Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-04
RE REvOLUTIONISTS TO
ARRIVE HERE TODAY
Great Crowd Will Greet Magon,
ViIIareaI and Rivera, Who
Are Out of Prison

Ricardo Flores Magon, Antonio Villa
real and Liberado Rivera, the Mexican
revolutionists who were arrested first
nearly three years ago, were released
| from the penitentiary at Florence,
Ariz., yesterday morning. They will ar
rive in Los Angeles at 1:3O this after
noon, and a great crowd of friends and
sympathizers will meet them at the
Arcade station. A mass meeting will
be held for their benefit in Labor Tenn
pie auditorium Sunday evening. Magon
will be one of the speakers. 1t will be
his first speech before a Los Angeles
audience.
John Kenneth Turner the magazine
writer whose recent articles arraigning
the present administration in Mexico
attracted much attention, is coming to
Los Angeles with the party. He will
be one of the speakers. Job Hartman
and several other labor leaders will be
heard also.
When the news that Magon, Vlllareal
and Rivera had been released reached
Los Angeles yesterday rumors were cir
culated that warrants had ben sworn
out for their arrest and that the papers
would be served as soon as the party
arrived here. Both United States Mar
shall Leo Youngworth and United States
District Attorney A. I. Mccormick de
MED any knowledge of such warrants.
The arrest of the men in this city three
years ago was made on warrants issued
in Arizona.
SERVED FOURTEEN MONTHS
The reVolutionists were imprisoned al
Florence, Ariz., fourteen months ago.
They were convicted of violation of the
neutrality laws. Their terms ended at
10 o'clock yesterday morning. Turner,
MagOn and Villareal went to Phoenix
yesterday, arriving there at $3.50 p. IN.
Rivera left the train at Tempe, Ariz.,
to join his family. Later he joined his
comrades at Phoenix and the party left
that city last night for Los Angeles
Magon and Villareal declared yester-
day in an interview that their plans
had not been altered by their imprison-
ment. They asserted that their atti-
tude toward the Mexican government
and its methods, and their opposition
to its institutions. remain unchanged
They said that under the present des-
potic rule the free ballot and free speech
guaranteed by the Mexican constitution
are denied the people of Mexico
"The only means of correcting abuses
is by armed revolution" said one 1--WE
have no intention of violating the neu-
trality laws by raising armed forces in
the United States. We never have done
so. We have preached armed revolu-
tion by residents of Mexico through
publications in this country which are
circulated in Mexico, and expect to con-
tinue doing so. 1t i9 our privilege un-
der the American constitution, and we
cannot go to Mexico to carry on such
agitation. Political refugees from 9TH
er countries do the same thing
BLAME AMERICAN CAPITAL
The revolutionists assert that their
arrest was encompassed through the in
fluence of American capital invested in
Mixico, which desires a continuance of
the Diaz regime.
Turner's presence is said to be due to
q friendly interest in the men and a
desire to be on the ground if an at
tempt is made to arrest them again on
other indictments, which was threat
ened until the introduction of reso-
luton in congress calling for an in
Vestigation of the offenses charged
against the men. He believes the fail
ure to rearrest them is due to this
pending investigation.
1t is probable Los Angeles Will be-
come the headquarters OF the revolu-
tionary propaganda.