Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-09
PLAN MEXICAN
REVOLT HERE
JuNTA ADVOCATES THE OVER
THROW OF DlAz
u. S. TO PROCEED AGAINST THEIR
JOURNAL
Thousands of Members of the Liberty
Party in California-Prlce of
Twenty Thousand Dollars
on Leaders Head

nando street is the headquarters of
La Libertad or Mexican Sons of Liberty,
a party organized for the overthrow of
the present form of government OF
Mexico.
At the head of this revolutlonist organ
izatibn is Ricardo Flores Magon. Mexi-
can bandit and outlaw for whom the
Mexican government offers a reward Of
$4,000 dead or alive.
The personal agent and representative
of Magon in this city is Modesto Diaz.
cousin many degrees removed of General
Porfirio Diaz, president of the Mexican
republic. +t.
The organ of this revolutionary party is
newspaper called La Revolution, of
which Modesto Diaz is the editor and pub
Usher.
Back of the publication is a junta COM
posed of fifteen members, Of which Ri
cardo Magon is the chairman, his brother,
Enrique Magon. vice chairman, and Mo-
desto Daz secretary and active manager
The junta is a thoroughly well organ
lied one and has membership of more
than 10000 Mexican laborers. self-styled
patriots they who are employed in and
near Los Angeles as laborers on rail-
roads, canals and irrigation works, and
In this city as section hands or street
sweepers
The object of the organization is the
overthrow of the Diaz government, the
assassination of President Diaz, of Presi-
dent Roosevelt, and the turning of Mexico
into a dictatorship with Ricardo Flores
Magon as the head of the influential
members of the local junta as his advisers.
Advocates Assassination
In La Revolution the killing of Presi-
dent Diaz and of President Roosevelt is
advocated. They are condemned in the
language of the junta because they have
entered into a conspiracy to oppress the
Mexican laborers in this country and rob
them of their just dues as wage-earners.
Attention is called in the infiammatory ad-
dresses printed in La Revolution to the
fact that Mexican laborers are employed
as section hands at 81 per day while
Americans are given from $175 to $2.25
per day for the same work.
President Diaz is denounced as a muir
derer and a despoiler of homes. and
President Roosevelt is accused in incen-
diary language of being in conspiracy
with President Diaz to perpetuate the
Diaz government and to oppress the
Mexican residents of this country and
keep them in a practical state of peon-
age.
Z The attention of the department of JUS
-rtice at Washington has been called TO
La Revolucion and the United States
attorney for Southern California has
istence of the so-caled junta and the
propagandists of the new liberty party
looking to the suppression by law of the
publication and the arrest and prosecu-
ton. If found necessary, of the members
of the junta who are responsible for its
issue.
The Mexican liberty league has been or
ganized in this city for more than year.
Its inception was from the brain of Ri
cardo Magon who is wanted in Mexico
for treason and other high crimes against
the government. With his brother En-
rique he attempted five years ago to or
ganize a revolutionary party at Juarez
to wrest by force of arms the control of
the government from President Diaz and
his supporters.
Escapes from Mexico
He was indicted for treason and through
the treachery of two Mexican officials was
informed of the fact in advance of the
report to the government and made his
escape to this country.
For months he lived in Los Angeles un-
der an assumed name and was finally dis
covered here by Detectives Talamantes
and Rico of the local police force, but
again he escaped the clutches of the law
and went from this city to Butte, Mon
tana.
From there Detective Talamantes traced
him successfully to st. Paul, Chicago,
New York ana New Orleans. From the
latter city he went to Galveston and from
there to Ell Paso, where for weeks he di-
rected the work of the revolutionary junta
in this country. He is now believed to be
in Northern California.
In January last Modesto Diaz was ar
rested by Detectives Talamantes and
Rico at the request of the Mexican gov
ernment and was held on suspicion for
several days while they were Investigate
ing his record.
The fact was developed that Diaz was
the head C the local junta ann that he
was the personal agent and representative
of Magon. Nothing, however could be
fastened on him that would warrant his
extradition to Mexico and he was re-
leased
A short time after this the first copy of
La Revolution was issued. 1t contained
many incendiary articles directed against
the Mexican and American governments.
President Roosevelt was denounced as
Dictator OF the Diaz type and his assas-
sination was advocated. Other issues fol-
lowed in regular order each of which
became more inflammatory.
Membership Large
Mexican residents of the United States
and particularly of Southern California
were called upon to contribute to the
funds of the junta to carry on the work
of the revolutionary party. Little by lit
tie the work was extended and through
the. publication of the revolutionary pa
per party was built up which is now
numbered at 10000. scattered through the
entire section south of the Tehachapi and
extending into Arizona New Mexico and
Texas.
Detectives Talamantes and Rico have a
list of the names of men who are sun
posed to be connected with the iunla
and each and every one of these men are
carefully shadowed and track kent of
their movements from day to day.
Through the detectives the government
officials at Washington have been kent
informed from time to time of the doines
of the junta in this city, and the infor
nation has been transmitted to the
Mexican government through the state
department.
1t was one of these reports that called
the attention of the department of JUS
tice to the revolutionary paper and it's,
incendiary utterances, and the order fol-
lowed to investigate its character. and if
found to be of the kind reported to sup
press it under the law prohibiting the
circulation of attacks upon the rulers of