East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-01-05
INSIDE VIEW OF
MEXICAN REVOLUTION.

A glimpse behind the scenes of the
opera bouffe revolution, which a few
INDECENT swashbucklers recently at
in newspaper article written bv Will
liam F. Curtis, the noted newspaper
| correspondent. which appeared in
Chicago and Washington papers.
The alleged revolution was taken
quite seriously by many persons but
to those who are familiar with its his
tory and the men behind it the whole
affair was laughable. The primary
object of the agitation was to part
poor MeXicans, who possessed more
credulity than common sense, from
the little money they possessed. The
conspirators are pow languishing in
prison, having been convicted or
awaiting trial or crimes ranging from
murder to petty thievery.
THE swindle." says Mr.. Curtis,
gave brilliant results. I have reason
to believe that their monthly receipts
were not less than $4,000 to $4,000 in
gold for at least three months"
Some Of the important parts of Mr..
Curtis article follow:
The real leaders of the movement
were two brcthers-Ricardo Flores
MagCn and Enrique Flores Magon.
For reasons that would take long to
tell. after suffering continuous "perse-
cution" from the police. and the
! prosecuting officers of the criminal
courts of Mexico, they managed to
| escape across the border where they
fell in with an unfortunate and credu-
lous Mexican named Camilo Arriaga
and two women who had formerly
published a paper called Nespers in
the CITY of Mexico.
They appeared at st. Louis, where
| they began the publication of paper
called La Regeneration, which was is
sued at irregular intervals. and con-
taine1 high sounding editorials in fa-
v0r of '4iberty" and the regeneration
OF the Mexican republic.
Their patriotic clamor did not
arouse much enthusiasm; the opprOs-
scd millions of Mexico would not be
| electrified; the urgent necessities of
| the editors were not relieved, and
therefore they decided to adopt an
other sort Of tactics. They abandon
ed their high-sounding apostrophes to
liberty. and fiercely attacked the per-
sonal character of the most prominent
and wealthy men of Mexico, including
Vice President Corral and Enrique
| Creel, who has recently been appoint
| ed ambassador to the United States.
| Governor Esperon, one of the leading
men of Mexico and the object of their
most vilanous attacks, appeared on
the scene and had them arrested for
libel.
The fact that they were arrested by
a plutocrat, and that sort of thing
gave the "iunta" the opportunity that
had been lacking all this time, to pose
as martyrs for liberty-and they
printed in mimeograph more than
10000 circular letters which were
spread all over Mexico, appealing for
sympathy and funds. Their appeal
met with most generous responses;
and an era OF prosperity began for
the imDecunious adventures; money
contributions in small sums COM
menced to pour in on them.
The leaders INDUCED in some out
side proceedings before the coup
d'etat was sprung. AS consequence
Aguirre is in Jail for highway rob-
berry and burglary at the Villa Jimi-
nez a ranch in the state of Cohuila
where he made raid for plunder
Sarabia was arrested in Cohuila also
Villareal is now in Jail In FL Paso. Ht
murdered a man H. Mexico and flee
across me border. where he was ar.
rested. Several others are in jail OF
one side Of the river or the other, and
the rest are scattered.