Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-07-07
IOWA MAN RESIDING IN MEXICO
SEVENTEEN YEARS TELLS OF
CONDITIONS.
SAYS cARRANzA CAN
NOT PAcIFY COUNTRY
Larae Part Of Mexican Citizens Said to
Favor Intervention For Financial
Reasons, Despite Dislike For AmerI-
cans-Peope Starving and Economic
corditions DepIorabIe.

Cedar Rapids, July 7.-"American
intervention is the only way to restore
order in Mexico and it will have to
come sooner or later" said Mr.. 7. D.
Rock who has just arrived in Cedar
Rapids after residing seventeen years
in Mexico.
"Carranza will never restore order
in Mexico" said Mr.. Rock. He is d
pon4pous old fusser VINO likes to har-
apgte the crowds and have his picture
taken to be printed in the papers and
Observation-Disclosures. But of power and in
fiGence he has little. or none.
=. Huerta Much Better.
tsHuerta was a thousand times bet
ter and under his rule Mexico was on
the high road to stability Of govern
ment and a better condition Of the
people. Why the United States ever
interfered with HuertaI is something
that no American living in Mexico can
understand. Huerta was an Infinite
~ better ruler than Carranza-
"Under Diaz schools were estab-
iished and the children were obliged
to go to school. These schools were
maintained under Huerta, but since
Carranza has been in power educa-
ton has been neglected and all the
good work formerly done has been
lost. -
Mexicans Want Il.
Not onl ythe Americans in Mexico
but thousands of the Mexicans them
selves, are praying Tor american in
PREVENTION. Business in Frustrated and
the people of Mexico are starving. II
you walk along the streets of any
Mexican city eating a banana and
throw down the peel or if you eat a
mango and throw away the seed there
will be a scramble from the starving
people to pick up the peeling or the
seed from the street. I paid s. in Am
erican gold two weeks ago for sack
Of corn.
For seventeen years have been a
civil engineer In Mexico and have
been in contact with all classes Of peo-
pie 7 am telling you the exact truth
when I say that the better people of
Mexico know that American aid in
restoring ordertis necessary, in fact it
Is inevitable.
The Outrage at Tampioo.
"Of course there is a strong senti-
ment against the 'gringoes' and this
came strongly in evidence two weeks
ago in Tampico when the dispatch
boat from the American gunboat
Marietta was fred upon by Carranza
troops. It looked like trouble after
that. The gunboat Machias, IN which
your Louis Roth. Jr., Is lieutenant,
and the gunboat Marietta, cleared
their decks for action and announced
that any further nolestation Of their
dispatch boats would mean the shell
ing Of Tampico. After that there was
no further attack on the marines but
every American was ordered out Of
Mexico.
carranza Officials Robbers.
And every American leaving Mex
leo is held up and robbed by the Car
rama officials. Everyone was made
to hold his hands above lis head while
they went thru his pockets. If he had
any Mexican money they stole it. If
he had any Mexican arms they took
them. Mexican officials of the Car
rama regime are band of thieves and
cut Threats. OF course Mexican paper
money rs lOl "oi III ~ tehhVo
two hundred Mexican paper dollars to
purchase an American gold dollar.
Under Diaz the ratio was two to one
Now the ratio to 200 to one.
Intervention Means Fight.
Intervention in Mexico would be
long task but Of course It could be
accomplished. There would probably
be one or two stiff battles and then
the Mexican army would break up into
small bands of bushwhackers and ban
dts. But I think they would not long
be able to get ammunition. The ar
senal at Mexico City is able to turn
out only 10000 rounds OF ammunition
per day and this would not be any
thing in case Of war. Many If their
arms are foreign made. About half Of