The Minneapolis journal., 1906-08-04
WHAT OTHER PEOPLE THINK
"A FALSE ALARM
No Hostility Towards Americans In
Mexloo-

No Hostility Towards Americans In
Mexico.
To the Editor of The Journal.
Having read In the issue of your paper
of July % the press dispatch to the ef-
feet that all foreign residents in the re-
public Of Mexico had been warned to
leave that country before Sept. 16. on
which date there would be native up
rising against foreigners Of all nationali-
ties, and believing that pipe Dreams Of
this nature are calculated not only to un-
necessarily alarm persons who may have
friends or relatives residing In this re-
public, but also have the effect of seri.
ously injuring the interests Of those
Americans who are engaged in business
In this country, beg to advise you that
at no time in the history Of Mex
leo has an era of greater peace
been enjoyed, and at no time has it's able
and progressive president had the situa-
ton better In hand. Stories like the one
contained In the dispatch from New Or
leans would be laughable were it not for
the detriment they do to the trade rela-
tions between the two countries, and the
needless worry they are bound to cause
| to those persons who have family con-
necttons In this country, and cannot
know that such stories are base fabrica-
| tons, usually originated by persons who
have good reasons for leaving the country.
That there has been any exodus OF
Americans or other foreigners from Mex
leo Is entirely false; that there is the
slightest degree of alarm felt among the
foreign residents for their personal safety
| Is absurd In the extreme, as Is also the
statement that the government is max
Ing preparations to auell an uprising Of
the lower classes on Sept. 16. *f- '-
The cause of all these extravagant
stories, the recent strike in the mining
camp OF Cananea, state of Sonora, was
purely industrial disturbance and while
| 1t Is true that revolutionary and anti
foreign literature was distributed at the
time, 1t was merely with view of fur
ther exciting the strikers, and in no way
indicated the point at issue. The fact Of
the owners Of the mine being Americans
Was simply circumstance, and the. issue
was not that of the native against the
foreigner, but the workingman against
his employer. This was no: more nor less
than an industrial strike such as occurs
nearly every day in the year in the United
States, but which in this country, fortu-
nately, are very rare, owing to which
fact, probably the affair was given un-
due Importance. The origin of the trouble
was practically the same as that Of most
OF the similar disturbances in other
countries, that is that the leaders of the
labor unions find a strike to be profitable
to them, and excite the laborers by one
means or another to quit their work, and
usually, later, to acts Of violence. ;< -
1t is sincerely to be deplored that SEN
sat1onal stories like the one from New
Orleans should be given publicity, as the
trade relations between. the United
States and Mexico, which are daily be-
coming stronger, are liable to be seri-
oasly impaired thereby. .a2s1 i IL. s;19rx
. As 7 stated at the outset, these .fabri
cations are usually originated aby people
Who have the best Of reasons for leaving
the country, or who are flattered by the
cheap notoriety that the connection. Of
their names with sensational news gives
them. - L. "A. F,merv.s