The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1915-10-21

, TO enlistment in the army Of destruc
! tion are the only assignable causes fol
! these acts. In other respects, in the
outrages upon the church and the
church people, and in the universal
desecration of Mexico's womanhood
there is no noticeable difference in the
methods Of the factions.
OF all the special American investi.
gators who have reported to the Ad-
ministration on Mexican conditions
the best-informed, and therefore the
most dependable, is DR.. Henry Allen
Upper Of the International Peace
Forum. There were a few months at
the beginning in which DR.. Upper
was not without hope that Carranza
would do what Mr.. Bryan wished, and
he is again to-day for some reason
do not understand, cherishing the hope
that Carranza is the coming man in
Mexico. He labored patiently to that
end, only to discover that Carranza
was merely a sign under which
business of unspeakable villany was
carried on.
His discoveries, promptly communi-
Gated to Mr.. Bryan, proved unwel
come. Dr. Upper kept on, at his own
expense, but his secret advices to
Bryan have not yet seen the light of
day.
The lawlessness of Carranza's ad-
vance agent, Blanco, and his savages
when they entered Mexico City in
August, 1914, was a vivid demonstra-
tion to DR.. Upper of the awfulness
of the thing we were aiding, and
he withheld nothing of it from the
Secretary of State. He was in Mexico
City during the months Carranza was
enthroned there. The burlesque of
government carried on by the First
Chief, the desperate greed of his Off
GERS and men and the free hand they
were allowed in robbing and killing,
the unprintable outrages on church
men and churchwomen and the de-
bauching and ruin of churches-these
things DR.. Upper reported with ex-
actness to Mr.. Bryan at Washington.
1t was dependable information, and it
came with deep regret from DR.. Tup
per, who saw the abyss into which we
had plunged by the Administrations
unwise support of unworthy men.
The reader is now doubtless begin
ming to ask, if Carranza is vicious,
corrupt and incapable leader, how did
he obtain the money and munitions
necessary to carry on his revolution
airy campaign?
Carranza started out in March,
1918, with 10000 pesos, worth then
$4,000. Villa had nothing. Where
did they and their followers get the
$50,O00,000 spent with us or now on
deposit with our banks and CONNER
cia houses?
Ransoms from rich merchants and
churchmen, fines, arbitrary export and
import duties, gambling house licens-
es, etc, etc, raised perhaps $8,000,
900. The other $42,O00,000 was rea
lized by dealings with us. First, by
selling to US all manner of merchant
able stuff taken by force from those
who owned it. Second by exchanging
their fiat issues Of worthless paper
currency for the currency Of the United
States with our border traders, our
bankers and those Of US who attempt
ed to do business Of any kind beyond
the Rio Grande. Official statistics of
exports and imports to and from the
United States substantiate these
assertions. will content myself with
one item. In the year ending June 80,
1911, the last year of normal condi
tions, our imports from Mexico am
ounted to $57,000,000. For the year
ending June 30, 1915, when three
quarters of the area Of Mexico was in
turmoil and the inhabitants were
starving, our imports from Mexico
amounted to S92,000,000. Of this |
amount substantially all the cattle and
coffee and large part of the hides
and henequin, amounting altogether to
SAT 100000, were sent to us through |
revolutionary-that is to say, bandit
venders. This merchandise was taken
by force from its rightful owners, and
Carranza was party to the transac-
tions. When we bought it, we knew it
TO be 50; we bought il at lower prices
on that account. We knew that for
the most part the money we paid for
ii would be used to buy arms to be
employed in killing and coercing
people in order that more merchant
able stuff might be offered to US at the
same favorable rates.
The henequin or sisal hemp crop is
a big thing for Yucatan, and figures in
Meyico's normal exDorts at about