Evening star., 1907-10-19
"DOWN WITH D|Az"
Says Senorita Gonzalez ExiIed
Mexican Rev0IutiOnist.
ST. LOUIS HEADQUARTERS
Publishes Liberal Paper and Sends
1t Over Border.
GOVERNMENT TAKES ACTION
Reaches Out Arm and Arrests Revo-
lutionary Leaders in This Coun-
try on Various Pretexts.
GOVERNMENT TAKES ACTION

exile from his domains who lives in ST.
LOUIS and spends her time planning the
downfall Of the white-haired soldier-presi-
dent, who, she says. is a 'despot worse
than the car" This senorita's name is
Andrea VjIarraaI Gonzalez, and just now
she is the virtual head of the Mexican
revolutionary junta.
The term revolutionist means more than
q creed south of the United States. 1t
Indicates a profession.
II was written many years ago that in
every country inhabited by the Latin
American there should be two parties
One party must be composed of those
who stand behind the government and
are ready to spill their blood for the
ruler The other faction puts in its life
ScoWlnS at the administration and wait
ing for chance to spill the executives
blood.
Behind this desire are two inspirations
One is romance. a trait strong In the
Latin character. and which fires the revo-
lutioniSts brain with visions OF becoming
a great hero and leaving the name of
Savior of his Country or "Liberator'
10 go laundering down the ages. The
other is love of military display, and
all the stage effects which go with war
fare. il not the love of lighting itself
In Central America tho professional
revolutionist has some show of standing
thar part OF the world can hold office long
enough to get their chairs warm. They
do not seem to understand the art of
gauiZing their support. and one day the
ruler wakes up to hear his former con-
sttuents hurrahing for his erstwhile Sec
retary Of something or other who is await
ing him at the palace door with a large
knife.
Not So in Mexico.
But in South America. notably Ven
ezueIa. where the little iron man Castro
keeps order with a big club, the revolt
maker is not so successful while in Iexi-
CO ne doesn't succeed at all. Watched by
innumerable spies and always in some
scrape other, he is finally forced to quit
the country, revolutiOnist still, and he
IuTls his defiance across the border.
While these facts about the rsvolutionist
are set forth in the masculine gender, it is
merely for convenience sake. for this is
a story about a woman rebeS who is just
much to be reckoned with as her
brothers in the cause.
Senorita Andrea became leader pro .em
after President Diaz's long arm had
reached across the border and shut the
prison doors upon her fellow "liberales''
who operated the junta unmo ested in ST
Louis for several years. Her brother An
tonic Nilarrcai. who is secretary of the
junta: Ricardo Flores Magon. president of
the 'HberaleS;' Juan Sarabia the vice
president. and Enrique Flores Magon were
the moving spirits in the work of raising
funds and sympathy for the cause while
Andrea wrote seething articles for revo-
lutionary paper which she distributed from
San Antonio, Tex.
Finally the Diaz government got tired
of being called names, and remembered
that Villarreal, the Wagons and Sarabia
We're wanted In Mexico for libel The
four We're arrested in st. Louis, gave bail
but jumped their bonds and fed. This was
year and half ago.
To Be Extradited.
VillaTeal and Ricardo Magon have just
been captured at Los Angeles Cal,
whence they will be extradited to st.
Louis, and eventually to Mexico. At the
same time l.. Gutierrez de Lara, a Mex
lean novelist, has been arrested at the
same place on a charge Of robbery pre-
ferred In his own country. His friends
say that the charge is merely pretext to
bring a rebel back to Mexico for punish
ment.
Juan Sarabia is in Castle Tina prison.
said to be the worst prison In Mexico. Ac-
cording to the junta members Juan was
kidnapped with his cousin Manuel SaraHa.
another officer of the liberal party, and
carried across the line by Mexican spies,
employed by the Diaz administration.
Manuel succeeded in making such a fuss
that he aroused the sympathy of Ameri-
cans at Sonora and he was set free and
He is still at liberty.
Meanwhile Senorita Andrea is holding
the fort nobly. defying and denouncing
Diaz with her pen and calling upon the
American people who care to pick up
her strenuous newspaper and translate
the Spanish to come to the aid of her
stricken cOuntrymen. She is particular
ly bitter over the manner in which the
tunta members have been bounded and
over the fact that the United States will
In tak
them back. She cannot speak English
very well, but she makes up for that
with emphatic gestures and by flashing
lightning from her dark. shining eyes
They will take them back to Mexico
and to that awful prison. she said
speaking OF the junta members whom
Diaz is trying TO extradtte. 1T is mon
struus' Where is there justice? Here
In this free country surely there should
be. But no; II is not so! Are justice
and liberty myths in every country In
every spot OF the universe? Do you
think there are tyrants on Mars, 100?
"In this country the press Is the people:
In Mexico the press is the government
No liberal paper Is allowed TO exist Diaz
our terrible despot, will not permit us to
tell tie truth or defend ourselves. 1t IS
natural that we are exiled now. because
We defended our rights and fought for the
good Of our laboring classes who need our
aid So much.
our people are oppressed they work
TOT q lew cents = Gay ana llNG IN poverty
and dirt. How can they ever be good
citizens unless their conditions OF life
are changed
Denounces DiaZ.
'Tu thirty years OF this so-ca led Mexi-
can peace we have seen more dead people
than thirty years OF war could destroy.
love the revolution better than the peace
which has cost Mexico so much
1T may be that we shall never win"
she said sadly in closing the interview
But We shall not cease to accuse Diaz
before our Countrymen and before all
the world. He has killed law, liberty and
the rights OF citizens Some charge that
We are agitators because of our Indian
blood But the great Juarez. our best
president, was AN Indian. 1t was he who
wrote the constitution of Mexico which
DiaZ is tramping under foot every day
1t was he. too. who dared to execute the
usurPer. MaXimllian.
MANY persons think that the pros
perity Of Mexico is due to the government
OF Diaz. The liberal party denies this
Mexico has been made prosperous by its
natural fertility and by the large amounts
of money invested in its mines and other
Industries by Americans and Europeans
Rome was prosperous under the tyrant
Nero But the people We're slaves, and
the people of Mexico are slaves today