Evening star., 1915-11-20
TIE MEXICAN MIDDLE
1.-THE Plan of San Diego.
By Frederic ]. Haskin.


BROWNSVILLE, Tex. November Is
Not long ago Mexican was arrested
In southern Texas on a charge of sedi-
tion, and a remarkable manuscript was
found on his person. 1t was a complete
and detailed plan for the conquest of
the United States.
Along the border the plan of San
Diego. as 1t was called, was treated
as the biggest joke of the year. the
papers gave it only a few inches of
space, and 1t was Immediately forgot
ten.
plot, 5000 United States troops are
guarding American lives and homes
along the Mexican border. The Texas
rangers. band of picked fighting men,
are beating the brush for Mexicans as
hunters beat thickets for deer. Every
civilian goes armed. A dozen ranch
men and about forty soldiers have been
killed. The dreamers who framed the
plan of San Diego have paid with their
blood, too. The number of Mexicans
that lie unburied In the brush about
Brownsville Is variously estimated at
from 300 to 500.
so the conquest Of America by a
band of socialistic vissionaries,' ac-
KIN owledg-
Conquest of America ing allie
Is Begun in Earnest. e'a"ee vepn. 70 mo
ment, has begun in earnest While 1t
has never gotten beyond the confines of
three counties. 1t has been generously
baptized in blood and trouble.
The plan of San Diego is said to have
had Its birth in the brain OF one An
cieto Pisano. who now enjoys the dis
tinction of being valued at $1,000,
dead or alive" by the state of Texas.
He is living in strict retirement-if
he is living at all.
Whether the man who drew the plan
of San Diego Is an idealist. dreamer
and patriot, his mind unbalanced by
fancied wrongs, or merely clever ras-
cal using fine language to hoodwink
his ignorant countrymen. Is impossible
to say-and the author himself is not
accessible to interview.
1t Is said that Pisano was an en-
thusiastic reader of the infiammatory
a Mexican organization of pseudo-so-
cialistic nature, dealing largely with the
wrongs which that nation has suffered
at the hands of the Anglo-Saxon.
but he formed societies among the
Texas Mexicans, which held regular
meetings. In this way the propaganda
was spread until his supporters num-
bered thousands, with a secret 'organi-
zation in every Mexican hamlet in
southwest Texas. The seed thus sown,
Pisano turned to action by drafting the
plan of San Diego.
The plan provides for the rising of
the Mexicans in Texas, New Mexico,
Colora d O..
Plan Provides Rising Arizona and
of Mexicans in Texas. an q ~ '1a nne
and one as ALL" Every male American
over sixteen years of age is to be slain
without mercy, the provision on this
point being especially stringent. deny
ing to any captain of band or detach-
ment the right Of sparing any "gringo."
Only Americans are to be killed, how
ever. The Japanese are to be spared
and received into the new republic
which the San Diegans will found. So
are the negroes. The Indians of Ari-
zona and New Mexico are to join the
rising. and upon its success they will
be given lands and freed from "slav-
cry"
When the hated Yankee was put down
and the new republic organized the
next step was to have been annexation
to Mexico. The plan sets worth that
this is to be done, regardless of what
party or government may be in power
in the Mexican republic. and that Mexi-
CO is to receive the accession of terri
tory as free gift, being under no OBJ
legation therefor. This clause may
have been intended to indicate that Old
Mexico was not concerned in the rising,
and at it's successful termination should
not share tho credit of the feat
The ambitious and empire-pla nning
mind of Pisano did not rest content
with this program. Once he had set up
his republic and won back to the Mexi-
can race the land it had lost in lS4S, he
would consider the wrongs of his negro
allies $50 far as is known, not a sin
gle negro ever Joined the movement or
was in any way connected with the
marauding bands who attempted to
realize the wild project) However.
Pfsano generously planned to conquer
six more American states for the
negroes and help them to set up a re-
public of their own.
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The plan of San Diego is in, many
ways a remarkable document, quite
aside from
Plan Work of a Man the hold it
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