Arizona republican., 1910-08-04

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to it has been furnished from this
side of the line. They say they can
not go to Mexico to conduct a move
metn in person for they are too well
known and would assuredly be ar
rested and shot in a very summary
manner
Their arrest and conviction in this
country they believe was brought
about through influence of American
capital now invested in Mexico, which
finds it to its advantage to perpet-
uate the Diaz regime. In other words,
it is pure business with that class
of Americans to affiliate with the
powers that be In defending their
right under the American constitu-
ton to do as they have done and
expect to continue doing, the rev.
oiutiorists say that political refugees
frlm other nations than Mexico have
taken similar action in assailing the
institutions of their native countries,
and there has been no interference
with these privileges. Just so long
as they keep within the limits of
actual armed invasion they claim the
right Of free speech~even to the cir
culatIon of their literature advising
rebellion in Mexico, providing. of
course, that they can get the literature
into circulation Asked what they
hoped to accomplish through the
means of a revolution, Magon and
VilIarreal replied that they wanted to
obtain free speech, a free PRESS a
ereo. ballot and the abolition of slaV-
cry. These things, they claim, are
guaranteed by the Mexican constitu-
ton, but through the despotic admin
istration of President Diaz are now
denied They would prefer peace
full revolution at the polls but can
not get a free ballot or free speech
so they believe the only revolution
that can prove successful is by arm
ed force. They seem to have no quar-
rel with the constitution of their gov
ernment and believe in its doctrines
as they interpret them, but insist that
as the government is administered,
the doctrines are perverted and the
guarantees of the constitution are in
effectual.
Speaking of free speech, they said
chances to oppose the influence of the
present regime and point to the recent
incarceration of the opposition candi-
date for president. In respect of
free ballot, they say that at the re-
cent election hundreds and hundreds
were Jailed for daring to vote against
the administration and intimated that
other hundreds would have been had
they voted as they felt. Regarding
slavery, they say there is a vast
population now held in peonage that
is nothing short of actual slavery,
and they cannot be liberated except
by the will of the president or of an
armed revolution that will make ef-
fective the guarantees of the constitu-
tion.
The three Mexicans just released
were convicted in Tombstone, Cochise
county, having been brought here for
trial from Los Angeles, where they
were arrested. So far as known here
there are no further indictments
against them in Arizona, but II is
understood that there are lndlct-
ments hanging over them in San An
tonic which was at one time, base
Of operations. During their residence
in Los Angeles. before their arrest
they were very active and say they
have a large following there which
| is in sympathy with the movement
! they represent. 1t is that following
that invites their return to Los An
geles and plans big demonstration
| in their honor. Asked if they would
make Los Angeles their seat of op-
erations hereafter, they said that as
far as they could say at this time
! they probably would do so. Having
a large friendly following there they
believe they can spread their doc
trines more effectively and do sc
fearlessly in the belief that they are
within their rights funder American
Law.