Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1913-03-13
MEXICAN R[v0lTS
PART Of PLOT TO
PLUMBER, He SAYS
Investigator Says Wall Street Is
Seeking to Bankrupt and
Reorganize National
Railways.
FIGHT FOR OIL FIELDS
C. F. z. Caracristi Declares Am
bassador Wilson Aided Both
Madero and Huerta-
Diaz Revolutions.

Madero and Huerta-
Diaz Revolutions.
Laredo. Tex. March &c +: G.
S,ar;,cris,i. an engineer of internation-
al repute and special observer on be
half of the United States government
as Il, conditions in Mexico. declared
III an interview here that Ambassador
Henry Lane Wilson should be at once
replaced by a man who Will more thor
ouyhly protect honest American inter
ests. who has no ties to either Mexican
powers or big business I'm the United
States
Mir. Caracristi. who spent eight or
after the Madero revolution. which dis
placed Porfirio Diaz. was employed
last ye;,r to make confidential report
for the United States border commits
sion ON what the real political condi-
lions We're in the southern repubilc.
Wilson Is Accused.
Mir. caracristi declares that Ambas
sador Wilson was sympathetic. not only
with the Madero revolution which
overthrew Pcrfirio DiaZ, but also with
the latest revolution which resulted IN
the displacement and murder of Ma
-dero.
He began his statement by describ
ing the financial condition of Mexico.
When Madero forced the abdioation OF
porfirio lJiaz. Mr.. Caracrist said Dia2
left behind him $72.Go0.o0O IN cash IN
the treasury and National Railway
stock to the amount OF $3bo,ouo. linen
he continued:
..All Of this money has disappeared.
The railway stock has been hypothe-
Gated TO Wall street Insurers and the
country has i,een saddled With an aa,
ditional foreign debt. including unpaid
~ ~
Bonds Greatly Deprecated.
'Also when Diaz left office there
were outstanding national state. rail-
way and industriaT bonds to the sum
OF $650,000.O00, which stood in the
worlds open markets practically at
par Today the average value of these
same securities is 60 cents on the dol
lar therefore, in two years OF the
Madrro regime the for ign investors
have host in shrfnkage of bonds alone
the enornl6ns sum of 1860. o0O. .O90: :sssS;
he decrease in the value nt rail.
\ syfssassteeis. plaHfa lions oWhed by for
.eign capitalists and injury to foreign
owned mines will reach the sum Of
z $5O.0O0,e00 including depreciation of
the stock of the National Railways Of
Mexico
Big Melon TO Cut.
but these items do not include the
destruction of physical property owned
ways. i, must not be forgotten that
the National Railways of Mexico.
while apparently government property.
are in reality only nonlinally held by
that government. The goTernmen;
purchased over 10 per cent of the com
mon stock While nearly $500.0o0,0o0
worth of bonds and other preferred
obli,- tions are held by American and
foreign interests.
The failure TO pay interest on the
eNels.ip a.,u ,..i s,.i ION.
MI, f,,.n, NO nart ~. iatarest vben
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American Money Behind War?
''Those of us who have been on the
ground and have had an opportunity
10 investigate the situation have felt
for a long time that the Mexican war
has been carried OH With American
money in order to bankrupt the gov
eminent. take the IL 900 miles of rail-
ways from the nation under foreclos-
ure and also to drive out the British
petroleum interests that control the
"rampieo field
..Thc majority bond holders in the
National Railways are the Standard
oil interests. and the largest indi-
,idual bond holder is Henry clay
Pierce of the Waters Pierce Oil COM
MANY. who are fighting Pearson & Sons.
Limited. and the Shell Trading g.
TRANSPORTATION company (the English
Rothschild interests headed by Sir
Marcus Sampels) for supremacy in
Mexico.
..This statement may explain why MI.
Taft did not act in the affairs of Mex
leo. although American property and
sives We're daily DESTROYED;
Oiaz Favored British Interests.
"l'he foreign interests. aided by the
Taft administration. fostered the Ma
.dero rebellion because General Diaz
had declared against the Standard Oil
interests In favor of the British Pear
sons. And at this moment the presi-
dent of the Compania Nacional de Pc
trolio Tel Aguila. is Enrique Creel.
secretarv of state under Gen. Porfrio
Diaz.
THE interests don't desire interven-