Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-12-02
RICH AMERICANS
Behind VILLA,
CARRANzIST CRY
tBy Latest NALL

Ell PASO, Tex-Gen. CarranZa,
. through his accredited representative
10 the United States. charges the
state departments representative in
I Mexico with selling out to Gen Vii
/ las faction. This and other almost
equally sensational charges are en-
bodied in a communication, signed by
Roberto F. Pesqneira, Gen. CarranZa' s
CHIEF representative. The communica'
ton was sent to Washington, to be
. delivered to the state department by
the Mexican agency at the capital. II
reads in part:
TO Constitutionalist Headquarters
! Washington, d. -.
II think ii is my duty to inform you
of the facts in this letter so that you
! can communicate 10 the American de
: partment Of state. that it may be put
to rights in the matter of our declared
/ enemy, Francisco Villa.
First - Let me inform you that
, Villas true name Is Doroteo arrange
; He has assumed the name of Fran
cisco Villa only FOR reasons known to
+ himself, and history alone will tell
what crimes his trde name of Doroteo
Arrange may hide. This fact We should
like the state department and the Am
, erican public to know.
Threat to Invade the United States.
f"Second-Please tell them that In
June OF this year, when the first
breach came between this Arrange and
Gen. Carranzas arrange and his off
GERS and agents committed several
brutal assaults. on the persons sof the
/, constitutionalist officers and employees
in Ciudad Juarez; looted the National
Treasury, that was then located there
and at the very moment that he was
openly declaring ffriendship Flor the
United States, he was threatening to
invade this nation at Ell Paso, and de.
clared to his closest advisers that he
would conquer the nation in a few
months campaign. r.
"Third-Please let them know that
when few months ago Arrange was
declaring that the conduct OF the Unit.
ed States was justified in the Vera
Cruz matter he was at the same time
swearing vengeance upon this nation,
and that while he. at that time, jtsti.
fled his published statements on the
grounds of hatred for the Huertistas
: and Cientificos, he is today accepting
these same Huertistas and Csentificos
and ex.Federalst with open arms and
allying himself with the very men
; whom the revolution sought to put out
OF power In Mexico. e = &c..
FOURTH think that the Washing
ton Administration, and especially Mr.
Wilson himself should know, in view
OF his Mobile speech and the senti
ments that he expressed then, that
! the special interests that have played
such an Important part in american
politics and sustained the corrupt AID
minfstrations of the past are in league
with this same Doroteo Arrange to pu,
him In power in Mexico and enjoy
rare concessions. in that country and
exploit the nation as has heretofore
been done. y = :, tf=T:. 80 ~. .,...
( Hearst and Otis His Friends.
= would CALI attention to the sig
nificant fact that The Hearst chain Of
papers, who are In this country Mr.
!; Wilson'S mortal enemies, are 1endins
their columns to the air of Araiiso IN
every move he makes: that Harrison
Gray Otis Of the Los Angeles Times
Is taking the same attitude; that tht
Guggenheim interests wish to make d
Mexico a field Of exploitation likt
Alaska and Colorado and to that enc
are, we sincerely believe, lending no
only support but also financial aid t.
the Arrange revolt. hoping to sea-
arrange In dictator's chair and thu.
gain the field of exploitation sought.
+ .. r