Bisbee daily review., 1911-02-26
EXAGGERA FED STORIES IF
 WAR

The following letter which was published in the New York Times tends to still further show how great ly exaggerated have been the reports of disturbances in Mexico, even in Chihuahua. where it is admitted they have been more serious than in other sections, and whence more reports have been sent than elsewhere, un- til recently, when the MexicaH date line is receiving particular promin- ence and threatens to put the El Paso dates out of the hmelight:
 This whole proceeding of manu- facturing lurid tales of bloody battles and constant federal slaughters in Mexico has been a continuing out rage on tthe Mexican government.
 which for many years has been one of the most orderly, economical and
 progressive of the Western Hemis phere. The government has been singularly free from graft; the mod est federal revenues have been de- voted to works of great utility and there has been a persistent effort to
 diversity and enlarge both native in- dustries and to induce new ones
 from abroad.
 Tt is a bold untruth to proclaim that there is any serious percentage of the people, outside of the old
 time bandits and professional revo- lutionists whom President Diaz put out of business years ago, who are dissatisfied with the Diaz administra- ton. The whole present petty dis turbance is purely the result of the obsession of young MaderO. a resi- dent of the capital city, who being fired with the notion that he was a bigger man than Diaz, but who mus tered only a handful of votes, and hence resorted to the defunct remedy of stirring up two classes of disturb CTS of the peace-the one the surviv- ors of the old freebooting bands. and the other the illiterates who accept
 what comes to them by word of mouth as a new gospel of ac
 ture.
 You will note that throughout
 the 1900 miles of Mexico's extension
 there is peace and good order, ex-
 cept on the United States border,
 where marauders, fugitiyes from jus tice and American trouble breeders
 are alike interested and combined in the work of conducting a fake revo- lution by lurid press dispatches, 99 per cent subjective, built on pinch of fact and report.
 This so-called revolution is but a recrudescence of an old-time evil that of outlaws taking refuge in the mountains and issuing thence in bands to pray upon the industrious
 There is this difference, that the leader has funds of his own and presumably those of men who also
 hope to be awarded by fat conces- sions, and with the handful of men | fin the field" comprises about all the we'll known bandits and murderers
 not previously captured, strict orders
 were issued against the stealing of even a box of matches. the men be ing notified that there was money to
 DC distributed 10 pay for what was
 needed; so the movement has rot
 yet reached the stage of freehooters
 campaign. We are in the midst of the fighting force-pretty poor fight
 ers-and they treated us like honest
 men, who, for the time at least,
 were not obliged to live of the coun- try. Since then the alleged fighting
 has been receding rapidly northward until ther is nothing left of 1t ex- cept the Texas dispatches of fright
 ful blood letting on the south side of the Rio Grande
 Aadero and his dupes are not en- titled either to the sympathy of the
 American people nor to the use of the etrans-border territory of the United States as a base for flea biting the Diaz administration. The
 whole foolish disturbance ought to come to an end forthwith
 GEORGE W. DITHRIDG, Vencedora, Chihuahua, Mexico. Feb. ,, 1911.