Mexico weekly ledger., 1914-05-07
|. NJ. WHITE HAS
NEW LIGHT ON
MEXICAN QUESTION

san Antonio. April zes 1918.
We spent the day in historic San
Antonio and incidentally had a
new light thrown on the present
strainec relationship OF the United
States and Mexico. The nearer you
come to the Mexican border the
more you find Huerta in greater IA
vor with the Americans and he
Constitutionalists almost without a
friend. The farther you go from
the border this condition becomes
reversed. 1t seems most of the dep
relations and insults along the
Rio Grande, which separates Texas
from Mexico. have been the work OF
the Constitutionalists.
There are 3 5000 Mexicans n
San Antonio and since the present
crisis developed extra police have
been on duty in the Mexican part
of the city and three companies Of
National Guards are held ready for
immediate action in the City Hall,
THE Mexican part of San Antonio
is typical of that Southern Re
public and the cattle In Missouri en-
joy more sanitary and healtaful
homes than do these ignorant poems
from the South.
Mrs. White and ! were the
guests Of MIR. and Mrs. John Hill
and their lovely daughter. Miss
Nellie Hill, for dinner this even
ing. They have a beautiful brick
home on a prominent residence
street. The yard has pecan and
fig trees as well as palms aud Is
tropical in all its surroundings. They
are all enjoying the best OF
health and are Ideally situated. Mr..
Hill says he considers Mexico
home and hopes TO return for
good in the not-distant future.
James l.. Edwards, who is state
editor Of the Morning Express in
San Antonio. will return TO Mis-
souri, in a few weeks, having come
to Texas only for the winter. HI
! looks better than he has for years
and when the management learned
of his Intended return home made
him a flattering offer to remain.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. A. Potts are
both we'll, though we did not SEE
them. John Potts has charge o.
their immense ranch and Joe re
mains at home with his parents.
Simms is a buyer in the hat de
partment of n Of the largest storeI
in San Antonio and though compar
atively youthful. has made a wonder
full success in his chosen field.
He has worked up from the bottom
In a very short time.
In talking to a prominent news
: paperman from Old Mexico. VIII
has Just returned from the seat o
, war where he had been for al
Eastern paper and where a bullet
wound disabled him for active duty.
we learned of some Of the unusua
conditions with which the United
: States will have to cope during thel
invasion. The Mexican newspapers
have announced that the Southern NJ
h groes have revolted in the Unit
0 ed states and that Germany and Ems
land are at war with us SO tina
n a Mexican victory in the preser
h Misunderstanding is only a matter
L e short engagement or two. tn
Mexioans, who still remember tn
successful revolution Of the Texan
y when they gained liberty, sa
! they could defeat this country ca
of lily if Texas were eliminated.
On He went on to state that fe'
OF the Mexicans can read and the
,ir we're being told IL the United State
tn succeeded in defeating Huerta the
would have their heads cut off an
or suffer other indlgnities and 70
10 lures. This newspaper man sa,
the only way the advance of O
ne army can be made successful is
10 send ahead natives to tell that o
conquest Is not one Of torture al
eonfiscatlon but to uplift the race.
The interest in the war here
III ! 49,. "