Bisbee daily review., 1911-03-12
GONZALES SAYS CORRAL THE
 ISSUE


 FL PAso. Tex. March 11-Don Juan Jose Gonzales. having been invalid for several years during his early life. is not typical of the in- surgent in appearance or manner.
 It is not at all likely that he would ever have joined the insur- gents in had it not been for the fact that it was safer among them than in Guerrero after the capture of that town by the Federals.
 As president of the Anti-Re-elec- tionista Club-in reality an anti Diaz club-he would have had scant show at a time when paciheos were being shot for reasons much more slender than this.
 Den Juan Gonzales is man ofi much reading and a politician of the studious inoffensive sort. Don Luis Chavez is a landowner and cattle raisers. a man well to do, in a fashion. in rural Chihuahua Don Fernando Chavez has beer, in many parts O, Mexico, is really travelled man to his companions, and he has listened to the gossip of the barracks and 60 the com
 plaints of his fe,iow-soldiers As a soldier. he received 10 cents day. Mexcon, paying 15 cents a t,-. ha,t- ., tho CNv+afr1rnapf for his
 uniform, shoes and buttons, but liv- tug much better than his brother of ! fcers. in many cases. because of d generous allowance from his | tspther,
 These men represented the high i est types to 3e found among the insurgents and they were all unique. There were three or four other owners of small ranches equal in l size and value to that nf Don Luis, but these folk were of a bruta. l close-to-the-earth type. There were other small merchants, but few of ! them; other deserters from the Fed erals and other store clerks, but ] these four men were of the best class of Mericans. courteous, hos pitable and intelligent
 From them, if from any among the insurgents, one might expect to learn the. real. causes for the pres ! ent outbreak.
 Nearly all these men who are riding with us are pronunciados' be- cause of the oppression of the Gov ernment,r said Don Luis. Incidental i ly 1t is to be remembered that the i insurgents never speak of them selves as insurrectcs. revoltosos, re
 beldes, serisiosos or Maderistas
 They refer to themselves almost in
 variably as pronunciation" those
 who have pronounced" against the government as liberales or anti-re- ! electionistas.
 1 Five years ago we were all friends of Don Porfria," be contin- ued. We thought him a great man. a great leader. man who was doing much for Mexico He was strong then because we were all friends oi his. All over Mexico it was the
 
 same.
 But. Don Porfirio is growing old and growing careless. Here in Chi huahua we do no: talk politics with knowledge and intelligence, as you do in your country, for here we learn things only through what hap pens to as directly. Tn your country it is different. There you have newspapers that tell you everything .hat your Governmellt is doing. Your newspapers criticise your Gov ernment. criticise the things it in tends to do, as well as the things ii has done. and in this way many thirgs that sno' Id not be done gre prevented.
 -t was because the people ot Mexico did not want Ramon Corral for president that there IS insur- | rectio, all over Mexico. but for us that wss not the greatest reason. In other .rts Of Mexico they would have Leen wiliing to have Don For firio continue as president, for they Aeure that he has not many years to live; but af:sr him they would mt have :;er..r Corral, nor will VIC now haze D.sa fsTtir;o.
 Yet !. IS rot vl.clly against im that VIC are incensed. It Is no: De- cause of what he has done. that we are prone.-ciS' 'cs.
 The American does not easio comprehend conditions .l Mexico
 He thinks that it is all one eoun.
 trx. one Government, one set O.
 conditions from Yucatan 70 the Hio
 Bravo; but this is not SO
 Each state is little republic
 bv itself. In. each state there are
 state taxes, municipal taxes and
 Federal taxes. or the s:ate taxes
 collected in Chihuahua 20 percent