The Boise citizen. (Boise, Idaho) 1906-1910, 1909-02-19
MEXICAN PATRIOTS Held


MEXICAN PATRIOTS IN AMERICAN PRISONS.
Through very interesting illustrated magazine published
TUCSON Arizona named The Border civilized world
warned of political condition Mexico which will surprise
ought horr those Americans who have regarded Daz as popu
lar leader and Mexico the up grade among civilized nations
incidentally government seems to be involved in the alleged
plans OF Daz make Mexico paradise for labor eXpoers and
hell for laborers, says The Public.
The first clear glimpse of the Mexican situation in this view of
given by John Murray the editor OF The Border in the gse OF
magazine story But his story of actual experience and obesr
vaon with nothing Of fiction about Of and
places and minor incidents invented the better bring
the larger facts 1t from this story that Mexico
der despotm of the order Although its constitution
free ours Daz utterly dsegards the freedom sdisre
CARDS them to such extent to have abolished free elections
Only party tolerated in politics. and that the party OF Diaz
Consequently the Liberal pardenied its rights under the cons
onas of necessity become revolutionary party 1t this siua
that has entanged the United States and laid government
open charges of cooperating with Daz and merely
of neutrality between nations but because Diaz serving large
American investment interests IN Mexico by ppessng labor or
ganzaons and keeping down the starvation point As Mr.
Murray says quoting American investor whom he introduces
his story with evident fidelity to fact You buy more labor
in Mexico for less money than any place in the world
The which involved the United States that of
Ricardo Flores Magon president OF the Liberal party Antonio
Varea secretary and other members of the Liberal party
ganzaon of Mecoa of them refugees They arrested
Arizona considerably more than year ago and taken to Los Angeles
where they have been held jail since Their friends believe
that the purpose send them secretly the Mexican border
where they would be seized and assassnaed by the country police
the armed guard found everywhere upon which Da relies TO keep
himself power The formal charge against these is violation
of neutrality laws ret application for bail has been Denied
and the prisoners have been off from communication with their
fiendeven lawyer employed by their friends having it is com
planned been denied access them
difficult charged capital
denied bail in this pending trial To ncarcerae them
incomuncado astounding though
dinary If the complaints in behalf of these prisoners
any implies interest prosecuting Them coupled with in
uece enough reach to the Department of Justice Wash
ngton bench of of the United States We
shall hope that the people learn before long from
vesgao Washington whether those complaints well found
and they what justification there for the action
the Attorney General? The surely furnishes all the elements
of newspaper story whether the complaints
Newspaper silence therefore if continues cannot
suspicion only that the complaints but also that
Mexican political and the American capiasc influences that
said have reached have reached also into the
sanctums of newspapers.