The Republican journal., 1914-09-24
ANARCHY IN MEXICO.
Americans At Vera Cruz at the Mercy OF
Brigands and Wild Indians. No Protec-
ton for Life or Property.

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ton for Life or Property.
Sir Lionel Garden, one-time British
minister to Mexico and recently appoint.
ed minister to Brazil, before sailing from
New York last week for Liverpool gave
the New. FORK City News Association the
following statement concerning the with
drawal of American troops from Vers
Cruz:
cit is desperate shame that the
United States has seen fit to abandon
the decent people of Mexico when they
most need help. do not know the
reason for this. but it would seem that
! President Wilson has been misinformed
/ in some matters, and that if another side
of the situation has been brought to his
attention he has not seen fit to listen to
anything that contradicts those who
have told him that the country has beer
| paeified.
"The people who did not get protection
in Mexico City and elsewhere went to
Vera Cruz for protection. What will
they do now? They have no means OF
getting away, and will be left to the
mercies of the lawless element that will
Immediately overrun the town and coun-
try.
when it is said that State of abso-
lutte anarchy exists in Mexico it is not
stating the facts too strongly. There
were some 1000 good policemen in the
City of Mexico, but these have been sup
planted by an army of IS, 900 soldiers
that fought the Federal Government, and
among these are several thous ands of
wild Yaqui Indians, who two months ago
fought with bows and arrow as the only
weapons they knew. Imagine these wild
men turned loose in the streets of great
city, with no law to govern them and
with the residents at their mercy.
Neither life, liberty nor property is
safe, and whenever an officer so desires
he may turn family out of its home and
commander everything. There is no
redress, for there are no courts. no con-
gress, no laws-nothing but anarchy and
military despotism, with not even su-
preme chief to oversee that.
"Huerta had some sort of govern
ment; Carranza has none whatever; the
only claim he has to greatness is his
physique, and that is not so terrifying,
either. There is not even martial law
there, because there is no organization.
The Zapatistas, wild, roaming bands of
brigands, every few days assault the
water works of Mexico City. which are
only thirty-fve minutes ride from the
city. and are all the time trying to get
into town. They are driven away by
superior forces, but again make an as
sault when they feel inclined. But this
is only an instance.
"For months the Carranza party has
held the northern tier of States; yet has
it established government? 1t has not.
And there does not seem to have been
any attempt to do so. There never has
been an honest election down there and
there never will be until the bands of
brigands that infest the land be subdued.
What can one expect when these bands
roam and pillage wherever they wish?
They have no laws, no controlling force.
They murder and plumber where they
will, with no penalty if caught.
eff there is to be an ultimate settle
ment of the Mexican troubles it must be
brought about by the United States.
That would take 100000 men many
years and vast sum of money. There
would lie no glory in it for the United
States-onIy the principle of the thing
and it is question if the greater per
cent would care to foot the BILL"