Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1913-11-12
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Mrs. John Lind Gives Some Inside |
Lights on the Troubles Of
Mexico. sz. HITCH
q Pity for the Mexican women was
the strongest impression brought
back from Mexico by Mrs. John Lind,
who returned yesterday from Wash
ington. Mrs. Lind spent two months
in Mexico with her husband this fall
while Mr.. LIND was executing his mis-.
sion as special envoy Of President
Wilson to .Huerta.
81 never saw anything so abject as
the condition Of the women OF Mex
leo" said Mrs. Lind at her home on
Colfax avenue south, to reporter of
the Minneapolis Tribune. This APP
plies to all classes. It's common. re
port. in Mexico City that the well-to-
do Mexican keeps a harem. AS for
women Of the peon class, they are
subjected to terrible abuse at the
hands Of their husbands or male rela.
tives.
Puiques Shops Called Bad. :,
AL around Mexico City for, miles
you see nothing except the haciendas
surrounded by fields of maguey, the
plant from which the Mexicansi make
pulque, a drink which Produces much
the same effect as opium, and ..on al
most every street corner in the city
is a government drinking shop. /
heard bitter complaints against the
government for keeping these places
open at night, the result being that
the laborers, after receiving their pay,
often spend it all for pulque and have
nothing left to take home to. their.
families. Then the women must, work,
and they are abused by. their men in
other ways. IS. s.. 5 .@ -. x.
Drive Slaves With Whips and Guns.
On these haciendas the poems are
driven to their work by slave drivers
with whips and guns. understand
all the laborers are paid something,
the wages running from 25 to SO cents
a day, but they are driven hard and
at times brutally beaten. met one
haciendado, or owner of hacienda,
an American who came from Mime
sofa. I cant tell you his name, but
called him a traitor to his country
He kept slave drivers just. like the
rest and he was strong pro- uerta
man. couldn't talk to him without
getting cross, /" added Mrs. Lind.
This was Mrs. Lind's first a1lusion
to politics in Mexico. II met a num-
Der of Mexicans who were high in Of
fetal circles when they called on Mr..
Lind" she said in response to a CUES.
ton, "and they impressed me as ex-
ceptionally clever, but somehow still
like children. Huerta appears to be
much of a child, but Gamboa, who is
declared by SO many to be the real
brains of the Huerta administration,
is a wonderfully keen man Z and a
scholar. It was common talk in Mex
leo City that he would have: been
$500 piIsiuen. 90 ne appears 70 We
does. the Catholic party. But it was
W. AnoWn ..nere elia. Hue -. sent SCI
~ ~ s.l u.e1ous - MS neut4n ian 5
tnae I1uei. - anu it7s1 was the
t,sAet tlat nuse oe returned ,l ' but
= ue.'ei not .t1lh poiltlcs. ...
Little Occasion for uneasiness.
There was only one time when /
felt at ali: uneasy while we were in
Mexico and that was when we left
the train at the capital. Consul Can.
ada at Vera Cruz insisted upon going
with us to Mexico City. He offered to
get us a special car, but we refused.
said. I want to go with the crowd. :
for we didn't know what might hap
pen. Then he asked us when we
would go, but we didn't want the time
tie train IL the s mornine - % :,
decide to go because my orders are