The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1913-09-05


Half the population is made up
of full blooded Indians who never
intend to work The poems are
ground to death with poverty.
TIE government has given away
the lands of the people and there
is no hope for the poor. Three
fourths of one entire state is owned
by one family. There is a man in
Washington now, hanging around
the State Department who owns
think of it-seven hundred thou
sand acres of land in Mexico.
| knew a man once who wrote a
learned article on Ten Acres
Enough" This fellow with the
Mexican lands owns ten acres. Yes.
hundred acres. Yes, a thousand
acres. Yes, ten thousand acres. Yes,
hundred thousand acres. Yes, two
hundred thousand acres, five hun
dred thousand, seven hundred thous-
and God knows and Humanity
knows that no living mortal has got
any business with any such an
amount of land. That's one thing
that's the matter with Mexico.
There millions in Mexico who will
not work. There are millions who
do work and who are ground down
into the dust by the upper classes
Thousands who make robbery a bus
mess, for it is easier to rob than to
work.
Mexico is broken out all over with
revolutions thick as the measles on
a boys face Little bands OF forty
or fifty, pillaging, looting, assault
ing women, numbering as they
please, and neither Huerta nor any
other man can stop them.
Over in the State Department they
have map with yellow pins repre-
senting Federals and red pins rep
resenting rebels stuck about to show
where these gangs are operating and
the map is literally specked with
pins. In Northern Mexico there are
organized armies of Constitutional
lists but for the most part Mexico
is a seething mass of brigands and
highway robbery. 1t is too much to
expect that, financially bankrupt and
torn by civil war, Huerta can bring
about order, and yet a billion dol
lars of American property owned by
citizens Of the United States depends
on the outcome of eight thousand
citizens of this country, still in Mex
leo, must fee or trust to him for
protection.
When we consider that the people
of this country have a billion dol
lars invested in Mexico, that thous-
ands of our people have gone down
there to work and develop the
country while the lazy Indians have
lived as the Indians lived in this
country three hundred years ago
that our people have been murder
ed and run out and that now the
President advises all to leave their
property and fee, it looks like to me
we have taken the wrong position.
1t is all right if we mean war be-
cause they would be murdered if
they stayed, but Bryan's grape juice
diplomacy is wasted on Huerta. The
Secretary of State might as we'll sing
Psalms to an alligator.
If you don't believe me listen at
this: A gang of MeXicans came up
on the home of an old German and
his wife. They tied the man, as
saulted his wife and then murdered
them both. Germany demanded
100000. Huerta demurred. The
demand was renewed with the threat
OF war ship. Huerta didn't be-
ilSNN lHCIt WIS herman WdrSnlp
in the vicinity He was informed
that if the demand was not com
piled with a warship would be at
one of his ports in twenty-four
hours. Still he doubted. The next
day "A German man-of-war appeared
on the horizon at Vera Cruz. Huerta
was told that if the $500, 900 was
not paid in forty-eight hours the
port would be seized and the money
collected. And then the proud Cas-
lillian handed over the dough.
1t will be an item of INTEREST to
Marietta people to be told that Mr..
+. n. Brown, president of the great
system of Mexican railroads. is a
brother of Mr.. N. w. l.. Brown, man
ager of the Kennesaw Paper Com
pany.
JOSIAH CARTER.