Bisbee daily review., 1906-09-15
'MESCAL' SAYS STORIES HURT
 MEXICO
Reckless Stories Circulated Abroad are injurious to Vital Interests Of Thousands of Americans in Sonora.
DOUGLAS, Ariz., Sept. 11-fspll-

DOUGLAS, Ariz., Sept. 11.-(Spl.)- Cheap( reckless, brainless, mercen- cry journalism, Is delivering body blows every day and every hou- to | the vital interests of thousands of Americans and millions of American capital in northern Sonora.
 Hundreds of noble old knights of the pick and pan who have spent their best years in developing good proper | ties and who were about to -eap the reward of their lives, suddenly find their deals turned down as the result Of the yellow back rot which has flooded the columns of certain Amer lcsn newspapers during the few weeks l last past.
 Just why certain journals in Ari- zona especially, which enjoy ample facilities for testing tue truth and whose interests are intimately inter- woven with the great Sonora mining fieid, should voice and reiterate such orange complicated rot is totally in- comprehensible. Just why the Hearst combination which has always posed as the friend of the plain man can do so can not be understood. Just why Harper's Weekly, that staid old cham. pion Of conservatism, should come out in gleams of yellow and red is still more unfathomable, when there is not one syllable of truth in it and it is operating to ruin thousands of true Americans. It is freely conceded that spirit of unrest exists in Mexico, the merits of which it is not my province to discuss. but that 1t is in any sense directed against Americans is the sherest hog wash.
 The persistent attitude of the vel low press, especially in California, ts calculated to create and foster an arl- tagonism where none existed before. All pretenses toward unrest on the part Of the press arise out of the Cananea incident, which In its in cipiency was simply a labor demonstra, ton of the mildest form, but which ended in tragedy arising out of the passions stirrrd by i'll advised pro ceedings adopted on the spur of the moment. A body of Mexicans assemb- led and proceeded through the mines. the concentration and the smelter, ask ing their own countrymen to come out. Few if any were armed. They said nothing to the Americans nor offered them the slightest offense, until the gate was closed in their faces, the hose turned on them along with Win chester, and the rest is history. Americans had a right to flock to the rescue in the light of the inflama- tory telegrams received in Naco, Bis bee and Douglas, and Gov Yzabel is entitled to the gratitude of the Amer ican people for taking steps necessary to preserve life and property accord ing to lights by which he could only be guided at the time. Captain Ryn ming is entitled to all honor for head ing the contingent at the risk of his job when he had right to believe that Americans were in danger, but the fact remains that it was not an anti American demonstration, there need be no strained relations between Mex jeans and Americans and there will not be, unless it is ribbed up by these cor scienceless organs who delight in oth- CT mems loss and discomfiture The St. Louis junta is bad enough, but the | soulless periodicals which profess pa triUism and devotion to truth and which publish these miserable false hoods are a thousand times worse.
 These frequently recurring spasms
 
 | do, devotion to the inteersts of the public, are calculated to breed trouble They disseminate the microbes of dis content and lend tireless wings to the imp of mischief where profound amic- ability prevailed before. During the | last ten days 1 have visited several camps in northern Sonora including the Monte visto, Fl Globo and Mayo zari, and the Mexican population would never have heard of the proposed up rising had 1t not appeared to overflow ing in the columns of American news papers. As it was, mining men and business men, Americans and Mexicans alike flocked about me and asked me to endeavor to publish the truth to the world.
 They say that the revolution is all on paper and that on the Arizona side a better understanding never existed between Americans and Mexicans in northern Sonora. They deplore this campaign of yellow putrescense and ask that it be called of
 | It is a rank injustice to the thou sands of Eoble American prospectors In Sonora who are digging like beay- CTS for a we'll earned independence in their old age. It chills industrial ar dor. menacles enterprise, dismays cap ital and is daily bringing scores of worthy Americans to the brink of ruin. :! m appealing for Americans. l am not galvanized and would hardly be able to call for bread in Spanish, no star eyed senorita has ever squandered one smile on me, but love my coun- trymen and in their behalf do l raise my voice. The revolution if institut- ed at all. is hopeless, with the Mex ican army on one hand, the American On the other and Diaz, the Bismarck of Mexico. in the center.
 FRANK ALLEY.
 Between being arrested and com hitting suicide, our poor bank