New Britain herald., 1914-07-07

replied that if it came to a show down we would surely do our best and that he had better not make any mistake or false move. l think i upon his return to town his report i was not favorable, for we were not attacked. but the gunboat. Progresso, | was in the river and refused to let | us out We finally got permission l to go from Tlacotalpam and then Alvarado refused to let us go; then Alvarado agreed to let us out, and 1 the Progresso would not let us out. l Finally, after eleven days and nights | of this, four of us always on duty day and night while the other five l slept on a cement floor among the most vicious swarms of mosquitoes 1 and chiquistas that it was ever my misfortune to meet the Progresso also agreed to let us slip past at o'clock in the morning. l suppose this was in order to save their honor. We left in little fishing smack with one mast and little chug. chug en- zine, and after q little rough weather getting over the bar at Alvarado we arrived at Vera Cruz May 6, fifteen days after leaving san Gabriel (plan- tation).
 We brought out MT. Everest $ mother, 75 years old, with us, and MT. Steele took her out with him on the steamer, Esperanza, to New Orleans and from there by rail to Chicago, where he sent her on her way to New Jersey.
 Safe At Last.
 Now that we are safe here we sometimes laugh over our eXper- fences. but I assure you that at the time there was no fun about it, and we are very glad to be here with whole skins. We have heard sew eral times from the plantation and aside from taking few more than 100 men which cost us about $3,50O, no damage was done. The author ities at Plaza Vicente have helped Don Mancho keep order. and have taken an inventory of the property in the name of the Alcalde and ap- pointed, or put Don Mancho in charge, posting notices to that effect. He has had lot of trouble, but so, far has been able to hold things together and I hope he may be able to hold them down, for with 'watchful waiting 1t is hard to tell when, if ever, we can get back. as I have been notified that they will shoot me OF sight. but some day hope to be able to return and do little shoot ing myself, and I hope that it will not be all with my mouth, as is the case with these people.
 This long drawn out wall which, no doubt, has tired you out long ago. Is only one of the forty thousand walls that have gone up from abused and outraged Americans in Mexico. Most of these people have worked anywhere from ten years to a life time to accumulate perhaps a little or great deal of property, as the case may be; anyway it has been their life work and most of those like myself, have been here so long, that it would be next to impossible to leave here and break into a new game in the States with any degree of suc- cess.
 Were these conditions brought about by any natural cause. or any fault or shortcomings of ourselves we would not make such a howl, but to have 1t brought about by a meddle- some old schoolmarm, and the cause being his personal spite against Huerta, and to have him carry it along under his hypocritical cloak of high morals, is what makes me boil, and now after precipitating the tray- edy by landing troops in Vera Cruz, why don't he let them go along to Mexico City as every one or them want to do and not hold them here champ ing their bits, while he keeps up that farce of mediation which no sane. man who knows Mexico and Mexicans but knew was foolishness from the start, and was only a ruse of Huerta to gain more time, and in every move that he has made he has demonstrated that he has outgeneraled Wilson, making him the laughing stock of the world. It is not often that I go off on a tangent of this kind, but it seems to me that I cannot find a stopping place, and I have not made a start at telling you of the ruin that has overtaken Americans in Mexico by this utterly foolish policy pursued by Wilson and Bryan.
 Yours truly
 GEORGE S. GOULD,