Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-05-20
UPRISING N Mexico
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General conditions-cost of living
| and public welfare-have improved. be-
cause the people have worked hard, a.
elsewhere, but this economic progress
has been hindered, not assisted, by MS
methods.
1.-The favor he has shown his friends
has made competition against them al
most Impossible and has given rise to
numberless monopolies fostered by un-
fair exempt ions from taxation Of many
enterprises In which those friends hold
interests
'sNot only has he thus encouraged
monopolies OF manufactures, but OF
natural resources. The light and power
company Of Mexico City has q CLAUSE
in its concession stating that no other
individual or company shall be granted
the right to use any waterfall within
a certain tremendous area, which
means perpetual monopoly of light
and power in the capital, Puebla,
Pachuca, and some other places
Therefore, certainly, electric power IS
high in Mexico.
'.Ten pesos, or IS, monthly for light.
and this Is for small families; In any
ordinary family Of four or five persons
the charge may run as high as 80 or
40 pesos. This handicaps business
needing small power, also, where coal
Is scarce and high. 1t must be trans
ported 1900 kilometers. @
Therefore, say, the influence OF
Diaz on material progress in Mexico
has not been good, but bad.
No Justice For Workinsman.
There Is no justice whatever for the
working man In Mexico. In the United
Countries
man can go to work and be protected
in his wages by the courts, but in Mex
leo he loses courage when he sees that
any day the jefe politico, for trifling
cause or none, can take him from his
work and send him into prison, or to
exile.
1.-The factories Of the district Of At
lixco. In the state Of Puebla, are among
the best in Mexico; yet the working
men live there in constant fear OF the
authorities. At last election time they
organized club to support my broth
er for the presidency-just such club
as there are thousands cf ct each CAM
paign time in the United States. A
meeting was in progress when Machor-
ro Jefe politico. a lieutenant OF Gov.
Martinez, said to an American who had
just arrived in town:
Summary Of RsboIs' Complaints.
but how foolish to continue multi
plying our complaints against the gov
eminent Summarized, they colne to
this:
TN Mexico there is no freedom for
the ordinary citizen-not even free-
dom from the injustices Of an entire
ly unequal taxation.
Tn Mexico not even human lie is
safe from the political assassin. indeed
official murders are so common az 70
scarcely cause comment.
TN Mexico the masses are deprived
of suffrage, education, the free press;
everything the free man holds most
dear.
I'm Mexico not even women are pre-
served from the vile power OF pot-
tic.ans, especially the jefe politicos'
In Mexico there never has been an q
there never can be, under the present
systm: an election which approaches
| honesty; the nation Is monarchy III
fact: a republic but In name.
"In Mexico things do not go by right.
but by favor Of the powerful. and IN
this twentieth century. on this side
| of the Atlantic ocean. such conditiohs
can not be much longer tolerated.
TN Mexico is slavery, quite pure and
! s;mrle. on the peninsula of Yucutan
and a condition not SO far from ap-
proximating it among the laborins
classes, everywhere turnout our coun-
try-a situation medieval, inexcus-
able impossible"