The Detroit times., 1910-11-14
Down on the Border You Feel You
Can Lick IS Mexicans and
Diaz's Subjects Believe
You Can.
Facts About People Who Lynched
Two Americans and Burned Stars
and Stripes.
By GEORGE sAlNT-AMouR.

over here from Ciudad Juarez TO work,
says.
III ii weren't for Texas, We could
f whip the United States
But when long, lean Texan-cow.
hoy. ra0cher, merchant or banker
meets Mex, the Mex does not cross
fhis fingers and hiss Uhe death sig
n mall. for the Texan says that one
Texan can clean up 10 peons--and tie
poems believe IT,
The homhre fears the Lone Star
state man, and the Lone Star state
man feels contempt for the peOn.
And so. while the MeXicans we're
rioting against Americans in the CITY
OF Mexico and otherwise showing
anger over a little patcr OF lynch
INK a Mex in Texas. there VAS not n
peep from the poems in these parts.
They were laying extremely low. in
deed
In Mexico City-which is well filed
with Americans, who run banks and
railroads and newspapers and the best
Khopg-not an American is afraid.
In fact, the people Of the American
north and west and the northwest
are probably more excited today
about the fiag-stamping stunt that oc-
cnrred in Mexico City, than the Amer
fcans who are on the SCene-but not
half so mad.
An Accurate Comparison.
An American. particularly a Texan,
loves n Mexican just about as much
rs a knocking bird loves a rartlesnake.
And the Mexican peon is just as
wary OF the Texan a the bird IS OF
N the snake.
Mexioans often Kill Americans
Y aiong the border-but the American
always gets IL in the back. Never.
never did a Mex stab Gringo With
his long handy knife from the front.
The Texas gun is quicker than the
Mexican knife although II must be
said that the Mexican knife is very
quick indeed The neon carries his
long knife inside his dirty shirt at
che back of his neck, and with a quick
move OF the hand he soon has the
sharp-pointed blade ready for bust
ness. Then. held as he holds II. with
B the butt end of the dirk against the
palm of his hand, he can drive It
clean through a man--and he always
twists n after it has entered 10 make
sure that the Gnngo is dead dead,
dead.
A Mexican (American definition is
greaser first, last and all the time.
And Rreasers are no good. They VIII
not work =tltev-drfnh toe much teauil-
la and mescal. and smoke too many
brown cigarets. Rather than work 70
h earn good grub. a Mexican viii sub
sIst on sugar cane. and thousands OF
them may lie seen throughout the Diaz
republic carrying hve-fOot-long pieces
Of cane in their hands. which they
4 suck. alternating the sweet stun with
puffs from their vile cigarets.
An American (Mexican definitioni
& Is a Gringo who thinks he Is lot
better than we are-and be will al
WAYS think SO unless we break the
4 strings on his banjo. lie can shoot
Y straight and he is pretty brave-Dut
ne hasn't all the bravery in the world,
and some day We will show him,
While a Texan. a border man. Is
genuinely courteous to women. he IS
not so very careful about the way he
treats the Mexican senorita (miss),
no matter how big or black her eyes;
and ne Is very careless about the way
he treats the Mexican sonora CNIrsJ.
4 His wide-brimmed hat does not sweep
wife or daughter.
"Useless, Hopeless and Lazy
CO.. John c. Upton, now a news
paper man at FL Paso, but who for
several years served in custom
house at Eagle Pass, has this 10 say
about hombres (Mexicans):
~rhey are useless. hopeless; they
are lazy and improvident. When Diaz
dies, look out The whole thing viii
fall to pieces Diaz. tyrant knows
where he is at. He knows that the
tyranny game is the only one which
can possibly have the right effect on
the greaser."
The coloners statement was well
borne out when Diaz came to Juarez
10 meet Taft. The Juarez people
who expressed so much hatred for
their president-emperor that he had
not dared CD visit them for 30 years.
bent the knee and bowed the head,
and in their own way ra%rahed for
the man whom they say Expresses
them.
Senior and Uncle Sam, for some rea.
son, do not love each other.
Sonora often works for mlssus. but
BESIDES her wages she Is positively
sure 10 Gritty away Jew NON6tliDli
or personal belongings which were
not included I'm the bargain she made
az the door In the morning when she
obtained her Job for the day.
And Americans say that no thici
an the face OF this earth is SO eX
Dpri. or ambitious, as the Mexican
fhicf. II is a fact that many house.
on the. border have barred windows
And N n also a fact that the Mexi
can sleight-of.hand operator uses {
pole from 10 TO 20 feet long with q
hook and pulls 4 into his own an
lawful possession between the bars
Baby carriages left on porches II
border towns disappear during th'
nieht. no matter how well lighted The
street may be-the moonlight is usual
/, 30 bright that a newspaper can cas-
III be read---and il Is not Americans
Who steal the perambulators.
But II you live in ri Pnso and wake
W IN tho morning to find your gocart
MISSING. take a trip TO Juarez. across
ne sllvery Rio Grande. which Is
muddy when II has any water In h
IA Az and you may find your little
IffIege IN n secondhand store. 20 be
Elp1ed 81 for peso. pesos or any
|||cr psal can be obtained. The pur-
0.He price was nothing, The selling