The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-01-16
AMERICAN TELLS Of
MEXICAN EXPERIENCES
Many of Our Citizens Have Been MUIR.
dcred and Their Skaycrs Are
Unpublished.
FLAG FREQUENTLY INsUUTED
People Want Peace But Bandits to
Number of $50, 900 Make Country a
pcrdition-scrman Cruiser to the
Rescue.

New York. Jan. 15.-The following
Interview on conditions as they actual
ly are in Mexico. and especially in the
Tampico district controlled by General
Carranza, was given to your cores
pendent today by one of the largest
producers of oil in that district. His
name is not published because MS
statement Ia accepted that his life
would not he safe when he returned
to Mexico II his name were pub
lished:
Il was not surprised at the news or
the slaughter OF American citizens IN
Chihuahua. Who would be that has
lived in Mexico, who has seen our nag
stamped upon. spit upon and who has
abandoned hope OF justice and cour-
ageous action by the present admin
istration at Washington?
what have to say-and every
American on the west coast OF Mexico
will bear me out--is that what oc-
Cured in Chihuahua is likely any day
TO happen in the Tampico district. I
deal i'm facts. mind. not In guess
work or speculation
Murderer Unpublished
In the Panuco district of Tampico.
which Is controlled by Carranza. two
Americans have been shot to death in
the past few months by the patriots.
In the case OF Frank King IL is COM
mon knowledge who the leader Of
the nlurderers Is. He goes unpublished.
In fact 1t Ia generally understood that
the whole year is An open season for
shooting gringoes. In the Eve years
that have been at Tampico. eighteen
Americans and Ave English subjects
have been murdered Aside from a
few weeks in jail no punishment
whatever was meted out to the muir
derers. and fan-h have suffered even
that inconvenience.
The lower and much more yaiu
able oil field il held Al certain points
alcne the gulf by Carranzistas The
sntrrtor, or producing field. Is, ar was
three weeks ago, held by Villistas
ander General Peiias with about l.
epn men, who made the Pearsons
mountain camp. Fetrero de tiano and
the neighboring Indian villages his
headquarters. peiias Is a good"
natured thief. ana seems to- dislike the
splitting of blood. He has a merry
Time watching far and inteTcepting
the paYrolls Of the Pearson and PENN
MAJ t4A GoHtpa ni++s. He and Sam
weaver. of the ren-Mex Company,
play a constant game ~ hide and
seek Sans play is 10 get tho pay
roll oi usually about $4,000 pesos 10
camp and distributed among the
white and Mexican employees before
Nslias' nCu can commAndeef it sam
a4is Had thc best ct it uutiI - short
fifne age, when. shortly after the
haa been suuggled into camp,
peilas forces rushed him. Sam threw
The lauAeS hastily into tine safe and
locked Il Up.
Mexican Einaneierins.
open that safe ordered the pa
trio.
Not on your Hfe' said sam.
'Carraj e bring III the dynamite"
"'oh til oper n sa3d sam. and
80 PeliaS won thar trick,
'But suppose some sringo- hater
takes Pelas' place.
Then there is another very real
terror the santa Maria indians, the
only real savAEes / have met IN That
bari OF Mextcu They take orders from
no one They torture their prisoners,
white or MeXcian When the CarranHa
officials sent theIa an order recently
tss release certain prisoners they pin
ned the written order upon the breast
II the luckless messenger and drove
-daKger through il AMI his heart
Whole villages and all the country
along the Chicaros River are terror
Lad -hY-thema -
People Want Peace,
The adm suiStrtti0u closes ewes ana
ears IL the truth about Mexicr, ara
Keeps on playing politics. ~ least 40
pei cent OK she Mexican people are
aging TOR peace and viii not take up
arms under any circumstances, even
in ease of intervention ~ the hlf"e
states. Tho l560oo fighters, pa
tr!ots. who are making anarchy "a
Mexico. are cuuNictS. thieves, matt
starved poems. blood thirsty indians.
MANY thousands who were forced 10
Join the armies after time tuunu
that the life Is so agreeable they
20 rot care 10 SO back to honest
work.
..As for NJ Americans who do not
nutti f., the new-fHngled doctrine that
no American has Il right to earn a
dollar outside of the United states,
who stili believe that an American has
a right to push business wherever ne
car. We have looked for massacre,
and. stiil expect it.
II was at the Hotel southern,
which was the main point OF attack by
a mob. After two attempts TO peat
down the doors the increasing mop
became more systematic our look
outs said they filled two squares Iney
howled and cursed and swore death TO
the gringoes sprinkling Of police
and soldiers In the mob showed Us
that the military government sympa-
thized with the attack. We were
about 100 strong with perhaps thirty
I've shotguns and fifty revolvers and
We had Atty women and children to
protect. These we placed In kind OF
mexxanine floor. The men who did
not have guns took up clubs and
placed themselves at stair heads,
ready to beat down attackers The
mob assaulted the doors with tim
bers. They shouted to us - haul down
our dirty rag--the flag of the United
States--and we told them In Spanish
to go to hell
Well all at once the uproar ceased
and the mob swept onward Captain
Kohler. of the German cruiser Ores
den, had served notice that Ii single
American was killed he would land
his marines and sweep the stree,s,
That settled 1t. Officers from the
Dresden escorted our women folk
aboard the cruiser and arranged with
u to signal them IL another attask
came.
1--WE know in Mexico that Carranza
cannot succeed. The financial problem
il too much for him. Already over So
n.n on0 (00 in paper money has been