The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-12-19
TRUSTS CAUSE OF. TROUBLE
 IN MEXICO Exiled Prisoner Says Financial Interests Are Sucking His
 Cou,try Dry This GOvernmentUsed as Tool in Aiding the Tyranny
 of Diaz
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 Washington, Dec. 19-Senor Don Juan Sanchez Azcona, one time stu dent at Heidelberg and the Univer- sity of Paris, former newspaper own CT, Mexican Congressman and person al friend of Porfirio Diaz, who is n. W in the District of Columbia jail awaiting extradition proceedings, on what is alleged to be trumped-up charge Of "swindling'' gives a strik- ing insight into political conditions in Mexico, in his own story of how ard why he became a revolutionist. The story is here repated, exactly as he tuld it. He spoke to a represen- tauve of the United Press through ar interpreter. Though he is fami- Ear with the French, German, Ita1- ian and Spanish languages, he knows no English.
 Copyright 1910. by the United Press
 Associations: by Juan
 Sanchez Azcona.)
 If the people of the United States could realize what has been done to Mexicans by their government during the past ten years. the present Amer ican protection. which keeps Porfirio would be withdrawn and within a few months, weeks perhaps. a new government, which would be of the people. rcrld be installed.
 am a revolutionist. It is for that reason and no other that I am in jail. I am charged with "swindling" but all Mexico knows that I am inno- cent. Mexico knows also, that if the Cn ted States grants my extradition I VIII be shot by the soldiers of Diaz. And will not be the first.
 This government is being used as a tool. The treaty is being employed to give Diaz and his advisers the whip hand ever men who have dar- ed |" .rpose tyranny. American of ficials nave been made to see things fin the wrong light. I can only hope rat. in my own case, justice will come soon. The entire dissatisfaction in Mexico is due to the trusts. They appress. They rob. They even mur- Ger when they think murder is nec- despicabIe ends. They control prac- t'cally all of the finances of Mexico and they also control Diaz. The heads of the Mexican trusts occupy places in the Mexican cabinet. It is not so much against DiaZ that the people are rising. as it is against the trusts. I. myself, believe that Diaz allows sel1ors. I believe this because Diaz is not very wealthy. He has stolen of course, but not nearly so much as other Presidents we have had.
 The Uuited States, as a government is popular with the people of Mexico. They believe that the Mexican trusts are products of the American trusts. I myself think that the country is asleep. A fair investigation will con- vince it that the financial interests are sucking Mexico dry.
 I charge that two members of the cabinet of Diaz. Senor Corral, secre- tary of the interior, and Senor Linn sunally responsible for ruc', "e the present trouble. Both are powerful in the Mexican trusts. Both>~nope to succeed to the Pres dency when Diaz dies and I believe he will die before many months. It is due to these men that I am exiled from my own It is because of the things tr at they represent the things they stand for and has persuaded Diaz to stJni for, that I ann revolutionist.
 I 1,ecame a revolutiOnist because 1 want to see Mexico a Republic in fact instead of in name. became rev. oiutionist because want to see Mex stead of being robbed and oppressed at every turn.
 I became revolutionist because l want every man to have chance to attain the Presidency as against the one man reign that now exists.
 For years I hoped that all this might be brought about without | dshed through the medium of the tal;ct But the ballot is a farce in N exicO.
 Madero, my friend and school-mate, was nominated for the presidency af- ter D;az had himself stated that he had taught his people Democracy and would be glad to see them govern themselves Madero would have been elected. Everywhere he went he was acclaimed. Diaz knew he would be elected so a few days before the election, last June, he had him ar rested. charged with insulting the Pres dent of Mexico. The Mexican law prohibits any man under police charges from running for office. Ma dero was kept in jail until the elec- lions were over. Then he was re- leased on s6oO0 bail and fled the country When Madero was arrested many of the leaders of his parties were also thrown into jail by the DO lice. A warrant was issued for my ar nf on