The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-14
MeXicans Feel Their Peril
Comes From North.
Scientific Party Finds No An
archy in Mexico.
BUILD MORE BATTLESHIPS
Russia Gives e. S. Builders
Part of Contract.
How Americans Get Business
From English Firms.

New York, March 14.-Private and
yet authoritative information was re-
ceived today from Mexico which is of
somewhat different character from the
published reports which have come
from the Republic and which intimate
that turmoil and chaos prevail from the
Rio Grande to the southernmost bound
airy. The private report received in tie
city today comes from Americans who
have been for some time in Mexico oc-
cupied exclusively with scientific work
They have Travelled through much OF
the interior of the republic. Their sci
entific persuits have made it necessary
for them to come in contact with all
classes of the Mexican population. For
obvious reasons. it would not be ex-
pedient to quote by name those who
nave sent this information to fr1endS
in this city, but the news which they
have communicated differs so greatly
from some of the published accounts
and is so impartial that it may serve
to lessen some of the apprehension
which now prevails in Washington
The communication states that 1T has
been difficult for these men of science
to understand how the published &C
counts of the troubles in Mexico nave
originated.
For instance, all these published re-
ports speak of very great unrest
through much of the country through
which these men of science have pass
ed and yet they found scarcely any
signs of real or alarming unrest. They
did hear some criticism of the admir-
istration of some of the Mexican states
and of ne national government, but
that is nothing new. The party has
recently been travelling with guides
through a large part of Oaxaca and
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Vote Is Not Important.
A paragraph from the communica
ton received this morning may be
worth while to quote, since it may
serve to explain the reason for some
of the disturbances which now exist i'll
Mexico.
The writer says: "One thing that
struck us forcibly in all the places
where we have been is the complete
lack of appreciation of the fact that
the right to vote carries with it the
duty to stand by ones vote until an
other election. AS it now is, If the sue
cessful candidate does not at once meet
the expectation of the people they want
to make an instant change. They do not
remember that they put men into power
whom a little later they try to over
throw. We have been to many con-
ventions held in small Mexican towns
and we are satisfied that such uneasi-
ness as does prevail Will not be eradt
Gated until the people of Mexico real !
ize what their political responsibilities
are, especially with regard to the suf-
rage. We are inclined to think that
personal ambitions are the real cause !
for such disturbances as do exist"
Hostility to the United States.
This party of scientists did discover
that throughout many parts of Mexico |
there prevails a deep seated hatred
against the United States. Several
times they heard Mexicans say to lit
tie groups: "In the north you can
ing it's wings and getting it's claws I
ready to tear up our beloved country. |
That birds shadows are falling now
over our southern coast. Let that
the north and it will find a united
people, These little assent lages,
this scientific party reports, are held
here and there in the country, but
the disturbances reported publicly are
due to boaSting and especially to the
occasionally of two or /
three men with rifles somewhat I'M |
tend that they are about to take
the village. 1t seemed to the party
that many of the disturbances were
simply the outcome of this kind of
silly, rough play.
Quoting again from the report:
1.-The bitterness of feeling at Puebla
and Guerrero is genuine and is due to
the grievances which the poorer
These grievances can only be RENE
died very slowly. Yet the one prayer
in all the households that we have
been in at Zacatecas, Jalisco, Sonora
full times again!'" This communica-
ton has been received by the officers
Of one of the great American associa-
tons for the promotion of science.
The Dreadnaughts for Russia.
From Philadelphia has come au-
tn oritative report that at the Cramps
are to be buiE imm ediately
two warships for Russia which in
and armament, when COM
pleted, will surpasS even the greatest
The news is regarded as authentic
here because unless the Cramps felt
assured of the contract absolute Sc
erecy would have been maintained re-
specting negotiations in progress with
the Russian government.
Approximately, each one of these
ships will cost about twelve million
dollars and the preliminary work in
the hull and preparing
the ships for launching will entail at
least three million dollars.
The report also tells of the proba-
oility that at the shipyards of Wickers
Sons & Maxim, near Liverpool; Two
other dreadnaughts will be built for
Russia, these four serving as the nu-
cleus for the new navy Russia expects
to establish to take the place of the
navy she lost in the war with Japan.
Should Charles NJ. SchWab perfect
with the new republic of
China which have been for some time
pending, then other dreadnaughtsl
United States and those which Argen-
tina has already built will be con-
structed at the American shipyard
within the next four or five years
How the English Lost.
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