New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1911-07-26
SIDE LIGHTS ON Old MEXICO
AND ON HER new REVOLUTION

II ~ ENOR DON JOSE IVES u
~ MANTOUR, Mexican fnanc
~ minister, who recently left Ne,
York rather secretly and hui
riedly. seemed disposed to charge th
insurrection in his country to GU
muckrakers Said Don Jose:
1T may seem untrue, but am new
ertheless convinced that. except 70
the sensational articles relative t
Mexico which were printed in you
newspapers and magazines for q yea
or more before the insurrectionar,
movement developed there neve
would have been the trouble that ha!
existed in my country for severa
months. For years President Diaz has
told writer's visiting Mexico that al
he desired to be said about his coun
| try was the truth and has discouraged
| fulsome praise as much as the muck
raking,' ! believe you call it, which
has been so much in evidence for some
time
"And this is all that ask of the
press Of the United States or of any
country in dealing with Mexico-the
truth. You are familiar in general
way with the extent Of foreign invest
ments in my country. chief of which
are American. II your papers have
any regard for the interests Of Amer
leans with large sums Of money in en-
terprises in Mexico and for the posi-
bilities for the further Investment of
foreign capital there, 1t is difficult for
me to understand how they can long
er print sensational matter regarding
Mexico You may not kill the goose
that lays the golden egg but you GER
tainly will not help the interests Of
your own people in Mexico.
Seemingly the Americans who by
allying themselves directly or indirect
~ with that movement have hoped to
avenge some alleged grievance against
my government have failed to realize
that the injury done so far has been
as much to American as to Mexican
interests. You are probably aware
that in the two states to which the
trouble has been almost exclusively
confined there are several thousand
Americans and millions of American
money invested. The mining and kin
bred industries in Chihuahua and So.
nora ere largely in the hands of Amer
leans.
"Just now those industries are Grip |
pied to great extent, and this-must |
say it?-more because of the activi
les Of irresponsible Americans in my
country and the support which they
rave received from this side of the
border than because Of the initiative
# Mexicans resident in Mexico. Your
people have taught my people many
hings they never should have known"
AlfonZo Madero, brother Of Francis.
% r. Madero, the leader Of the revolt
n Mexico, evidently looks at things
rom different angle. Says Madero:
ITO begin with, the whole state of
chihuahua is now in the hands of my
brother Francisco, with the exception
# the city of chihuahua, which he
an take any time he wishes. The
'lty is now completely surrounded by
he insurrectos. Sonora is ahame from
,order to border, and the insurrection
low has a FIRM foothold in Lower Cali
GSnia, while to the eastward in Goa
luiia there is already a small force
n the field, Within the next few days
he instruction will be REINFORCED !
u that state by several thousand coal |,
miners who have been thrown out OF
by the closing Of the
mines.
1T is the same story-revolt every
where. In the state of Guerrero, In
Vera Cruz, in oaxaca and III Yucatan'
everywhere the revolution is growing.
Iucs{an Is practically lost right now;
to the Diaz government. 1t spreau
with remarkable quickness. the oniy
question that has confronted the leao'
ers was arming the people. FOR years
they have been ready to do what tney
are now doing. but the government
was too smart ana was kp'e ~
arms from falling into the hands OF
the people. So they got arms very
slowly. Those who got Them first used
them first. That Is the story OF the
uprising in a nutshell" ~. zE
President Diaz has plan Tor oi.
yiding up the goat estates into small
holdings for the people. Senior Liman'
tonr recently made mention OF this
nroiect in New York. There Is an I'M
nl,ed promise that this will be done
"a soon as the instruction Is over
Says President Diaz:
"senor Iimantour. who Is a gooo
friend of mine, perhaps had In m'no
when making these statements Ger
tain conversation which we had some
time ago, in which l outlined to hin
nv ideas as to the purchase by tne
government of some such estates
which at present Yield little.
IF these properties are bought 0!
the government and divided into SINAI
lots TO be owned by actual tl!ers OF th'