Evening star., 1912-08-29


$50 brutally in some cases that there
is probab bly,
Brutality Is Reported ground for
to Force Intervention. ,,nn tns asse' ss
such treatment has been meted out for
the purpose of forcing intervention. In
one instance a prominent American colo
nist's wife fell i'll and died. Her relatives
In New Mexico were notified and made
the trip in an automobile. At the inter
national boundary line they were told by
the Mexican consul that they did not
need passport. When they arrived at
their destination, the man, whose wife
had died, was torn from the death cham
Der and taken out and hanged by Mexi-
can soldiers for permitting these relatives
Perhaps the people hardest hit by the
revolution have been the Mormons. Pres
ident Diaz was always anxious to get as
many farmers into Mexico as pos ible-
farmers who would break up big hacien-
dos into small far rms and till them after
the American way. Dozens of Mormon
settlements were established in many sec
tions of Mexico. Travelling along the
Vera Cruz and 1sthmus railway one
crosses broad prairies with here and
there settlements of Mormon farmers
men who have transformed idle soil into
WEALTH. h-producing plantations. The same
has been true in northern Mexico. These
people went down there. taking their all
with them. and establishing farming dis
frtcts and rural towns which remind one
OF prosperous sections in Iowa or Ili-
nois. None of the things one sees in
those states were wanting to tell the
story OF thrift. energy and prosperity: in
some OF the towns were three-story school
buildings. built according to the best
standard in the United States Their
schools had as extensive courses of study
and as good teachers as those in this
country.
But where prosperity and happiness
d"eit Yesterday. today there is sorrow
ana calamity. What the armies of the
north and the south did to Virginia as the
fortunes of war swayed back and forth
during the sixties. that have the armies
or the government and of tho revolution
lists been doing to the Mormon settle
ments In northern Mexico That is why
they have abandoned their all and are
hocking back to the United States. may
nap never to return
The Americans in Mexico cannot COM
plain that they have not been dealt with
generously in
Afforded Opportunity the matter
to Leave the Country. forded q, De'ns az an- aa-
portunity to get out of the country. The
dispatching OF army transports to bring
tnem of when President Taft first issued
MS admonition to all Americans to get
out, the prompt voting by Congress of a
hundred thousand dollars and the use of
army tents for the protection of the ref,,-
gees coming ACROSS the border and the
paying or the transportation charges to
any part or the United States for every
re,urnlng refugee unable to pay it him
seA' ten the story of the disposition of
the government to do what 1t can.
While all OF these things hay. hoon
happening Congress has decided unon
the motlon or Senator Nelson to attemDt
10 mo out exactly what is the true in
Maroness or the situation in Mexico.
Everybody knows 1t costs money to wage
wars, and Congress has a committee at
work trying to find out where the
nnances of the armies in Mexico and the
revolutions In other countries are coming
rom ron. some have asserted that Wall
street IS financing the revolution. Others
are contending that this is improbable at
least They point out that Wall street
mas vast Investments In the railroads
and mines OF Mexico, and that It would
petuate the present situation. which
mantfestly is adverse to the prosperity
OF these interests
1t is known. however, by all who are
acquainted with these countries that all
one needs to do is to raise the standard
OF revolution and financial support is
forthcoming. 1t happens in the little
war-r1dden countries like Haiti, Santo
Domingo, Nicaragua and Honduras as
we'll as in Mexico. And more often
than not it Is American money that is
put up. The Investigating committee is
determined to sift this phase of the situa-
ton to the bottom, and 1t is proba BILE
that it Will result in some very interest
ing revelations.
Those who ought to be best acquaint-
ed with the situation in Mexico profess
to see no early hope of peace. They as
sert that the pcon likes his job as a
soldier. and is willing to keep up the
fighting indefinitely, SO long it af-
fords him opportunity to redress what he
now considers the wrongs that have been
heaped upon him in the past, The longer
hostilities continue the more irritating
are the International questions expected
to become. and the calmer the counsel
required to prevent the most serious in
ternational difficulties.