The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-06-17

ion, how did you, Of all men, get away
again?" l asked.
81 laughed myself out Of the pris-
on" he said jovially. 81 treated all
the charges which we're brought
against me as quite too absurd to be
taken seriously. They finally became
convinced chat this view was the
right one, and released me-"
Now his voice rolled out in a very
hearty peal Of merriment.
THAT was six months since, and
they are sorry now that J got out
Madero had been in the Belen iail,
and maintains that at time two per
cent of the entire population of Mex.
leo were in one jail or another. He
continues:
'If in New York the same percent
age was locked up the city would have
10000 Of its citizens behind the bars.
1t is not reasonable to think. is it, tal
so many citizens are malefac or
MeXicans, in general, are as law.atia-
ing as the citizens of any other cou--
try. They are not Uniquely viciJus
Therefore it must be that quite a num-
Der Of that vast horde of confined men
were innocent. Well, where innocence
is cast into prison, there, friend, tyr
amy is found. 1t is not so? 1t is
against that tyranny that we revolt
in Mexico.
"Of the fifty men in the cell in which
was confined" Madero went on, pres
emily, forty had been sentenced to be
shot by Telesforo Ocampo. That
group of men condemned to die was
interesting as a sample of the justice
dealt out there in Mexico. This man.
Ccampo, appeared to take real pleas
iure in condemning men to death. He
| it was who bet a dinner with some
! friends that, the very night the bet
was made, he would condemn a man
to death. He won the bet, of course.
Il rested with him purly and simply.
| He could always send a man to death!
Wait; let me give you this mans
photograph" He fumbled among his
papers and found postcard with the
portrait of this judge and a brief story
of the episode, printed both in Spanish
and in English, underneath the por.
trait at has been very popular in
this country among Mexicans," he
said. Thousands of them have been
used He laughed "Of course, we
do not put so many of them in the
mails in Mexico. The man who mailed
one or received one there might be the
subject of another dinner bet"
But such things have not caused the
war-they are merely the incidents
Says Madero:
GAS long as we could live, no matter
with what great discomforts, will
what terrible accompaniment of trag
! edy, we patiently or stupidity endured
= We have sprung into revolution onl,
when conditions have become so tel
rible that the great mass of the pee
pie cannot provide themselves, unmC
Tested, with the plain necessities o
life; when they see thier wives ant
children suffer because they are no
. permitted TON peace and safety AM
without oppression by their labor
q provide for them sufficient means o
sustenance.
"Injustices of taxation have don
: more, perhaps, to drive us to plat
desperation than any other one thin
has. The system has been such tina
only the small favored few have bee
enabled to progress. The ordinary CT
izen can make no Roadway tOwar
G prosperity, no matter how eternal
. and how efficiently he may strive &c
6 it. Human effort has demanded il
- reward; in Mexico it has not had ii
- there, as elsewhere, when it does M
- set at least a small proportion of it,
., vi rise and smite and take for II
own self its own"
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