The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-19
ONCE
ARE NOW POOR REFUGEES
Even the Poems, Who Earned Good Wages in the Mines,
Are Starving in United States
Border Towns.

V''O "ef utiNth "a vi thlt ou ttlt
eve Of his marriage to a beautiful girl
OF Dutch parentage. He has never
heard from his isncee. and she is said
to have died from shock sustained by
the horrible sights she witnessed during
an orgy Of bandits in the town where
she lived.
After the American Ambassador.
Henry Lane Wilson. sailed from Vera
Cruz for Washington to render to the
Wilson Administration a personal report
on conditions In Mexico. based upon six
teen years experiences with Latin Amer
lean peoples. there were grave fears
among the Madero family and the wire
pullers In their empioy-this was before
villa. Zapata and Carranza had secured
power in Mexico-that the official repre-
sentative OF the American Government
would impress the Washington officials.
II was deemed necessary publicly to
smirch Ambassador Wilson before he
got to Washington. az a part of the plan
to prevent the recognition of Huerta as
provisional President by the United
States. No Mexican or American agent
relished the job. and the task was as
signed TO a citizen of the world"
on July 81, 1913. there was put on the
cables at Havana this statement from
Jose Santos Chocano:
1T Is natural hat Ambassador Will
son is interested in justifying his ac-
completes. and II Is possible that he ad-
vised Huerta to organize an anti-Amer-
car demonstration In Mexico for the
purpose OF causing an impression on the
State Department In Washington. BY
these declarations l serve my race and
the real interests of the United States.
which. fortunately. have as President
a man very different from Ambassador
Wilson"
The desired result followed. President
Wilson did not heed the counsels OF Am
bassador Wilson. Twenty upright Amer
leans in Mexico city at the time of the
snti-American demonstrations exon
Grated the American Ambassador OF the
accusation made by the Peruvian ad-
v%enturer. who then submerged until his
recent temperance as the author of the
villa pamphlet.
Knows the Nexics ms.
San Antonio understands and knows
the MeNicans. both the poems IL hires
and the dons IL entertains socially. This
smiling Texas city. will it's threescore
small green parks, smart hotels and
attractive residences. has something far
more precious than u present IL has a
past. In the heart OF the town Is one OF
those old. rambling missions-the Alamo.
kIdN atlu roltlbff"W llt Spanish
Franciscan friars built all over the
Southwest in the eighteenth century.
There are others equally romantic in the
cotton fields out Of town. Their clum-
bling cloisters and towers form a relief
from the rows of modern business blocks.
with their metal and wooden sun shades
draping the sidewalks OF Houston and
Commerce streets.
MeNicans feel We are welcome in
San Antonio" said Jose Maria Lujan. an
ex-Secrtary ~ state OF Mexico. also a
peace man, but not a lena Senior
Lujan is a splendid type of the q educated
Mexican OF the upper classes, Six feet
tall. clean shaver, save for a Prayish
mustache. with the manners OF n born
gentleman and clad in a suit OF spick and
span poneee. he ooked every inch a don
on the wide veranda OF the 81. Anthony
Hotel. He continued:
Il am sure that the great American
people would never have wished 10 de-
stroy our country 7 have not met a
person in San Antonio who agrees with
tho Mexican policy OF the Washington
Administration"
"~Destroyed?" ! asked.
"Ycs. Mexico is about destroyed" he
replied. 81 have lost heart over the
tragedies that come to my attention
every day. EVIL mcn now have the di-
rect!on OF Mexican affairs. and I fear II
is going TO be ever worse. Many of my
friends have lost everything only es-
capped with their lives"
Failure on the part Of the American
Government to secure pledges from Car
rama and villa to respect property
rights in the sections of Mexico which
they had not already squeezed dry OF
its wealth gave Carranza and villa an
extended area OF operation. In addI-
ton Carranza and Villa now insist
that their actions OF c~oniisoetion prior
20 the departure OF Carbajal have been
sanctioned and sanctlfed by the Wilson
Administration,
Little Chance In Courts.
A few Mexican property owners tam
cied they would find relief for their
misfortunes In the American courts
AMI employed American lawyers along
the border TO proceed legally for the
recovering of their stolen propety. They
left the instituting OF criminal proceed
ings TO tho sense OF Justice which they
believed to exist In the United States,
In December, 1914. a suit was brought
in the State court OF Texas at FL Paso
by La Compan MIA Commercial de Puebla
against a railroad carrier and the
Finnegan-Brown Company to obtain
possession Of $3.50 hides which the
plaintiff alleged had been stolen by
certain parties whose names are I'M
known, but who are reported TO act
by authority of the V~illa-ZaIata faction
In Mexico" The hides had been brought
into the United States In bond.
Upon suggestion OF tho attorney rep
resenting the railroad. who did not
fancy the idea Of having his client fig
ure in n transaction at all questionable.
the lawyer for the plaintiff wen to
Austin. Tex. and brought a new equity
action in the Federal District Court.
This resulted In the issuance OF an
Injunction tying up the hides. the idea
Of the court being 20 let the plaintiff
identify such hides as he could, the
order running that in the event he sue
ceeded he could apply for a continuance
OF the injunction. Upon examination
the hides were found to have no brands
upon them and the case was dismissed.
Fail to Get Goods Back.
Generally speaking, Mexlcans on
dcavoring to capture their own prop
erty at the American border have been
~foredoomed to failure, They never could
tell just when thelr property was sched-
uled for movement. controlling the only
railroad operating out Of chihuahua,