The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1914-05-14

VERA CRUZ. April 29-"I know Mr.
Bryan says every one in the American
eo'eny IN Mexico is an adventurer and
gambler and ought to so home to the
states in case of trouble. Or else that
he Is corporation employe and so,
suppose, ought to be burned alive
well, am corporation employe of
the Pasadena FL Mate Mining company
of Guanajuato, Mexico It's my own
corporation, however l have spent 10
years of my life developing it. It's all
L have. It's all my famiy's got.
Too Late to Start Again"
Mr.. Bryan says to me, start again.
Start again with what? / am nearly so
years old. Mining--and especially that
particular mine of mine-is all / know
and it's all l have-had, rather"
c. j. Kimball a keen faced, clear
eyed, bronzed faced man, was speaking.
1T isn't as If ] were a gambler and
adventurer l am not" he continued
Il am business man, and | know my
business. 1t isn't as if had been harsh
or abusive with my Mexican employees.
always got on fine with them AL
ways would have if it wasn't for these
everlasting revolutions one after an
other sweeping over the country.
'Do you see this suit / have on and
this pair of shoes and hat and watch?
It's my last suit and last pair of shoes.
got them from the States. | got my
phonograph from the States, and my
rocking chairs, and brass beds. About
all my reading matter comes from the
States. SO do my clocks and plumbing,
canned goods and kitchen utensils.
Americans Develop Market.
"Well, that wouldn't be important if
1t were not that the rest of the 10000
Americans in Mexico buy their house
hold goods as well as their mining
machinery farm Implements and so on
from the States.
Even that wouldn't be so particular
ly importantly, 900 Americans, though
most have money and are heavy pur
chasers of American goods. But 49,
900 aren't by themselves a tremendous
market.
1.-The nub of the thing lies deeper
Mexicans are all learning from us to
buy American goods. If you doubt me.
look at the figures America sells
Mexico $54, 600 900 annually, three times
as much as all other nations put to-
gether Twenty years ago when 1 came
the imports into this country from the
United States were $12,000,000.
"Does Mr. Bryan want to throw this
big and growing market away? Looks
to me as If he does, If this mediation
goes through.
People viii Thing Troops Fled.
Because if we land these troops and
then re-embark them, every peon in
Mexico will be told they were chased
out, and no American will be safe in
the interior for 20 years AS it is we
have been walking in the middle of
the street, giving the spicks the side
walk for the last year. Now, Mr..
Bryan won't let us even take the mid
die of the street"
II have been in Mexico 23 years,
said D. ]. Spilane, a gray -whiskered
sunburnt man. 1 had a ranch in San
Luis Potosi. Sugar. corn, cattle. 1t was
worth 100000 l came here a poor
man. But earned 1t all and hon
estly.
"I am nothing like what that Bryan
said l am a farmer. I am a good
Catholic. too. l stand by the church.
The bishop of San Luis Potosi is fine
friend of mine. Well, those rebels came
in a week ago yesterday and left me
naked l haven't a coat to my back. y
He was eating in his shirt sleeves.
American VIII Not Be Safe.
"They took my cattle, my horses, my
mules, my wagons, my guns, my sad
dies, everything. Then. to make a
good job of it. they burned my house
and gave me piece of paper" Che
showed a scrawl on the back of an
envelope in bad Spanish) Ito say they
had confiscated my land that 1 worked
on and for, that / irrigated with my
own money"
He stabbed the writing with his
gnarled forefinger.