The Washington herald., 1913-08-17
SENATORFALL,B BORDER PIONEER, TALKS

| Indians listened to the socialists, and
thought the hour of their deliverancs
was near at hand. There Ia race hatred
in Mexico, as have said, and slavery.
ltoo. workman. paid only a pittance.
10 employed on a plantation or In q fac
tory. He is permitted to 60 In debt at
the store of his master. There Is no
other store in the vicinity. Once In debt.
he can never get out Of debt. nor can he
60 away until the last cent In paid. So
he STAYS and remains in bondage 20 long
as he lives.
when Americans began buying Mexi-
can mines they naturally adopted the
Mexican standard of wages. But as more
Americans entered the country competi-
ton followed in the matter Of labor and
the old price of g cents a day in gold
was increased until native miners were
receiving six times their former rate Of
wages. The Indians in the North and
the poems. therefore. looked upon Ameri-
| cans with favor. Thus a friendly feeling
toward Americans has long been growing
| all through the Northern part of the re-
pubic.
Many Mexicnns In This Country.
Moreover. poems were returning to
Mexico from tine United States with loud
praises of the way they were treated In
this country. 1t may surprise a great
| many Americans to learn that between
| 1000 and 1000 Mexicans come to the
United States every year to find work.
They pick cotton in Texas. Louisiana,
Mississippi. Alabama. and Georgia: they.
help to cultivate and harvest the sugar
beet crop of Nebraska and Colorado:
they are the track hands on the rail-
roads west of Texas to California. Good
wages are paid them. and they are per-
mitted to spend their money where they
Please. In short. they are treated like
human beings. When they go home they
spread the news from village to village.
and the next year are followed into
the United States by their relations and
friends
'.All over Northern Mexico the people
have been talking about the good times
and the freedom they enjoy when they
cross the frontier and enter the United
States. Consequently. you can under
stand from all that I have said why 1t
was an easy task to start a revolution.
A leader at the head of a hundred men
would go to a mine and compel the sat
isfed poems and Indians who were at
work to join his command. Groups of
men would break away from him now
and then and go of on expeditions of
their own. So the whole republic is
now nlled with marauding bands OF iR-
norant men who loot villages and in
many places drive women to commit sui
eide. The conditions, and / say 1t de-
liberately. are an outrage on civilization"
The grandfather of Senator Fall was
Baptist preacher in Kentucky. He be-
came an intimate friend Of Alexander
Campbell, founder of the Disciples Of
Christ. and led his congregation at Louis
vile into what was called the Camr-
bellte Church. He was a clergyman I'm
Nashville, Tenn, at the outbreak Of the |
civil war. Senator Fall was born at Pop |
lar Hill, the family farm, which was |
three miles from Frankfort. His father |
had been a Union man. Kentucky had |
notified the country of its neutrality. il ]
would remain passive. so II said. unless |
its sovereign soil should be invaded.
Worked for So = Week.
THE Federals and the Confederates |
marched into the State at about the same |
time" Senator Fall said to me, my
father cast his fortunes with the South. |
was an infant when he left home ana |
was taken to my grandfather, at Nash |
Vile. i remained in my grandfather's |
family until was twelve years old. Ny ]