Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-03-10

on the merchants bankers, business
ana professional men in general I'm
am effort to alleviate the poverty
stricken condition OF the poor. ,he
torcigncrs engaged in business hero,
through the minister OF France ped
toned the first chief at Vera cruz to
be exempted from los provisions. Mn
Carranza granted their request 1u1
since then these foreign merchants
have been very favorahly disposed to
our cause.
Many of the business men, bank
ers and merchants gladly paid the
taN imposed and others stated their
NilllnSuess To comply with IL NJ given
additional time. They are now daily
endeaNoring 10 meet its requirements.
"lt is utterly ulse that ! have pre-
vented food at any time from enter
ing Mexico ClN or az any time took
supplies from the city to- furnish them
to the army
owing to the dcrrcdauons of the
hapatis0s. the water supply has
been short, but every effort has been
made TO remedy this condition. Flour
coal aud other commodities that must
necessarily he imported at an times
have not been abundant but VcEet.
.ables aud small trucking that Mrxtro
city at an times obtains from IA,
Indians. who cultivate small patchc,
in the suburbs of tho city. have beer
las plentiful as the times Justify
Regarding Catholic Priests.
Having heard that the American
newspapers were reporting that Cath
Ollie priests had been tbs subjects ul
mistrcutmcnt and that They were suf
fering abuses iu their prison I au.
thorized the correspondent of the Ia
prenza and the local secretary of TN,
Associated Press 10 interview IA,
clcrgymeu themselves and discover
of their own accord how they wCr,
being treated The fullowiug ls an
extract from the report made boy tht
correspondents and published i'm tn,
La Prenza
AFTER many of the priests had in
formed me that they had not beer
maltreatcd they requested tnnor
Juan Climaco Ramirez To voice tn,
sentiments of the entire group The
venerable probate spoke as follows
Have Bccu Wen Treated
We have been we'll treated boy
all the chiefs and officers who
believe. belong to the staff of Gen
eral Castro We have not been mo
Tested in the least and we know tha
this is due 10 orders from Genera
Obregon TO whom We are greatly
Obliged for the consideration show
us. We receive our food from oul
homes. We are allowed to receiN,
those who wish to cali ON as and W.
have the freedom of the building an,
walk through an the corridors ant
halls. (They are lodged In what WIZ
/ formerly the building occupied by
the department of war and marine "a
/ the national palaceD We have dali,
communication with Father Pareda'
! who Is working 10 solve the situation.
says News l. Colored.
"m connection with this informa
! tion that has been received i'm tn,
! United states / would call your at
/ tention to the fact that certain
sources of Information greatly re-
| lied upon by the United states are
Ipuisoned against the congtltutionalls
( cause. Every occasion is taken by
those worthy senors to put us u
/ the worst hrht possible.
"U Is natural that those Interest,"
that prospercd under the old regime
while the Mexican people themselve
were left in q pitiful state. will stool
to amy means no matter how low. e
discrcdit the eonstitutiunalist move
mcnt which they realize sounds thu
death kncl of special privilege ant
ombodies general revolutionary
movement for the benefit of the Mex
icnn masses
The Associated Press has been un.
able TO communicate with It's cores.
poudent in Mexico city for several
DAYS and has received no news direct
" from there. No report concerning
the treatment Of the imprisoned
priests has been received from Mex
leo city.