The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-26

Wilson Administration on the ciril
Udr
ny RAYMOND q. CARROLL.
Passing through the narrow. unpaved
streets of Juarez. Mexico. in the day
TIM no n would suspect what they
are at night. Under the hot sun their
~physiognomy is dull and %fatiguingly
vapid; their unpleasant odors. clouds
Of dust and dirty peon soldiers suggest
almost any town in northern Mexico.
But after dark the " of little
streets clustering around the Gale de
Concrete ~disgorge their dregs of hui
mainly into hat main corridor of pale
light, and then Juarez lives.
Across the Rio Grande. in the Ameri-
AN city Of FL Paso, they have nick
named the Gale de Concrete MUIR
derers Row." not because OF the crimes
committed in the back rooms of its
saloons and gambling dives. but for the
criminals harbored there after shutdown.
The Southwest is particular when it
comes to murderers at large, having
long since driven the."old killers of the
red hills of New Mexico n Arizona
either into responsibility or over the
Great Divide.
Chained to Juarez by two foo bridges
n a wheezy electric car line, FL Paso
feels responsibilities Dol its murky
%neighbor. Unwholesome chiils 'ay their
damp mantle on your shoulder as you
enter this plague spot of North Amer
ica," for in the folds of such joints
as the Big Kid saloon, the Silver King
bar and the Black Cat cafe and over
the gaming tables of the Diamond Elec-
trio Keno and the Juarez Turf Ex-
change the kings Of Mexican savagery
and the scum of American civilization
strike palms in an orgy of outlawry.
Nowhere else have women sunk SO low
and vice become SO sordid
Inferno of InfRmy.
They had called Juarez the American
Monte Carlo in the lobby of the Hotel
Sheldon at FL Paso some broken down
gamblers said it. Base Islander. Monte
Carlo Is a paradise OF white marble in
a setting Of rock against a background
of blue. the blue of the sky and the
blue of the Mediterranean. Juarez is
an inferno of infamy in a setting Of
cactus against a background of red
the red of the dying sun of old Mexico
and the red of a national anarchy.
Monte Carlo Is a pleasan. memory :
Juarez a horrible nightmare, a CHASTITY
caricature of pleasure.
One can well ask how has Juarez
escaped the pen of exposure. It reeks
with a ~viciousness worse than the Fish
Market of Cairo, Egypt. Such hideous
faces one cannot find anywhere else
In the world-twisted. Scared and
blasted by vice. Drug iends with
blanched cheeks and wide, staring eyes (:
criminals OF Mexican mothers and
American fathers SIM along the wall
Of the Turf Exchange and then drop
suddenly into seats at the roulette
tables.
Juarez Is an important psychological
study, for in its frightful night life
we find the spirit of the Mexico Of
villa and the other bandits Hipolito
Villa. brother of Pancho, is the czar
OF Juarez. Every foul resort liz n con-
cession sold from his bargain counter.
Here, crowding our very border. under
the eyes OF Ell Paso. is the whole story
Of what human liberty means to villa
II means horror upon horror vice com
bbi'iN da' Nplildiilitpu dfpdStu . HINT
der. robbery and arson made honorable
professions such criminals as may be
walking the streets under halos Of
bravado it means the topping into the
gutter OF everything sacred to decent
and honorable Americans.
shadow of villa.
Contrast thiss start OF villa, the states
man. with the launching OF the American
republic. Wherein Is there lodged in
those responsible for conditions at
Juarez the came motives that guided
the trainers OF the American Constitu-
ton? 1t Is a Islander on Washington,
jefferson and the other serious minded
Trainer OF American. Government to put
them In a class with villa. Carranza and
Zapata. Emerson says that every in
stitution is but the heightened shadow
of its founder Juarez is the heightened
shadow Of villa. the municipal embodi-
ment of the Mexican savage.
Go to Juarez. Mr.. Congressman, and
see what the Submerged so per cent Of
Mexico" have done with their liberty.
Or come along with the writer and his
two husky friends on a hot summer
night and learn what a Mexican bandit
can accomplish in the way OF local gov
at the very threshold of his
opportunity,
We rode over to Juarez on the street
car Every seat vas taken. ! noticed
walters from the Paso del Norte Hotel,
where ] stopped. their pockets jinpling
with tips. There were American boys,
not OF age. well dressed and filed with
the ardor of adventure,
Three cattlemen, their outdoor profess
sion betrayed by their bronzed and
leathery countenances. were hilariously
announcing their intention Of beating
Roy Offutt's faro game. running in the
Jarez Turf Exchange,
Opposite the Garita Reforma. at the
Mexican end of the bridge, our motor
man threw on the brakes, and "A peon
customs officer with two soldiers care
out OF the shadows into the light OF the
electric car and walked slowly along
the running board. He gazed suspi-
ciously udor the seats, and with a
"Buenas dias. s%enor." for the conductor
waved our release from his inspection.
Evil Audience Seen.
The fronts OF the Juarez Turf Ex-
change, at 23 Gale de Concrete, and
the Diamond Electric Keno, a few doors
al the same street, were blazing bea-
cons, Both were crowded by
a mixed gathering; dark haired Mexi-
cans OF evil c-ountenances. white faced
American girls In garish dress and every
sort of American from the cowboy with
the wide brimmod hat to the cmaciated
nroduct of the New York East Side with