Bisbee daily review., 1907-08-14
BREEDING TROUBLE FOR THEMSELVES
Old St. Louis Junta Breaches Dangerous Propaganda
 From That City.

| Fernando street is the headquarters of La Libertad, or Mexican Sons of
 Liberty, party organized for the overthrow of the present form of gov ernment of Mexico.
 At the head of this revolutionist
 organization is Ricardo Flores Magon, a Mexican bandit and outlaw for
 whom the Mexican government offers
 reward of $20,000 dead or alive.
 The personal agent and representa-
 tive of Magon in this city is Modesto
 Diaz, a cousin in many degrees re moved of General Porfirio Diaz. presi- dent of the Mexican republic.
 The organ of this revolutionary par
 ty Is a newspaper called eLa Revolu- cion, of which Modesto DiaZ is the
 editor and publisher.
 Back of the publication IS a junta
 composed of fifteen members of which
 Ricardo Magon is the chairman, his
 brother, Enrique Magon, vice chair man, and Modesto Diaz secretary and
 active manager.
 The junta is a thoroughly well org
 anized one and has membership of more than 200G0 Mexican laborers,
 self-styled patriots, they who are em- ployed in and near Los Angeles as laborers on railroads, canals and ir-
 rigation works, and iL this city as sec ton hands or street sweepers.
 The object of the organization is the overthrow of the Diaz govern ment, the assassination of President Diaz of President Roosevelt, and the turning of Mexico into a dictatorship with Ricardo Flores Magon as the
 head, with the influential members of
 the local jpnta as his advisers. Advocates Assassination.
 In La Revolucion the killing of President Diaz and of President Roosevelt is advocated. They are
 condemned in the language of the 1 junta because they have entered into
 conspiracy to oppress the Mex, can laborers in this country and rob them of their just dues as wage-earners. Attention is called in the inffamma- tory addresses printed in La Revolu-
 cion to the fact that Mexican labor
 CTS are employed as section hands
 at s1 per day while Americans are
 given from s1.75 to $2.25 per day for | the same work.
 | President Diaz is denounced as a
 murderer and a despoiler of homes,
 and President Roosevelt is accused I | conspiracy with President DiaZ to perpetuate the Diaz government and | to oppress the Mexican residents of | this country and keep them in | practical state of peonage.
 1 The attention of the department of justice at Washington has been called to La Revolucion, and the United | States attorney for southern Califor- mia has been instructed to inquire into | the existence of the so-called junta and the propagand'sts of the new lib
 eral party looking to the suppression l by law of the publication and the ar
 rest and prosecution, if found neces- sary, of the members of the iunta
 who are responsible for its issue. 1 The Mexican liberty league has l heen organized n this city for more i tilar a year. Its inception was from
 he brain of Ricardo Magon, who is | wanted in Mexico for treason and oth- CT high crimes against the govern
 ment. With h3s brother. Enrique, he attempted five years ago to organize ! 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 govern
 ment and made his escape to this country.
 For months he lived in Los Angeles
 under an assumed name and was final | ly discovered here by Detectives Tal-
 amantes and Rico of the local police force, but again he escaped the clutches of the law and went from this c.ty to Butte, Montana.
 From there Detective Talamantes traced him successively to St. Paul, Chicago, New York and New Orleans. From the latter city he went to Gal weston anl from there to Fl Paso, where for weeks he directed the work :, of the revolutionary junta in this country He is now believed to be tn northern California. ,, In January last Modesto Diaz was arrested by Detectives Talamantes and Ricardo at the request of the Mexican government, and was held on suspicion for several days while they were invest gating his record. The fact was developed that DiaZ was the head of the local junta and 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 released.
 4 short time after this the first copy of La Revolucion was issued. It contained many incendiary articles directed against the Mexican and the American governments. President Roosevelt was denounced as a dictat- or of the Diaz type and hts assassi- nation was advocated Other issues followed in regular order, each of which became more infammatory.
 Membership Large.
 Mexican residents of the United States, and particularly of southern California, were called upon to con tribute to the funds of the junta to carry on the work of the revolutionary party. Little by little the work was extended and through the publication of the revolutionary paper a party was built up which is Eow numbered at 10000, scattered through the en- tire section south of the Tehachapi and extending into Arizona, New Mex leo and Texas.
 Detectives Talamantes and Rico have a list of the names of men who are supposed to be connected with the junta, and each and every one of these men are carefully shadowed and