Evening journal., 1914-08-25
MEXICO WITHOUT HUERTA
NOW DIFFERENT COUNTRY

for we expected that secret service
men might be waiting foy us on the
station platform And so. one by one,
we made our way through the depot
crowd. But the expected taps on
the shoulder didn't come Only a
horde of yelling hotel commits
siOnaries laid their haads on us.
Mexican and English newspaper man
greeted us
ITS all right" said the Mexican,
who used to do his writing in Texas.
welcome TO our city. The old man
has beat IT, The fly cops have faded
away There are 5000 Zapatistas on
the outskirts of the city hammering
to get in. and Hueria mas left only
500 soldiers IN the city You fellows
arc going to see the city looted like
chicken coop. You're here just in
time for the big blow-ofi."
Even the streets seemed different as
our coach rolled along through the
rain The presence of horror was no
more train had carried 70 away
Peace seemed to brood over the
domes and parks and streets and
homes OF the great Mexican city.
What if the zapatstas were fighting
to enter the city? What If the woun-
ded and dying Federals Of that brave
I little band Of 500 we're being brought
/ into the city in coaches and street
cars. What if the great auto truck,
/ loaded with Mexican Red Cross nur-
/ ses. dashed past us toward the subur-
| ban battlefield? What even. II the
Zapatistas did come into the city?
I They were a danger that q man could
] to nd Hu
/ hand TO hand They were not an un-
soeable. untouchable, unfrightable
terror. such as the Pullman car had
drawn away. That was how we felt
and that was how the people of Mex
leo felt that night after Huerta had
gone
BY the next day Mexico had begun
TO find itself again. The morning
| newspapers began TO tell of the ter
rible things Huerta had done; Of the
awful crimes Of murders and assas-
sinations; OF millions of money which
the fleeing Huertists had taken with
item; of how Huerta had looted the
public ZOO at the last moment and
given a banquet of deer. bear and
game bird meat how his henchmen
had matched pennies among them
selves for government automobiles
which they carried away with them
how one cabinet minister named Lo-
sGno mad almost Drained his chauffeur
with a bottle as a drunken farewell ;
, how Urrutia. now finding shelter in
the United States. had murdered and
, tortured some of Meyico's wisesi
men: how Moheno also had sold pre-
cious concessions for a song. Be
, reaved families began to search open.
+ ly in graveyards and prisons fol
, knowledge of relatives Flowers were
toted by the ton to Madero's grave
4 The truth came out. Each man IN
, the capital was his own mans man
/ Mexico knew she was facing a new
day and new chance to climb q
her place among other nations.
It's here in the capital that on
sees most clearly the patience. kind
!. ( ness. bigness and dignity with whicl
t the United States, sponsor and pro
e tector Of the Republican form O
X government on this globe, big brothc
. Of all nations that have president
{ instead of kings. has treated an
|. helped the Republic of Mexico as
i stumbled and staggered through IN
d dark days of Huerta's tyranny. Lool
!. ing at il from here. it makes 70
7, proud TO be an American.