The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1911-03-18
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| navy on the Mexican border. While
| l believe | know, it requires too
! much time to answer each inquiry
| separately and go sufficiently into
detail to make my meaning clear. /
| have, therefore, concluded to make
! this army and navy maneuver the
subject of this letter. BY way of in
| troductory | desire to state that not
| withstanding the fact that Mexico is
laid down on our modern maps as "A
| republic its government is no more
government of the people, by the
people, for the people, than is the
United States governed by the pres
ident and the upper and lower house
of congress. 1t is only during the
past comparatively few years that
any appreciate progress has been
made toward Internal improvements
In the states of Mexico and such i'm
provements have been mainly made
by capitalists OF America. England
and other foreign nations, for the
native caballero was content to con-
sumo the fruits Of the toll of his
poems in luxurious living. caring lit
tie for the upbuilding of public en-
terprises or the development of the
country's natural resources. Not
much more than a decade has pass
ed since commercial cormorants in
vaded the land of the Aztecs and
now we find railroads, coffee plan
tations, cocoanut and orange groves
and vast mining enterprises owned
and controlled by foreigners. Diaz is
not the iron willed autocrat We are
| taught to believe but is an old man
in his dotage and is the plant tool
of the predatory wealth of other
lands. Mexico is ruled by the money
kings of other lands just as we of
''the land of the brave and the home
| of the free" ca are ruled by the
| trusts and the federal courts Diaz
| is puppet the same as our presi-
dent and congress and senate, some
\ thing the people are fooled into be-
lieving they elect at stated intervals.
The people are becoming aroused
! whether on account of better educa-
| ton or on account of association
| with Americans who are in the coun-
| try as settlers, mine, plantation and
railroad operatives, | know not, but
they have taken up arms against the
powers that be and doubtless il we
were in full possession of the facts
we would know that the revolution
is a verySformidable affair. There
are millions of American money in
| vested in Mexico and since the in
ception of the revolution the cry ha
gone forth for the protection of An
, erican interests. Some time sine
, some kind of a Mexican represents
> tive called on the chief executive
Texas on some kind of mission col
| corning the policing of the borde
AS guarantee OF his respecta bfIit
and responsibility he had with hin
one Henry Clay Pierce whom doubt
less many Texans remember as the
| man who was alleged by many evil
| minded persons to be part owner
| of a man who never did wrong or
made a mistake. Mexico is full OF
American interests and these inter
ests rule the United States and
Mexico But you are about ready to
Sdt WHY all IllS iutl ~ 80
| do you not tell us the reason for the
sending of the army and navy to the
Mexican border? | am going to tell
You right now and could have done
SO before now but ! wished to show
you how long l could write toward a
thing without getting to It, Those
soldiers and battleships are down
. Of r1l rilan
interests. Primarily to bluff the In
surgents into submission and to so
close by patrol the border as to rem
der the getting of supplies and am
munition from the United States, al
so to keep American sympathizers
from joining to the revolutionists, II
this proves sufficient to suppress the
rebellion then as soon as all becomes
quiet your Uncle Sam will withdraw
his troops II the rebels are more
powerful and more determined than
to be inundated by this method
then your Uncle Sam will discover
that the Mexican government is too
weak to protect the American in
terests" and will soon find suitable
pretext for going over the line ana
the revolution will pass into history
Your Uncle Sam is past grand mas
ter in dealing with revolutions. He
paid Spain s20.000,o00 for one IA
few years ago when the fight was all
but won by the rebels. There were no
great American interests in that
case so he purchased it so these in
terests could get in on the ground
| floor and he would not be forced to
show his cloven hoof as ! fear ne
! may in the case Of poor peoned
Mexico. II any of you have bet on
| the Mexican revolutionists belns
successful I advise you to hedge II
possible, If not compromise, that ran
| ing pay the bet and get it off your
mind for your dear old impartial
| Uncle Sam is not going to permit
! change In the government of Mexi-
co. His masters say he mustn't. He is
| afraid so he doesn't. I have not been
asked this further and really more
| ippnortapt nueation Shoul1 the Uni