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A CCoRD1NG 20 the dispatches President Wilson
"a has been appealed TO help secure the release OF
Paul Hudson. editor Of the Mexican Herald. held
under arrest by order Of General Zapata in Mexico
City. / hope the president will respond with suf-
ficient promptness and vigor to accomplish the de-
sired object. for Hudson. I know him personally
is a man OF remarkable attainments. and more than
that IL product Of Kansas Joined with Nebraska
wife For many years Hudson has been publishing
an Engiish-language daily newspaper in Mexico City.
being the news and vehicle OF communication
for American and English residents, and the link
binding the Americans engaged in industrial enter
prses throughout the provinces with the life in the
Mexican capital Naturally the efforts OF the Diaz
government 60 induce American and money 70
develop the country found the Herald very useful
adjunct, and give Il semi-official status with
probably also a generous subsidy.
The successive changes in the ruling power made
trouble for ali the Mexican newspapers and most OF
ALL for the American newspaper During the occupa-
ton Of Vera Cruz Hudson. observing the rule OF
safety first ,transplanted his paper night to
the seaport, where could have the protection OF
the American flag against the anti-Amercan frenzy.
returning later when the portents at the capital
less stormy The publication office of the Herald
when visited II five years ago in a
building facing beautiful park that had formerly
been occupied the American embassy house. and
served an the headquarters and rendezvous, with a
lavish hand Of hospitality, for ell English speaking
visitors
Mrs Hudson used TO 90 20 school here in Omaha
when she known Gussie Price, being a niece
OF the late Jacob Il. Markell The Hudson home in
Mexico City before tho fall Diaz and perhaps
now, II II has escaped marauding onslsughts the
perfection tropical beauty and comfort Incident
ally. Mrs. Hudson has been assiduous collector
Of fine old paintings and and antique porcelains
and furniture, Of which Mexico used to be full OF
never-ending linda
With reference to the final contamination OF
Greater Omaha consolidation. have a pertinent
minder going back fourteen years I'm the form of a
poetcsi effusion with which the Rev. L p Johnson.
then OF South Omaha, responded at a banquet there
TO the toast Annexation" By way OF introduction
he said he did not know what 1t was he expected
20 RnneN-certainy not Iowa Kansas but the
best he could make of the subject was that it
imposed him a sort Of interurban problem, he
tured to manipulate Il metrically as follows
SOUTH oA6AHAs APosTRoPHB
In Is40 Omaha
Was just fine location
Where Rntelopes and buffaoes
Lived the vegetation.
Here camped the dusky Indian
The lord OF ell creation,
That scalped the lucl1less trapper who
Disturbed his meditation.
In 1850. Omaha
Was Just a situation.
Where forty-niners stopped TO drink
bibulous lihation.
Here traied the prairie schooner. oh,
In constant perturbation,
Lest these same dusky Indians
Should cause annihilation.
Was Just big plantation
Where claim clubs proved their lawful right
BY musket condemnation
To everything there was in sight
Belonging to the nation
To live upon n section Yves
approximation
m 1Su Omaha
Was just a railroad station
Where wheels of one George Francis Train
Began their first gyration
Where barroom toughs and section HANDS
without exaggeration.
Would make night hideous with the sound
OF noisy alteration
In 1850 Omaha
Began that great Initiation
A boom. which proved, alas, to be
boomerang drationI
When men believed that buying land
Was their distinct vocation
But found. to try and sell the same.
Another occupation.
IN 1880. Omaha
BY some prevarcaton,
Became a great metropolis,
OF mighty populations;
While to the south a little town
OF little expectation
Began TO be and then became
despised poor relation
In 1900. Omaha.
To her evaporation.
Somehow other didn't grow
She lacked equivocation.
Ana It not for this same town
OF mighty aspiration
surely feel that Omaha
Would lose her reputation.
IN 1870 dear Omaha
May need some inspiration
BY which to make the census show
proper augmentation.
In such a case apply 10
For your resuscitation--
Wen promise then 20 take you IN
BY coercive annexation.
Here's fine invitation TO present day poeticai
genuses TO indte another stsnsa that will bring the
roundelay up to the 1920 census.
Don't crowd One at a time. therel
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