The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1910-10-21
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down every Instruction, and to pun
ish with death it's instigators. The
revolutionary blood which flows thru
the blood of the mongrel people has
occasionally boiled and it has only
boiled to be shed.
Dlaz never asked quarter of any
man. The furry of unrest and the
chanting of the more intelligent OF
the people under the CALLING yoke OF
a tyranHical government has never
amounted to more than military ex-
ecutions and the exile of the man
who would lift his hand to defend
his property-not his rights, for no
man possesses any rights in this hap
penstance republic.
Dtaz has for lifetime been a man
of iron. The life of fellow or the
execution in the early days of dog
en- or hundred was merely a chap
ter in the story of warfare. That
the president was as brave as he was
determined is not to be doubted for
moment. When he was captured
some thirty years ago by an oppos-
ing force at Tampico, in the state of
Tamaulpus, his home, he soon sue
ceeded in making his escape and he
plunged into the sea at point near
La Barra and swan towards a Ger
man boat. He was rescued, and
from that day to this the people of
that nationality have always been
high in his favor.
Not alone has President Diaz &C.
cumulated one of the greatest for
tunes of the day, but there are a
hundred great land owners in Mexi-
co, who dominate vast territories as
large as all New England. The poems
on these haceiendas live practically
in slavery, and are never given an
opportunity to throw off the bondage
in which they are born.
The outside world knows but lit
tie of the true political chicanery of
Mexican politics, and we in the Uni
ted States seldom hear of the revolu-
lions which break out in all sections
of the republic. AS strange as it may
seem an important news item from
Paris, or an instruction in Morocco,
comes to us within few hours after
it happens. But the doors of the re-
public are closed to the news gather
ers, and almost practically so to the
great news agencies which serve so
we'll the metropolitan dailies of this
country. The Mexican government
owns the telegraph lines. A strict
censorship is exercised over every
thing that passes over the wires. CT
pher messages are not permitted ov-
er the lines of the lines of the Tele-
grafo Macdonald.
The writer recalls an Instruction
in the state of Coahuila in which sew
eral hundred poems were killed in
1907. The rurales lost a number of
men, but this splendid organization
is trained to battle and the hungry
men of the northern state of Mexico
were only fighting because they were
actually starving. Did the American
newspapers tell of the slaughter, af-
ter the poems, several thousand in
number, had torn up the railroad
track near Torreon? They did not;
simply because they could not get the
news. With the doors of the tele-
graph offices closed they had no OPP
portunity to get the news, and Amer
leans who have property interests in
the sister republic are loath to dis
cuss the real conditions-it really is
not healthy.
The Mexican government exercises
a secret surveillance in every state
which is more complete than any in
the old world. Every move made by
Bernardo Reyes, the present COVER
nor of the state of Leon, and form
er minister of war, or by any of his
friends is zealously watched and his
followers, members of the insurrec-
tionary party in every state in Mexico
are constantly under the eye of the
Diaz agents.
Governor Reyes resides in Mon
terey, which is the capitol of Nuevo
Leon, to which state he was sent
when his duplicity to the Diaz admin
istration was discovered. So strong
was Reyes with the military of the
republic, that Diaz, fearing that his
exile from the republic or summary
execution would precipitate crisis,
sent Reyes to Monterey, to be COVER
nor of the state of which that city
is the capital. General Reyes was
told by Diaz never to return to the
City of Mexico at his peril, and the
governor general took the tip. In
it might be said that Gov
ernor Reyes several years ago built
himself palace high upon the
overlooking the ia