The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1916-06-08
A VOICE FROM
NORTHERN MEXICO
May 2e. 1916.

may ~Nf 1siNs
! Thermometer at 81 degrees with ]
degrees more still 10 climb ere the da
, is ended and the night breeze begin
to blow. Bandits not much in ev
! dence just now but merely laying low
and apt TO show up anywhere at an
! time. No meat in the market on at
count Of the exactions of the govern
ment as to the new issue Of tprob
ably worthless currency that we ar
about to receive and have forced dow
our throats under penalty Of imprison
ment if we don't take it smilingly an
with gusto. Intervention practically
fact, although Uncle Sam says tina
it's nothing of the kind, only punt
i've expedition.
All quiet on the Rio Grande Ton tn,
surface) but anxious hearts on botl
sides of the river, as we wait and won
der whether there will be war between
the two countries, there you
have the situation here. 1t is getting
on my nerves, and that is the truth
Half the trouble between the U. S
and Mexico is due to the complacent
ignorance and Indifference of most
Americans to their next-door neigh
bors, in combination with the influence
of a lot of pro-interventionists who
don't care two whoops about right,
truth or justice but are simply work
ing for their own good, and don't care
if the last Mexican is wiped off the
face Of the earth if they can make so
per cent on the deal. The other half
of the trouble is due to the Mexican
leaders who are making good thing
out of the revolution, and their graft
will be nil if peace is established and
order reigns through Mexico.
1t is the people who work trying
to make an honest living who suffer
the most. A few days ago an old
friend called on me. He is major in
forces; he used to be a.
here. He was so fat that
at first | didn't recognize him and
when | told him of it, he laughed and
replied, "Stolen beef is very fatten-
ing
1t is really very unpleasant here just
now with the sense of insecurity that
we feel hanging over us. Do you re-
member that when father was in Ne
vada in the late COS he once went on
4 fishing excursion for a few hours,
md returned all right with a string
# trout; but his companion failed to
;how up, and when they searched for
lin they found him dead and stripped
~ the Indians? Well, it is good
leal like that at present around here.
t is not the soldiers Of the govern
nent that have to be looked out for,
'ut the risk of small bands of maraud-
RS calling themselves Villistas, or
who are haunting the
ountry and committing outrages and
lurders.
Some days ago two Of us went fish '
lg and had very lazy mule to haul
S. When we got back about an hour
tier than usual found L., on the
erge of Mysteries from worry, as she
cared that the bandits had got my
so it goes every day of /,
tie. A bunch of five bandits was !
aptured at 2, forty miles from
ere, who had murdered and robbed !
Iexican gentleman. One of them was !
lken out by the graveyard and shot
lortly after his capture. ! don't !
now what has been done with the
hers. 1t is three miles to the river, :
nd ! am trying to get up courage to :
ak over there and try to catch some \
sh,-as meat is not to be had for :
We or money. The Rio Grande is
lily hundred yards away, but have
go to one of the tributaries to find y
III. v
Men" who are working here are on '
e varge of starvation with wage y
about SIG per day in Carranza = !,
oney, which comes to about 40 cents u
gold. u
This refers to skilled artisans.