East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-03-30
MACH|NE-GUN MEN IN
MEXICO OUT OF WORK
BOTTOM HAS FALLEN OUT OF
BUSINESS FOR AMERICAN
ADVENTURES.
The Game is Played Out Along the
Border Declares One American Who
During the OrozcO Revolution Got
$1,000 Week for His Services
Mexicans Learn to Use Guns.

(By staff Correspondent of the United
Press.)
|. MEXICO CITY, March 30.-The
bottom has fallen out of business for
American adventurers along the bor-
der. Tracy Richardson. one of the
star machine gun men in the Mexican
revolution, developed this fact with
great care and regret in a conversati-
on with the staff correspondent of the
United Press.
1.-The games played out along the
border" said Richardson, who has
fought under villa, Salazar and Oro-
ECO. at different times. "In the early
days of the Orozco revolution against
Madero ] got $1,000 week 1t was
when Orozco looked like a winner and
some big American concerns We're
putting lot Of money to his cause,
hoping that he would make so much
trouble that the United States would
have to wave the stars and stripes
over Mexico. But, at the end of three
weeks, Orozco had been licked three
times by Madero's soldiers and my
fine wages stopped. I've run machine
guns in more South American revolu.
tons than / care to tell about but
that was the highest salary l ever got
To-day there are 1000 young fell
lows along the Rio Grande who are
crazy to handle machine guns for
either side of the revolution. They
don't want any wages. All they seek
is glory, adventure and plenty to eat.
It's the money we professional revo-
lutionists are after. It's the moving
pictures and two or three magazines
Of adventure that have killed our
game. They make young fellows want
to do desperate things. OF course,
way down in the interior of Mexico,
where there's hard fighting and where
the American newspapermen can't see
the young heroes at work, those young
fellows could get plenty of jobs. But
they want to stay near the Rio Grande
where they're not too far from home
and where they're under the eyes of
the war correspondents.
"And what's more," continued Rich
ardson, with regret, these Mexicans
have been fighting for about three
years and they've developed some fine
machine gunsmen among themselves,
had us American machine gun men
among them so long"
/ asked Richardson about the Mex
| leans as fighters. Cant beat EN-
he said, when they get started
They're the fiercest chargers in the
world. Salazar, for instance, made
charge at Ojinaga, and the Ameri-
can officers on the other side of the
river who saw it, said it was one OF
the best planned and bravest charges
they had ever seen."
"If you stop to think" said Rich.
ardson, "there are few men like VII
Ia Orozco. Salazar and Campo, who
have zeen fighting continually the pas'
three years. Their experience has
turned them into first class militar.
men. You can't show me a countr,
in the world whose generals have hat
as much actual experience in rea
warfare as those Mexican revolution
lists have had. They're the real goods
when it comes to military leadership
They haven't learned in school bu
they have picked up some wonderful
lessons in the field"
The talk turned to the gruesome
ness of war. You get over that" sale
the gun man. when you get into {
fight you don't stop to think that thu
other fellows are human beings witt
mothers and sisters. fathers and bro
theirs just like you have. You feel a
X they were only man-killing animals
who'll kill you II you don't kill then
first"