The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-15
Americans Are Paid More Than
Natives for Same Work.
THIS BRINGS HATRED.
PrOVOkes Outbreak Against the
Foreigners There.
Other Items of General Interest
to Kansas Readers.

Ottawa, Kan, Nov. 15.-E. S. Dunn,
former Ottawan who for years has
been a resident of Old Mexico and in
close touch with internal affairs in that
country, today declared that trouble be-
tween foreigners, especially Americans,
and natives long had been imminent,
and that he was not at all surprised to
hear of the outbreak in Mexico City
and other places this week.
Labor troubles, said Mr.. Dunn
when pressed for a f1rst-hand explain
alton of the riots. I'm every vicinity
where Americans and MeXiCans work
side by side, there is always a bitter
enmity beneath the surface that is
any provocatiOn. In this case the burn
ing of that man Antonio Rodriguez at
Rock Springs, Texas, as played up by
the yellow newspapers before the eyes
OF the floating population of Mexico
City, would easily suffice to provoke
q sudden outbreak of the labor trou-
bles between the American working
men and the Mexican day labOrers."
According to Mr.. Dunn, Mexican and
American capitalists are willing to pay
more money to the Americans than they
pay to the greasers, because of the
greater amount of work achieved by the
Americans. This is liable to cause open
trouble, and invariably brings about
friction.
There was a big strike in the min
Mexico some time ago, which illus
trates the exact situation which this
present trouble probably springs from"
said Mr.. Dunn. "a large crew of Mex
leans struck. and not only refused
themselves to work, but refused to all
low the Americans to work. President
Diaz's methods of stopping trouble We're
amply illustrated In that strike. He
prObed the affair to discover the ring
leaders in the trouble. There were
seven of them and when he had dis
covered that they were the guilty ones,
he took them out to one end of town
and shot them"
Mr.. Dunn's conversant interrupted
him to admit the peculiar effectiveness
of this method of correcting labor trou-
bles' and again assumed a listening
look.
II presume that exactly these same
methods will be employed to stop the
present difficulty. The leaders will be
led to the city limits, and then quietly
shot. remember of a trouble we had
once at Tampico, Texas" continued Mr..
Dunn. "A Mexican policeman and an
American became drunk together one.
night, and the policeman was hauled
into justice court the next morning to
answer to the charge of drunkenness
at his post. The American was taken
along to witness against him. Without
a word of warning, while the police
man was witnessing in his own de-
tense, the inebriated American drew his
gun and killed him. Was there a long
trial for the American? Did the justice
who had seen the shooting-allow the
matter to be dragged through the
courts for months?"
He probably did, answered Mr..
Dunn'S cOnverSant.
"He did not answered Mr.. Dunn
himself. 1.-THE drunken American was
ordered punished Immediately by the
justice, and when the officers had fin
ished their task of furnishing him, they
put away their smoking guns and
buried him. It all happened in a cou-
pie of hours and it was a sample of
some of Mexico's methods of admins
tering justice. That's probably the way
President Diaz will choose to stop these
disgraceful riots!''