Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1911-04-20
BOOZE" KILLS
INsURRECTOS
Alcohol Has DemoraIized
Their Army Says H. E.
Lowenberg
BUSINESS CONDITIONS BAD
Disturbance VIII Work Great
Good in End For
Mexico.

That booze" fond in bottles and
barrels by the insurrectos in towns
they capture is demoralizing their So
called armies" rather than the bull
lets and bravery of the federal troops
of Mexico was the declaration of H.
E. Lowenberg, former resident Of
New Mexico and now a clothing man
ufacturer of Chihuahua, who was in
the city this morning.
Mr.. Lowenberg was accompanied
by his beautiful daughter, Miss Low
enberg and they were on their way to
Ojo Caliente to visit Mr. Lowenbergs s.
other daughter who now is Mrs. An,
tonic Joseph.
For an entire week Mr. Lowenberg
and his daughter had been travelling
from Chihuahua to Ell Paso, which
is a trip of ten hours.
The delays were due to many
said Mr.. Lowenberg at the
Palace hotel this morning. Once our
train had to turn back because oil
burned bridges; another time becauseI
a band of 25 insurrectos stopped u.s.
and forced every one to shout Viva
Madero.' If traveller showed no in
clination to utter this war cry he was
poked in the ribs with a musket. 81
was a funny sight.
You know the road from Chihua-
hua to Ell Paso, the direct road. isl
not in operation, and We had to go byI
way of Torreon which is a very round
about way. We had only five SOL
diers on the train. 1t would not do to
run the trains with a large armed
force because the insurrectos might
retaliate by using dynamite Oh the
tracks. However when we had to re-
turn to Torreon the second time wei
got 80 soldiers and with this armed
force managed to get along all right,
The first trip when we had only fiveI
soldiers on the train we spotted a!
camp OF $50 or more insurrectos not
far from the tracks and the five sol
diers grew so excited that they asked
to stop the train and get off to give
battle with the insurrectos The
demonstrated so forciblyI
with the quintette of federal warriors
that they finally quieted down.
Business is Paraiyzed.
There can be no question that
business in many lines is paralyzed
owing to the insurrection. Manufac-
turers feel this condition, for they are
losing so many accounts. Small mer-
chants are deserving their business
either to go to war or for fear of the
war
Booze Kills.
The insurrectos now are having
great trouble to get ammunition, so
stringent are the regulations along
the border. Then too, the insurrectos
are hampered by having several kinds
of arms and it is difficult for them
to get suitable ammunition. For ex.
ample they got hold of lot of Mauser
rifles which were for the federal
troops but they did not get the bul
lets which are shipped from Germany.
Hence they cannot use these firing
pieces.
"One of the great troubles with
the insurrecto forces is the craving
for alcohol. When they capture a.
town and get hold of barrels or bot
Ties of the stimulants, it is bye-bye to
the efficiency Of the soldiers. They
go on an awful tear. That is all there
is to it. The insurrectos at first were
made up of certain middle class ranch
ers who had possibly real grievance.
Madero was not in the first uprising,
reports to the contrary notwithstand-
ing.
Sympathy for Diaz.
Il do not quite understand why
there should be much sympathy in
this country for the Madero faction
President Diaz has been exceedingly
[rlendly TO people from the United
States and his policy has aided for
eigners who invest in Mexico. His
policy may not have guaranteed free
dom at elections but we understand
he is willing to make all concessions
that are demanded except to resign
1t would be hard to find a man able
to fill his place-a man with his diplo-
macy and wisdom.
Will Work Good.
in the end, however, we expect
this insurrectionary movement tol
pass over and to work great good for
The country. The federal government
troops are pretty we'll scattered all
over the republic but this insurrec-
ton in my opinion, will finally quiet
DOWN"