising in the states of Aguas- calientes. San Luis Potosi. Nuevo Leon. and Chihuahua than the authori- ties will allow. They say moreover, that although the revolution" may be very short lived. yet there is DO doubt that elaborate preparations are being made to spring one on the day of the Independence fiesta. September 16, af- ter the "grito" is given by the multi | tude in the various Piazas de la Con- stitucion" of the respective capitals of the states mentioned.
 It is at that time that the spirit of | hatred toward foreigners is rampant and even in the capital city of Mexico ! the peons run the principal streets of ! the city armed with slaves and stones | headed by agitators carrying red flags l and torches. crying 'Mata los gringos! Mata los grineos!" This will be the | time it is said when the revolutions will break out in the shape Of upris- | ings in the various state capitals. or as they are known colloquia:ly moths"
 But the government is thoroughly conversant with every movement on the part of the reactionaries. and al ready there are preparations being l made to quell the slightest disorder. | In all the capitals where there is a | tremor of hostile feeling towards the i constituted authorities. there has been placed a greatly enlarged force of sol, diery. and if by chance it is found that Lthe chiefs of the military departments are inclined in a friendly manner to- wards the agitators. these jefes are changed to other districts remote from railroads where there is no antagonism | toward foreigners.
 Your correspondent has it from a source which is beyond contradiction that the government is sure of its men in this instance, and that only tried soldiers are being sent to the hotbeds E.of the alleged sedition, namely in the city of Aguascalientes, these men are sent with orders to shoot to kill and to use no blanks in the soaring of the mobs should the outbreak occur.
 Ordinarily iI is the case that in all popular uprisings from an excess of what is gently termed patriotic senti, | ment, the soldiers first utilized the 1 cavalry, who charge the mob with 1 drawn sabers, using the flat sides of | them to beat back the rioters, then a volley of three charges of blanks is fired point blank into the crowd to scare them into subiection. But in this case there will be no firing of blanks. The soldiers will shoot to kill from the first, and there will be a stren suppression of the disorder.
 This league of Mexican railroad en- l plcyes, which is given the credit by all concerned for the stirring up of the movement against foreigners, has as its presidents in the states of Aguas- calientes, Chihuahua, Guanajuato, Ne. evo Leon. and San Luis Potosi, the re- spectiye governors of those states, ac. cording to the literature of the order which has been widely circulated aTong the railroad men and all classes of laborers in the republic Needless to say. the governors thus accused most strenuously deny that they have any connection with the order.
 The grand league has also througs it's highest officers ade denials of any idea of creating trouble and has Is. sued statements to that effect. These assert that the order is well satisfied I with the good work which has been dene by Americans in the republic land does not mean to antagonize them I Despite the denials the public gener
 ally believes that the railroad men:
 league is to blame for all the tall
 which has been made and that at it's
 meetings incendiary speeches are re
 peaJedly made, calling upon Mexican.
 to save their country. Tn the towns O Aguascalientes. Silao. Guanajuato, anC
 even in Guadalapara there have beer processions of men who carried ban , ners bearing the inscriptions, "Mexict para les Mexicanos.''
 These meetings are attributed to th' Hgran liga," in fact. the railroad mel
 themselves boast that the 'sliga' is t accomplish great things. Among them selves your correspondent has over , heard expressions such as these: 9Th Mexicans cannot occupy high position or the railroads or in the mines. Al 1 the best things are taken by foreign