Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-21
MONSTER mass meeting to pro-
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II "DE LARA DEEENSE LEAlIDE'.
! A MONSTER mass meeting to pro
! "a test against the deportation of L.
- Gutierrez de Lara, the Mexican
Liberal now in the county Jail, charged
with being an alien and an anarchist,
will be held in Simpson auditorium Sat
urday night. The meeting will be un-
der the auspices of the De Lara Defense
| league, a non-political and non-secta-
rian organization which sprang into ex-
istence yesterday. Mrs. Mary Garbutt
is receiving funds for the leaguers.
Further organization of the league will
| be made Saturday night, when plans
for De Lara's defense will be outlined
in full.
At the mass meeting John Kenneth
| Turner, author of "Barbarous Mexico,
the American Magazine serial which Is
said to be largely responsible for Mex
ico's animosity towards De Lara, will
| be one of the principal speakers. Mr.,
Turner will relate some inside history
of his trip with De Lara into the for
bidden parts of Mexico, and will, he
says, tell of dozens of instances when
De Lara's life was endangered by the
acts of officials of the southern repub-
lie. Others, among them Mr.. de Lara
attorneys, will speak for their client.
Defense Hinges on Derinitlon
So far De Lara's attorneys-Clarence
| Nelly of the firm of Goldberg &5 Nelly
and A. r. Holston-have confined them
selves most to securing authorities on
| Socialism and Anarchy. 1t will be the
effort of the attorneys, they say, to
prove that Socialism and Anarchy are
as widely separated as the poles, and
| that Socialism means the establishment
of more government and that Anarchy
means the destruction of all govern
ment. They say they will have no diff
Guilty in proving that De Lara is not an
| Anarchist.
Funds for De Lara's defense are pour
| ing in since the announcement yester-
day morning that he is penniless and is
dependent for support upon those who
| believe in his innocence. Half dozen
| petitions are now being circulated
| through the city, and are receiving
signers as fast as possible protesting
] against the treatment of De Lara.
! It is understood that a large number
of the prominent ministers in Los An
| geles will take De Lara's case as a
| theme for their sermons Sunday, and
| that comparisons will be made between
! the Mexican Liberals plight and the
fate meted out to Francisco Ferrer, the
! Spanish educator who was legally muir
dered in Spain last week.
Through his attorneys yesterday De
Lara made the following statement
De Lara Talks
"If I am released from prison, which
| I believe will be the case, and If 1 am
not deported to my death in Mexico, 1
shall at once make application for my
first papers of naturalization as a citi-
zen of the United States. I believe I
have been in this country long enough
| to ask for first papers, and I believe If
I secure those papers I will be without
| the reach of the hired agents of MeXi-
can tyrants who seek to destroy me.
The United States authorities will see
justice done"
| Secret Service Operative Hazen, in
charge of the local office, said yester-
day that although he had not been in
| structed to take any action in the De
Lara case, he is watching 1t carefully.
He says the matter is in the hands of
the immigration officers, and therefore
| he cannot take action unless instructed
| to do so by Chief Willie.
Practically every union and member
| of union in Los Angeles is openly es-
pousing De Lara's cause. Word was
received from the typographical union
last night to the effect that resolutions
protesting against De Lara's impris-
onment and deportation will be offered,
! and in all proba ability passed, at the
next meeting of the local. Resolutions
of similar nature also will be offered
at the next meeting of the Central La
bor council Friday.
Law Is Cold BIooded
"If it be shown that De Lara is an
Anarchist and an alien he will be de-
| ported. He will be sent across the
! border, delivered to the Mexican au
thorities no matter how horrible the
| fate that awaits him there" said
! former official of the United States
I immigration department who was in
! the service in an eastern city several
years ago.
"The department deals with law and
cold, hard facts. There is no senti-
within sight of the border line and
rolled into a ditch, as was Ferrer last
week, it will make no difference in the
| law governing such cases.
"I have been often asked why politi-
cal refugees are not given the same
protection under the American flag
that they are given under the British
| flag. That is a question for Wash
ington to answer
IF De Lara is a Socialist he has
but to prove it. I will admit, how
ever, that / know of men in the immi-
grafton service who are so densely ig-
norant of such matters that they do
not know that Socialism and Anarchy
are as far apart as the poles. They
do not know that Anarchy stands for
abolition of all government and that
Socialism makes or is accused of MAX
ing for more government; that there
isn't the remotest resemblance between
Anarchy and Socialism. The two cults
are never confused save in the minds
of ignorant persons and in the coll
umns of vicious and misleading news
papers.
Says Death Is Certain
"I am a Republican but I believe
every man has a right to his own be-
liefs, be he American Democrat So
cialist or Prohibitionist, or a Mexican
Liberal. I am certain De Lara will