The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-02-21
POLITICAL REFuE'':;'' !
TALKS OF Nix
l.. Gutierrez de Lara I
on Slavery in Soutl
Republic.
BLAMES PRESIDENT nj
FOR PRESENT COM
Claims Present Head Of
ment Will Be Remoy
Next Election

L, Gutierrez dc Lara. a MsIh
litIcal refugee, lcctured to ami
that crowded Unity hall SUM =
on 'he subject of ''Barbarous
DE Lara gained distinction ID +
VINO piloted John *. Turnc,,
American magazine, throuql,
and assisted the writer vorv IN
IN obtaining information of =
there, a series Of articles in
which subsequently appearcd
publication named. For bis nI
enterprise De Lara was arresff
Angeles at the request of tbaf'
government and was TO he &c
but a strong protest was mad.
socialists OF this country an{.
released. He is now making J.
tour ON his way 10 Washingtf
be goes to inaugurate, if pf
movement IN congress in beha
oppressed IN Mexico.
Rev. William Thurston Brs
sided over the meeting and ill
the lecturer. In the course q
dress Mr.. De Lara said that d
half years ago three revoIutionI
arrested in Los Angeles. ca
charge OF violating the neutrat
For two years. De Lara said. h
were kept in Jail without tri
eral times they were released, +
always re-arrested. Eventual
were taken to Arizona, tried I
victed and sentenced TO eight
aud now they are serving III
Of imprisonment IN the prison
encc. AriZ. Some time ago The
strike IN the copper mines aI
Mex. Eight thousand men ID
asking for less hours of labor al
pennies more in wages. The
tendent Of the mine crossed
into Arizona and organized a
three hundred men TO oncll til
That was n violation Of the a
laws. De Lara claimed. hut
those men was ever prosecuted.
in various places in this count
cans arc confined for violating
tralitY laws. said Mr.. Dc Ii
four hundred MeYicans who VIC
IN the United States were den
Mexico and shot BY the soldic'
Conditions OF slavery.
Mr.. Dc Lara asserted that no
ancient times could compare ,
slavery conditions now existing
leo. Men aud women were put
cry by labor contract. The
| lasts eighty days aud on tht
tious the men aud women,
worked day and night, are L
the ovcrseers into subiectiou
sands and thousands of uien an
are suffering under those ct
Every ono. from the highest
to the lowest. from The pres
the Republic 10 the lowest d
was engaged in the slavery
said the speaker. Even modes
women had been DESTROYED,
lecturer cited a number of pol
cldcnts. Millions of dollars q
into the pockets of the oiiiceI
| government through the slavf
ness. Entire towns arc being
into slavery, n
Tithing and PRIVILEGED Oh
( The lecturer then delved int
revolutionary movements ~
which. be claimed. that in
instance were not only against
crument of Spaiu, but against
ilcged classes in Mexico, The
communities were at that time
iIeged class. They produced
but only prayed, and pray
| PRAYED. The pcasantry had to
per cent tithipg (sounds faRll
taxation To the government,
rent for land. TO the classes.
sides the religious communiiif
WAS the arlstocracy. This VI
up of government officers. and
them were land owners aud ire
pcasantrv in the same way:
Mr.. Dc Lara gave high I
President Santa Ana and \
| Juarce. He CONDEMNED l'resld'
son Of this country for his att
| wards Mexico and for hls a
ward slavery; and claimed
children of the men who fougl
| Civil war here arc now IN =
,hc factories, in the shops, IN
! .El,-- t,'aEnG
After dwelling on several
| lbo constitution Of Mexico, ono
restored the land 10 the peophs
Lara blamed President pia1
gardiug that provision OF the q
"But.' he said, 'thcre Is 2
dous political movement sgai
in Mexico. Al the peXt clcctiu
bo defeated and the people "
own the country.