The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1915-04-08

passively by and allowed this unnec.
essay loss of life and property Famine
threatens. The ranch owners no long
err dare 70 carry in their g,anaries
corn sufficient to feed their workmen
through the year, as they formerly did.
Planting is greatly restricted, and even
where surplus is produced, II is not
available for lack of transportation.
The fruit crop, amounting to thous-
ands of dollars, has rotted on the
trees. SO II goes. At the Aguascal-
ientes smelter, where some 5000 caval-
ry had been stationed for a time,
saw men, who earned pesos per day
at that plant, picking grains of corn
from the stable refuse in order 10
maintain life
Just at present Mexico City is eX-
periencing what the rest of the coun-
try has been suffering for 4 years
without attracting much attention.
The diplomatic corps are able to make
themselves heard at Washington, and
that city seems greatly stirred in con-
sequence.
agree with villa that it will do
good for Mexico City to feel the brunt
of war conditions. and realize as never
before what is happening to the coun-
try. 1t is a popular belief all over
Mexico that they can look for no relief
from our government, and that only
the outbreak # the European war has
prevented the other governments in
tervening TO stop the intolerable con-
ditions preva ling with the consequent
losses to life and property of their
nations fail to discover the slight
est belief in any altristic purpose of
our government The prevailing be-
life or feeling is rather one of con-
tempt. / forsee further dscredit to
Americans and humiliation for our
government after the close of the
European war, Down here we, who
have lived our lives in Mexico, believe
that firm positive and decided stand
by our government adopted at the be-
ginning. would not only have avoided
war but would have stopped the rev.
olutions, and would have been the
orleans, and their properties saved
Now the damage Is done. No use COM
ing down here to resuscitate a corpse
The poems have been taught to fight
hn / of than
The country Is fun of arms. Any
armed intervention now would meet
with resistance and is not advisable.
1t would most certainly jeopardize the
lives of all Americans in Mexico to far
greater extent than did the interven-
ton at Vera Cruz see no remedy
but for it to burn itself out until the
resources of the country are com
pletely exhausted. They can keep this
up Indefinitely, however. The finan-
cial problem Is q most difficult one, and
no doubt it will eventually become ne
cessary to repudiate this fiat money.
No one knows how much is in existen-
ce,and the printing presses are still
running.
, Sorry | cant write more encourage
, ingly. but we are facing bitter facts
' and reaping results of bungling which
5 began with the previous administration
| and has continued ever since, only
2 worse.
: Regarding our own affairs, II is GER
tainly not advisable to undertake any
, new construction at present, and
, would advise diverting the capital in
hand to Alaska or British Columbia,
, until Mexico finds herself. She can
, expect no help from outside. We
will have to take our losses along with
thousands of others and make new
, start somewhere else. The papers to-
day report the death Of j. b. McManus
, Of Mexico City-shot by soldiers. He
owned and operated a large dairy in
the suburbs of Mexico City. This
matter will attract a lot of attention,
although it is only one case of hun
dreds.
| learn today of the execution of
, Joaquin Cuesta of Guadalajara. How
ever, we are told that they have the
! right to fight and kin so long as they
; please; but this killing of our best
and most innocent people-the we'll
known friends and useful members of
society, gets on ones nerves and it's
hard to fathom the motives Of those
who tolerate it,
feet of drift Another case where