The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1914-05-14
WHAT BRYAN'S PEACE POLICY
is ACCOMPLISHING FOR US
LIVES OF AMERICANS WORTH NOTHING
0ur N'uzens Robbed Matreated and Stripped of Their
ALL While We Fritter Our Time Away at
Peace Making.

don't know whether this confisca-
ton goes or not. l suppose it does If
'hat Bfyan has his way. l buy all my
goods in the States-household and
farming l won't any more, though, If
they withdraw the troops now, because
won't have anything to buy them
with"
when do you expect to start back
to your ranch?'
You mean If the troops withdraw
because of this mediation?'
yes"
Never. No American will be safe
In the interior for the next 20 years IL
the troops withdraw. l could have liv-
ed on by paying ransom. paid one
OF $4,000 to the rebels, and they also
told me to quit working; but 1 didn't.
But now l couldn't even get back to
my ranch. I'd be killed on the way
First we slap 'em in the eye here at
Vera Cruz and then we run away. Well
what do you think they'd think of
Fus?"
1T is amusing to be reproached by
Mr.. Bryan for opening up this country
to American trade" remarked Edwin
Shapey tall, calm, young mining en-
gineer from Philadelphia, who has de-
veloped mining property in Durango.
Juana Juatio, Jalsco "for our offense
Is only that of our forefathers We
are pioneers. Future generations of
politicians and publicists will doubt
less call us blessed though this one is
trying to bust us.
Thank God l am rot married, any
way, because / am not English If I
We're an Englshman, l know I'd be pro-
tected. Now ] have plenty of evidence
III won't
THE rebels came into my house, took
what they could carry and wantonly
ruined what they could not carry They
cut my harness all to pieces-that they
couldn't carry / am fond of music, as
lit breaks the monotony of the noun
ftains-they took my guitar up that was
lying the bed and smashed 1t to
flinders-wantonly, for no reason.
Il had an English friend and he gave
me his English passport. 1 came from
Jalisco in train carrying the English
flag" he continued, thank God for the
English flag"
Return VIII Not Be Attempted.
when are you going back to the
property"
ing to the City of Mexico?'
Yes"
"Never. None of the Americans will
If the troops withdraw now after TAX
ing Vera Cruz no Americans life will
be worth a cigarette in the interior for
the next dozen years. We all have to
give power of attorney to some Mexi-
, can to sell what hasn't been burned for
whatever 1t will bring.
'.There were about 10000 of us In
Mexico when this revolution business
started, all pioneers of our kind OF
civilization, and our kind of civiliza-
ton seems to have gone back on us.
"There are 100, 900 square miles OF
government land left in Mexico-much
of it the best-the mines haven't been
/ exploited to 5 per cent of their value
with drainage and irrigation the coun-
try will support a splendid population
of white farmers.
"Remember, the climate is temperate
an year round on the great plateau
which includes most of Mexico, except
a 30mile strip along each seacoast"
bitches Wantoniy Destroyed.
Fright you are, old boy" said George
Cheeseman. 81 came from San Luis
Potosi last, and from California before
that, so 1 know a good climate when
see It, And San Luis has the best In
| the world.
But what are you going to do with
bunch coming out of the hills and
cross-cutting and filling your irriga-
tion bitches and breaking the wheel
That's what they did to me. Set zoo
poems to filling up my bitches. Yes
sir. Can you beat it?'
when are you going back to thai
fine climate?'
"If the troops withdraw? Never
Americans are finished in Mexico for
ever II the Mexicans get the idea they
chased us out"