The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-10-12
IN MINUTE IN DAY WHEN
SOME ONE is NOT DYING
OF STARVATION.
NOTHING LIKE IT IN HISTORY

sheet of Red He'll Covers Mex
ion a Land of Unsurpassed Pro-
auctiyeness. Rapine and Murder
Now Rage Unchecked.
rbare is a sheet of red hell cover
~ uexico from the Rio Grande on
north to Central America on the
18th and from the Gulf of Mexico on
~ cast to the Pacific ocean on the
..+ writes a correspondent of the
washington Post.
Within this area there is not min
,.o of the day when some one is not
Zinc of starvation in a land un-
s,,rnossed productiveness, which, up
- few years ago, was land of
nIontv. of peace and contentment.
There is not a day in the year nor
an hour in the day when some one
:, NOT murdered and robbed in Mex
;oo Nor does a week pass that does
not record the pillage and burning
oe towns, the dynamiting Of passen-
cor trains and the consequent sacri-
eco of hundreds of human lives.
\ Land of Frightfulness.
# is a land where no mans life is
cafe and where property is held by
snfferance of bandit chiefs; a land
Of terror and frightfulness impossi-
HE Of realization by the people of the
United States. 1t is land without
tho law of God or man, chaos of
anarchy where civilization is being
strapgled and a people thrust back
into barbarism.
These conditions are caused by less
than one per cent of the people of
Wpyico: the ''revolutionists, as they
arp known in the United States when
their activities are confined to MeXi-
ro as bandits when their exuber-
snce carries them over the border in
IN Texas. They call themselves arm
citizens" and their pillaging hordes
hear the imposing title of 'liberating
armies"
These liberating armies are all
composed of groups of greater or less
numbers and importance under the
command of their chiefs whose allie
glance to their superiOrs is based
solely on what there is in it for them.
The Villaista of today may be the
Carranzista of tomorrow and hop as
frequently as the prospect OF loot
picks up on either side.
There is no honor or loyalty, patr1-
otism or comradeships among any OF
the armed citizens. They are simply
bordes of bandits loosely banded to-
gether for greater effectiveness,
whose sole object is to prey on the
people.
They are patriots for what there is
in it for them, whether it be the shoes
of a fallen comrade or the presidency
of Mexico; and if they found it to be
to their own personal interest they
would sell out their leader as quickly
as they would steal a horse.
Two Typical patriots"
Genevevo de la o, right-hand man
of Zapata, who was commander IN
chief of the Villa-Zapata forces in the
defense of Mexico City when Pablo
Gonzales attacked it the first time
first time for Pablo Gonzales, that
isl, is understood to have demanded
and received 100000 from the Aapa-
tista treasurer before he would go
out and fight.
This individual is a fair type of the
Zapatista general; understood spl-
der-legged, potbellied and degener-
ate, yillainousmugge and evileyed'
ignorant and vicious and cruel, he
never attained even to the ciy1llza-
tion of wearing shoes until he stole a
pair after becoming general.
The only patriot in all Mexico
equal to Genevevo de la o in cruelty
and bl0odthirst is Gen. Fierro, the
right-hand man of Villa. He is known