The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-07-22


by Mexicans on the slightest provoca-
ton.
An Americans Plea
Following is the letter:
- -, Mexico.
"Mr. r. P. Sewers
Dear Friend and Pal: You are by
this time thinking 1 am dead or neg
lectful, SO I write to let you know I
am neither. Ever since I went to Ell
Paso for shoes which made my feet
feel happy, I have been under the
weather. On the twentieth of
last month all the Americans here left
camp expecting the United States to go
to war with Mexico. Americans are
still on the other side and is
still under control of Mexicans, works
and all. I was advised by a very
dear friend on the twenty-second that
that day was the last 1 could get away
and as I was in bed he sent me an
automobile to get out, which I did.
As soon as recovered from an opera
ton and illness I came back to my
interests here, July L.
You undoubtedly would like to
know all about the conditions here but
1t hurts me to think about it and L
find it hard to write about them. If
was travelling man and came here
TO spend q few days 1 would swear
no one could live here and would call
the conditions intolera ole.
L
for change for the better, day In
and day out, with no help from any
where you may imagine the condition
and after you do imagine the condi-
ton just multiply it by about fifty
and you will get somewhere near the
| is considered and undoubtedly is. the
best place in the whole republic What
other places must be and look like T
| do not care to imagine
I
What is the opinion in Topeka
about the war with Mexico. Do Won
think it is all over or is it lust ABRIDGED
until the opportune time for interven-
tlon.- do not know what YOU peo-
pie in Kansas think about Wilson pol
1tics, but here, there are no words
with which to condemn such actions
and undertakings. Wilson is so gov
erning himself because he thinks there
are certain organizations in Mexico
losing money, and he thinks that does
not justify war. In reality there are
throughout the republic and the losses
of life.
| You remember how good an Amer
lean I have been since 1 drew a
breath of freedom after living under
crowned heads for nineteen years, but
today I believe the politics of Austro-
Germany is better than those of the
United States, even IL 1t is running the
countries-the politics of the United
ed and disrespectful. Do you not think
Mexicans must lose respect for Amer
leans when they issue orders that all
English signs on windows, houses OF
other places must be taken down OF
the owner will be fined from 200 te
| 1000 pesos2
! 1.-The money situation is another tfins
hard to deal with. There is a standing
order in - or anywhere else in the
republic that we must accept modern
lCarranze money at the rate of 20 cents
in silver or 10 cents in gold and this
same money is selling in FL Paso for
from to cents on the peso. mar
comes into a store and gets his infor-
nation how to sell a certain article
for silver and if the article sells fol
$3.50 he may jew you down to SO il
pesos and then he gives you is pesos
of the paper money, which at the cost
| is not worth more than so cents OIL
eigner does not accept this paper
money he win be sent out of Mexico
and If a Mexican refuses it they throw
him in Jail and deal with him as they
see fit. If you have property, no mat.
ter what kind of a contract you have
made with the tenant, you must &C
cept this paper money for rentals.
The above statements are correct
Nevertheless If you speak with news
paper man 1 wish you would be care
ful that the town 1 am in and MI
name be withheld, as you know
must stay here and cannot speak tn,
truth about this country. I may de
lay this letter for quite a while as
| would not dare mail it in the loca
postoffice.' Signed.