Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-03-19

RESULTING Fl
[ RAGING ]
Army and Navy Journal: The
statements we made some months ago
with reference to the horrible condi.
tons in Mexico are fully confirmed
by facts cited in a speech delivered
in the United States senate March
10 by Hon. Albert B. FAN. Senator
from New Mexico. The statement &C.
complaining Mr.. Falls citation OF
facts that the outrages he relates
have received no adequate attention
from the State Department seems al
most incredible, but he quotes q let,
tor sent by him to the Secretary OF
State. July IS, 1913, in which Mr..
Fall offered to furnish the Depart
ment Of State with a list of 2S4 men,
3d1 women and 1866 children, an
American citizens, who were residing
In Chihuahua and In Sonora and
have been subjected to outrage in
Mexico. This letter received no re-
Spouse from the Secretary OF State
beyond a formal letter acknowledge
ing its receipt. In his letter Mr.. Fall
said: This list does not comprise
more than one-half the American peo-
pie who from Sinoloa, Sonora and
chihuahua alone have been forced to
leave their little homes and lose all
that they had accumulated"
Mr.: Fall quotes from a letter re-
ceived from Mr.. J.. J. Achoa. q native
OF Texas, in which he says: "The fact
is, Senator, for three years last past
the Department Of State, in the face
Of the plainest warnings, now amount
ing to fulfilled prophecies. has acted
upon the apparent belief that the var
iOus temporary chiefs of Mexico were
animated by a desire to do Justice,
and possessed the power to admins
ter it.. We cannot believe that We are
the only persons who long ago called
the truth to the attention of our for
eign office, and Lord knows We have
done 30 often enough. Really, Senator,
it looks as ii We have incurred the i'll
will of a great American department
by our frequent and always unsuc'
ccssfnl efforts to obtain sOme mea.
sure. Of redress for the many clients
who have suffered and are suffering
outrages at the hands of the various
Mexican parties. Every Mexican ex-
cuse, evasion or denial was accepted
as gospel truth, and we regarded or
neglected las IRE ponsible trouble
makers, seeking to mar the friendly
relations existing between two sister
republics. We have twice been solemn
~ reprimanded, because, speaking
through, us. our clients have been
unable to modulate their groans to the
pitch Of diplomatic propriety suitable
to the ears OF the State Department.
but none Of our clinents has ever re.
Ceiyed one particle Of benefit from
the State Department or the Govern
ment t0f the country to which he owes
1t Is a fit subject for the
. comic newspaper-an Amer
lean citizen stretched on the rack Of
Mexican outrage. Or0sco, Salazar,s Vii
Ia, Mercad0, straining at the levers;
and Uncle Sam standing by, and IN.
stead of coming to the relief of their
tortured sufferer magisterially re-.
buking him for his bad manners in
shrieking in such distinguished and.
polished company. Such a cartoon,
Senator. will be but a truthful repre-.
sentatton OF what is not only now the
fact, but has always been the fact
during three continuous years.
Mr.. Fall cites numerous cases OF
the numbering of men and the outrag-
ing Of women which, according to his
statement, have received no proper
attention from 0ur Government.
Here" he says, referring to one
case was a. poor woman, with her
little girl, thirteen years of age, and
her, little hoy seven years of age, in
their house, proceeding about their
business; when soldiers of Mader0's
army entered the house and demand!
ed that the woman should proceed to
cook for them. She did So, and while
she was placing the food on the stove
she was shot. When she fell to the
ground she was compelled to rise
and continue her services for theft
benefit, bleeding as she was. bleed.
ing to death; and, while she was con-
tinuing to cook, her little daughter,
thirteen years Of age, was outraged
in her presence. A neighb0r boy, hear
ing the shot and running to their q.
sistance, was shot in the door Of the
house and killed. The American col.
onists at that time not quite so much
inundated as they have been since.
secured the arrest of the men charg.
ed with this crime and their produo,
ton before the Judge having jurlsdic.
ton Of the case. They admitted their
guilt and made their dispositions ac-
knowledging every fact. They were
punished by six months in Jail and
then turned loose upon the same com
munity."
After citing q long list Of cases Of
Amorionn niti1ono MI rdo - Ne