Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-06-26
MADERO TO THE
MEXICAN POOR
Promises to Reduce Taxes
on Small Holdings.

City Of Mexico, June 26.-That the
burden of taxes in Mexico is no longer
to be borne by the poorer classes Is
the substance of an ultimatum issued
national laws along this line cannot be
enacted now, the new power in Mexico
will urge the state governors to see
that small landowners and merchants
are not made to pay heavy taxes.
Foreign capital, he also asserts, Is to
receive adequate protection.
He promises to Investigate the do
1ngs of the Diaz administration and
that which is being done not in ac-
cordance with the law Will be reme-
died and the guilty as far as possible
will be punished. He recommends to
the revolutionary soldiers that they
treat the defeated rebels as brothers.
In the course of the whole wal the
federals sympathized with the insur-
rect1on movement and believed thaA
would be a calamity for the country.
Naturally, says Madero, the federals
had little interest in winning battles
and the federal army was not really
defeated. Defeat came only to the
dictators who were driving them. How
was it possible, he asks, that the fed
eral soldiers could win when they
even preferred to die, that Mexican
people might regain their liberty?
He hopes that the press will coop
crate with him frankly and sincerely,
but says that as a simple citizen or
president or as the occupant of any
office into which he might come he
will consider as friends only that part
of the press which criticises the faults
that he commits and shows him his
errors. He will look with suspicion
upon newspapers which approve his
every act. He says as a simple citi-
zen of the country he has a right to
address the people. AS a candidate
for the presidency 1t is his duty to
show the people where he stands. AS
leader of a Triumphant revolution it is
his duty to work diligently to see that
the people receive all the benefits of
the successful revolution.
Zapata is expected from Cuernavaca
today with 200 picked men, who have
been incorporated into the national
rurale guard. The rest of his 5000
men have been d~isbanded. Reports
say that Zapata will not go to Tehua-
can, as Madero has ordered, but after
a conference with Madero expects to
return to Cuernavaca. 1t Is said that
Zapata has aspirations and that he in
tends to run for governor Of Morelos.
A private dispatch from chihuahua
says that Orozco, Madero's principal
general at the battle of Juarez, is be
ing urged as governor of Chihuahua,
but that great opposition has already
developed. Friends of Gonzales, the
present governor, appointed by Ma
dero, insist that he IS the logical can
didate of the Maderista party in the
coming election.
The German government, through
the local ambassador, has demanded
that Mexico investigate carefully and
fix the responsibility for the death of
q German of the name of Reitter, who
was killed by Maderistas In the state
of Hidalgo.
Aillaud, Madero's candidate, has
been made provisional governor Of the
state Of Vera Cruz. 1t is the first step
in the settlement of the difficulties
which have troubled the state for
some weeks. The competition for gov
ernor was directly the cause of the
fight at Jalapa last week, In which
fifty were killed. Jalapa is in mourn
ing, all houses and stores being draped
with Grape.
Madero has reiterated the statement
that he has no present intention of
bringing about the investigation OF
any business enterprise. He also says
that it Is not true that he will retain
the board Of the National railway as
it is now constituted. He expects to
make an investigation of the railway
affairs, after which be probably will
have charges to make.