The Washington herald., 1916-01-07

1 other American newspaper man. The
government could easily see that ".
were making a god deal Of money even
In the midst of all the revolutions, as
for long time / issued the only daily
paper in Mexico City. Well, they Ius,
wanted to make that money themselves
ana so they closed me UP. l had loaned
their official organ rolls Of paper TO start
with. too.
y" hen the American troops landed ar
vera Cruz / went there with the idea
or Issuing the paper in the wake Of tbs
army as it moved on the Capital We'll.
the troops did not go to the CAPITAL ana
the Mexicans put me under arrest-thst
is. they kept me under guard IN nv
house. With the departure Of the Aneri-
cans and English from Mexico City.
there were not enough Engiish-speaking
people left to support a paper printed
entirely In English, so I changed the
Herald and printed it half in spanish
I and half in English That's the wav IL
was issued when they shut US up a few
! days ago
eSasserated?'' asked Col Hanspson. Il
imagine it is due to the cutting of Of
the water supply"
Cursed with Camp Fever.
No. the water supply is all right That
Z a.
not half the truth has been told abour
the spread Of typhus It's frigbtfuI NOT
only In Mexico City, but all over the
country. Il is not really typhus, but the
/ olo-tashioned camp fever, spread by
vermin- We were practically free from II
until these filthy soldiers swarmed into
the city, and then it spread all over"
How is railroad travelling"
Pretty bad. However. / came through
carry your own linen and food. OF
course the trains are very crowded and
infrequent. The government claims TO
! nave the railroads all under it's control
We'll 1t has control OF the right Of way
and that's about all. II doesn't control
much more than a hundred feet on each
sac OF the tracks. Bandits roam along
them without much hindrsnce"
Then the country is far from being
/ pacified yet?"
Very far from it. All this border
warfare has acted as a sort Of curtain
/ which shuts off from the American peo-
! pie the real condition OF things in the
| lower part OF the country. For instance,
] the state Of OaNscs has not only not
I been pscifed or subdued. but is abso-
! lutely independent from the rest OF Mex
ico 1t is little principslity all by it,
self. 1t issues its own money and prints
! Its own stamps even. Just what is 60
ing on there nobody knows No. Zapats
does not control it. He is farther north.
OaHsca- too, was supposed to be the
most loyal of the states. II is the home
OF Mexican presidents. Disz WAS born
there"
The trouble with Mexico" interposed
Mr.. long lis that the big men have all
! been driven out Csrrsnzs has nobody
around him OF much experience or edu-
cation. He will have a hercuIean lob
In trying to strsighten thing out"
But let me tell you" asserted Col
Hsnpson, that with two years of peace
and good government Mexico would be
| very prosperous country"
Nobody denies that" answered Mr..
1 Campbell. There is q mistaken idea I'm
this country as TO the people OF Mexico
! mean the poems, the common people or
the labortng class, as they call them
here. The poems are hsrdworkinr sim
ple-minded. honest people. They want to
work. They are not the revolutionists.
They take to the bush when a revoIu-
| tion starts up. Believe me, they are
good citizens. II is the little educated.
middle class. like Villa, that makes the
| trouble
All FIVE gentlemen emphaticaIly agreed
| to this statement
The reported losses in battles have
been greatly exaggerated" said Mr..
Cumming. Il was in one six-day bat
tie in which there were engaged two
Sunboats, several batteries Of artillery
and more than 5000 soldiers on each side.
There was not a single man killed and
only thirty-fve wounded. mostly China
men and other noncombstAnts. The fs-
talities reported in the American press
ran into the thousands. Those Mexican
| revolutionists don't want to kill each
other or even try TO. An they want is
| TO loot"
How many American troops would
have been needed to have gone on from
Vera Cruz and taken Mexico Cityi''
Less than s5,0c0."