The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-05
Operated Hotel at Ell Pas0
Where Revolutionary
Leaders Stopped
HIGH PRAISE FOR
FRANCISCO MADERO
Reason He Failed Was His Kind
heartedness, Says Mr.. Benton.
Poems Had Rather Fight
Than Work

Tales of the brigandage, fratrieidal.
guerilla warfare that has ragged within
the border of Mexico for some time were
told in Birmingham yesterday by man
and woman who have spent the past sew
eral months in what they termed 'the
Incubator of Mexican wars
Mr. and Mrs George r. Benton, who
operate the Hotel Pase Del Norte at
Ell Paso, Tex, have had some very in
teresting experiences and at the Hotel
Hillman yesterday afternoon they freely
talked about them. Mr.. and Mrs. Benton
are on their way to indianapolis, Mrs.
Bentons former home.
That as long as there was a Mexico,
there would be a Mexican revolution and
revolutions; as long as the United States
didn't intercede, there would be Mex
leo: that If this country did intercede,
il would take years and years OF bloody
warfare and expensive campaigning to
accomplish anything; that Madero was
murdered in cold blood and that Vice
President Suarez was choked to death
and then shot and that the poems or
lower class of Mexicans, who are greatly
in the majority. didn't want peace and
wouldn't have it at any cost, were some
of the opinions expressed by these two
Americans, fresh from the border of the
bloody land across the Rio Grande
Entertained Mexican Leaders
"Our hotel at Ell Paso Is where the
unsatisfed leaders in Mexico come to
hatch their revolution plans We enter
tanned Madero when he was planning to
overthrow Diaz; we entertained the Diaz-
Huerta crowd when they were planning
to overthrow Madero, and we have en-
tertained Zepata, Terazi and other big
men of Mexico, who are now planning
to overthrow Huerta, which. by the way,
he pronounced 'Werto.' and young Diaz.
.It is considered common knowledge
in FL Paso that Madero was murdered,
that Suarez was choked to death and that
then both bodies were placed in the au-
tomobie and attacked, to carry out the
ruse that they were killed otherwise.
Madero is the best man Mexico ever had,
but he was not the man for Mexico. He
was too good, too kind-hearted and too
lenent Madero was the Lincoln of Mex
leo and because he was in Mexico and
not the United States he met with fail
ure. The only man that has ever han
died the people of Mexico was Porfirio
Diaz He ruled them by treating them
with their own medicine. When he found
an enemy he shot him, Just like the
enemy would have done with Diaz il he
had had the chance. The majority of
Mexican poems do not want peace. They
are a semi-heathen class. They are wild
and ferocious and they fight because they
like to fight They'd rather fight than
farm run a factory or follow any
other peaceful pursuit That's why there
are revolutions in Mexico and why there
always will be revolutions there, until
this class of people are killed off. Aou
can't teach them, you can't educate them,
you have to kill 'em.
The Morgan of Mexico
'"This man Terazi is the J. p. Morgan of
Mexico. He financed the Diaz-Huerta
revolution. He was the big financier of
the Porfirio Daz regime. 1t is said he
is worth SlOo 000,0 900. When Madero over
threw the OLD Diaz, General Terazi with
all his family and court composing over
200 persons fled across the country and
lived at our hotel. They were an in
teresting lot. All of the big men of
all factions have been harbored at the
Pase Del Norte at one time or another,
Matching out plans to overthrow some
body or some government
1.-The states of Sonora and Chihuahua
want annexation with the United States.
There is no doubt but that is what they
are working for. Huerta's forces are
very weak at present Something new
is going to happen in Mexico soon.
Mrs Benton told of visiting the jails
and other places across the river In
Juarez at different times during the past
few months She said they were the
hlthiest and most unkempt places she
had ever seen, The soldiers in any of
the revolutions have never worn uni
forms. she said; they are merely band
of outlaws fighting because they like
to fight and incidentally aiding some
leader who as soon as he gets what
he's after is fought in turn by the same
men who formerly were for him.
Mr. Benton is one of the best known
hotel men In the SOUTH He is now in
terested in a scheme for a string of
hotels from El Paso north, to accommo-
date travellers to the Panama exposition
at San Francisco He was here look
ing over the Tutwiler hotel and stated
yesterday that he might secure a lease
on IT,