The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-12-23
TYRANNY, SLAVERY, OFFICIAL MURDER AND MURDER
BY THE MASTER THAT'S bARbAROUS MEXICO TODAY
Killing of Slaves and Execu-
ton of Labor Strikers
Calmly Admitted by Am
erican and Mexican News
paper Organs of President
Diag.

fldIGu lHe vi AliCi ittii
Magazine in the edition issued to.
day. They base their statements on
reports of conditions which have
reached them since the series of
articles on "Barbarous Mexico
was begun.
Aging Diaz is surrounded by
fellow autocrats, and the govern
ment of Mexico is as bad as the
government of the United States
would be il the Standard Oil Co.
the sugar trust and great railroads
were members of the president s
cabinet and had helped him to
control the government. They
are all wise, educated and skillful
men, but have no sense of respon'
sibility to the people. Whole
families, declares the article, are
being shipped to Yucatan and Ia
basco by Mexican financiers to
work as practical slaves on the
plantations.
Rafel Sevilla telegraphed to
Jose Mantilla regarding the need
for labor, the following, according
to the article:
first shipment; would take 80 fam.
lilies.
acknowledgement % families
besides, and awaiting decision of
planter of Teapa to take over 10
more families.
Bulnes-Awaits five families for
which he has made arrangements.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS to know
conditions to see if convenient.
The article quotes the Los An
geles Times, friendly tot Diaz,
which, in pointing out the in
Gucements offered to foreign cap
ital in Mexico, said:
sit is we'll understood, al
though not law, that man who
interferes with another man in
his work in Mexico is in serious
danger of being placed up against
a wall at sunrise and shot. Presi-
dent Diaz has been firm in his
stand to protect foreign capital that
Is developing the country. This, of
course, adds much to the safety of
investments in Mexico
A writer in the Mexican Herald
is quoted as hearing a planter say:
"When you got them they're
yours ard have to do what you
want them to do; If they don't YOU
CAN KILL THEM"
Diaz, says the American, is driv-
ing from Mexico or imprisoning all
those who oppose him. Before the
state election, November 7, 1909, in
Yucatan, 500 persons who opposed
Diaz in the campaign were sent to
the penitentiary. Papers were sup
pressed and printing offices raided
Come" says correspondent of
the American, land see hundreds of
armed men try to force people into
silence. Come and see the indie
pendent candidate for governor pur-
sued as a wild beast for daring to
buck against the official candidate
Imagine the president of the
United States interfering in this
drastic manner with the freedom of
election in Illinois or Oregon. Yet
Mexico was called republic and
its constitution was modelled upon
ours"
The Americans article tells of
the coming presidential election in
Mexico due next summer. DiaZ, in
1907, declared that he would not be
a candidate for the presidency
again, but lately he has come for
ward with soft phrases, declaring
that he would yield to the public
demand and accept another nomina-
ton, Diaz, who is 70 years of age,
has chosen Ramon Corral, the vice
president of Mexico, to run with
him again. General Bernardo Reyes
was so popular that clubs and So
cieties sprang up everywhere to
advance his nomination for the
vice presidency, but Corral HAD
previously worked hand in glove
with DiaZ and therefore Reyes mys-
teriously withdrew, though the ar
ticle declared that a word from
him would have produced the most
powerful revolution in 80 years.
Today Reyes is in Europe on q
government mission which presum-
ably takes him out of the vice pres
idential campaign, Reyes is popu
lar because he has always opposed
the government ring and the en-
ploitation of the country. He has
been practically exiled from
Mexico.
A few weeks ago Celso S. Cortez
an officer of a Reyist club, was i'm
prisoned for saying that the re-elec.
ton of Corral would be dishonor-
able TO Mexico In spite of Reyes
absence the campaign for his nomi-
nation goes on. Army officers who
favored Reyes were sent to out-of-
the-way posts.
The list of newspaper men who
have opposed Oiaz and who are
now in prison is a long one and il
is estimated in the article that %
journals have been stopped in thc
last two months. Francisco
Marino, an editor of Guanaiaut0.
was imprisoned because he signcd
protest In favor of the victims
of Official prosecutions, and not
only was he imprisoned, but like
wise his wife. She gave birth to
n child while in Jail, and, because
of i'll treatment, the child died
soon afterward The editors of FL
Anti-Re-electionista were arrested
because they published an article
bIth0tNt w tllltltU w nat IL
the mystery of the greeting be.
tween Taft and Diaz?" The editors
the advertising men, Is printers
and three girls were jailed.
Tho Mexican Herald reported re-
Gently that IA ncwsboys were held
at tho central police station be-
cause they refused to seei certain
political newspaper. The boys, to
escape arrest, bought copies of the
paper as usual every morning and
then went around the corner and
tore them up. The spirit of protest
against the government Is SO strong
among the common people that the
ncwshoys laughed at the persons
who asked for pro-Diaz papers, and
would offer only opposing news