Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-07-09
20 PER CENT have
NOT THIEVES HONOR
Mixed Indian and Spanish Mexi.
cans Make All the
Trouble.
Jack London in Golfers.

Are pure Indians; Is per cent are pure
Spanish, Americans, English. and other
foreigners. The remaining 20 per cent
are mixed Indian and Spanish. 1t Is
ttn1s mixed 20 per cent that, according
TO the stay at home American notion
constitutes the Mexican, and practical
ly the totally Of the Mexican popula-
ton.
And 1t is just precisely this 20 per
cent half-breed class that foments all
! the trouble. plays childishly with the
toois OF giants, n makes a shambles
a chaos Of the land. These
breeds" represent neither the great
working class, nor h property owning
Slass. nor the picked men Of the United
States and Europe who have given
what measure Of exotic civili-
cation 1t possesses. These breeds
are thes predatory class. They produce
notnlng. They create nothing. They
shake down" the people who work
and the people who develop.
AS l have said Before, they are de-
Vold, even of thieves honor. They can
not trust one another. They cannot be-
heve n another. For once, each cor
rectly. conceives the next one in his
own image. Aware, in his heart Of
hearts, that he wants nothing less than
lVo per cent of the swag, that only by
accident could yer be guilty of telling
n truth to a fellow robber. that he ia
bent Upon o~ver-reaching
an9 embarrassing his fellow COM
races OF %looters. he cannot expect any
thing else from his fellows.
To paraphrase Kipling. the consist
ehcy OF these half breeds is to know no
shred OF consistency. Because of this
n are not even. Successful robbers.
Tammany could give them cards and
spaces IN the game they play and win
Jul against them hands down.
Ihey are brave on occasion. But thew
are not courageous. Their honor and
ValoF reside in their tongues. They are
tourncoats from moment to moment.
They will dine in the homes Of their
grlneo friends one evening, and, be-
aoIe daylight, go cunning for their
gaiGso friends and for the pay rolls and
They. are what the mixed breed al
WaVs is-neither fish, flesh, nor fowl.
Ihey are neither white men nor IN
d1ans. Like the Eurasian, they possess
an the vices Of their various com
hilngled bIoods n none of the virtues.
,ca ~ Is impossible for the average Amer
.can TO understand them. Honor is one
thing to theno. another thing to an
American; $ % likewise with truth
prob1ty, and sincerity. There is no
compromising them by the rules Of
q n forms Of reasoning habttu-
a. - 10 the American, AS a sample Of
TINS. ! relate the following federal ex-
PLANTATION Of the killing Of az Am.r-
cans at San Pedro in the state ~
Chiapas. eao oA
h is the way the Mexican autbor;-
YES explain the mishap: When the
amereans took possession Of Vera
cfuz. the authorities in Chtapas
fearful for h safety of the handfni
OF american small farmers. because ~
tne 1nflamed condition Of the popuIaca
sen a detachrnept Of rurales to resc1,a
them. When the Americans saw the
armed body Of rurales approaching
tSa a : tney We're about to be attacked,
me parr1caded themselves in n Of
aae.r houses. So intent was the rescue
party on saving them that a hot fire
was opened on the house. For thrae
hours the rurales toiled heroica1lv 81
me task of rescue. pouring a heavv
nTe IN the house from every side. Al
the end Of this time. the six Ameri.
can men being dead. the rurales stornad
the mousse n saved the lives Of an
american girl Of 10 and an American
ooy OF -. whom they bore away
70 pc mobbed through the streets ~
lu2tia Gutierrez ere they Were safely
put in Jail. $50 safely
Now it is not the killing that is the
uolit, OF illustration. It is the explana-
tion made by the Mexicans Of the hor-
rfbse mistake made by the Americansin
not understanding that the rurales msara
iescuing them. Surely no American
nor European brain could con-
celVe such an explanation. We could
no more imagine that such an aynIau.
11aeson Would hold water than wn,Ild
we commit a three hours attack IN
persons we We're trying to save.