Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1913-04-26
HAVE SUSPICION
OF UNCLE SAM
SEVERAL TAMAULIPECOS- ISSUE
CIRCULAR CHARGING CARRAN-
IA AND MAYTORENO WITH
RANK TREACHERY. t.
DECLARE CARRANZA MOVEMENT
INSPIRED BY UNITED STATES,
SEEKING TO ACQUIRE FRONTIER
STATES OF MEXICO. s..s


| Without the name of the author, a
circular in Spanish was printed and dis
tributed among the citizens of Mata-
moros yesterday. calling upon them to be
on the alert to guard themselves against
a possible outrage, and charging that the
United States is seeking to gain control
of the border Mexican states. which are
now through the work of sCarranza.
threatening to secede from the republic.
The circular hints that without the
force of arms the United States seeks TO
enrich itself BY the addition Of those
states.
Who NAV be the author of the circular
is not known. butt il il regarded as the
outgrowth Of the mind Of some fanatic
principally because it is unsigned
save by Several Tamaulipecos"
Translated. the circular reads.
"Mexicans be on Your Guard. T..
"Tamaulipecos. Beware,
Before the Imperative necessity ar
rives calling upon the citizens of the
state of Tamaulipas to be on their guard
to defend themselves against a possible
outrage, we believe il pertinent and
patriotic to tell the truth-verv bitter
by the way-that in our opinion entails
through the ignoblc attitude of Carran-
"a and Maytorena, who pretend that
their Obpect il to form a republic from
the rich and extensive states Of onr
frontier, suggested possibly by the sys.
tematlc policy of the Colossus of the
North. 4,.GDm
I'VE know through very painful ex-
perlence how the richest part of our ter
ritory came under the domain Of the
United States. AT the present the same
occurrence as took place in 1917 il in
tended, and the white house il rejoicing.
And it is natural, as we, the bigoted, the
Iilusive, the patriotic are in the same
condition as i'll the year 1917.
The same case and the same cause
have determined il. At that time il was
the matter of the immense riches that
Ill their native state were 10 be found
in Texas, Arizona, New Mexcio and Cal
lfornia; today, il il matter of the eat
tie industry, cotton, sugar cane, the
hpas; the gold and other metals of So
nora and chihuahua. the gayule and
cotton of Coahuila. not taking into con
sideration Lower California as "A strate-
glcal point for Il future not far distant.
possibly just as close as the Inaugural.
ton of the Panama canal
And these conceptions Of ours. that
are unquestionably maintained by the
international politicians. are the funda
mental causes Of this infamous and ii
decent movement, inspired and prepared
by American gold. and taken advantage
Of by Carranza and Maytorena. 1t can
be stated that this in the true interycn-
ton. and not the one we innOcently await
BY the arms Of Uncle Sam. A
Mexico. in its impoverished condi-
ton, in its errors, in its civil and politi.
cal agitation. does not require the entry
Of foreign troops for its conquest. and
much less those of the United States. Az
was very ably stated by some eminent
writer: 10 these il il rs much a fili-
clustering and treachcrous expedition as
the one headed by Carranza and Mayto-
rena. and TO obtain in one swoop their
expansion ambitions and ambitions for.
absorption. The Yankees. like the Eu-
ropean powers. can get anywhere they
want without shedding a drop Of their
own blood. Eloquent proof of it We find
in the ease of the Balkans There YOU
have the manner of how they proceed
Therefore. we can be assured, that
unless the Mexicans by honesty and
patriotism. assume an attitude identical
with that of the Beers with regard TO
England, only then, we reapeat. can an
armed intervention come to our country.
Putting aside, however the veil that
covers that raking movement, il in time
\ for Tamaulipas to be on the alert. very
much armed. to defend itself and to
avoid that ungoverned ambition of the
Colossus of the North, who in the real
author Of our troubles-the real inter
ventionists, and not the arms and power
full battlcships with which the North
pretends to scare us.
"The United States knows how to do
these things-it is its history, its policy
1t is in its preponderant impulse. III
ii were not so, they would have never
formed nor enriched their tarritorv i