The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-07-08
WILSON POLICIES
HAVE MADE U. S.
JOKE IN mexico
Expelled Newspaper Man Tells
of Real Conditions.
Mexicans Really Believe Amerl-
cans Are towards.
PROSECUTIONS ENCOURAGED
Government Encourages PeO-
pie to Insult "GringOeso"
Pooling Washington Is Great
Sport for First Chief.
Mexicans Really Believe Amerl-
cans Are towards.
PROSECUTIONS ENCOURAGED
Government Encourages PeO-
pie to Insult "GringOeso"
BY DANIEL DILLON.
Correspondent Who Was Expelieu
from Mexico by General Carranza-)

correspondent Who Was Expelled
from Mexico by General Carranza-)
Tampa, Fla, July 9.-A member OF
Carranza's present cabinet address
ing a number of Mexicans in Ne"
York at the inception of the reVolu-
ton against Huerta, said;
'sIf we desire to make success OF
this revolution. we must feel tne
United States"
This has been Carranzas pol1cy 5
Words resonant with patriotism anu
high feeling nave been sent to the
United States and dark and ugly deeos
have supported them in Mexico.
The last Mexican note is but a fur
Their evidence of this policy 1t seeks
to make the people of the Unlteo
States believe CarranZa is willing 10 90
ANYTHING to retain the friendship OF
the United States ana deserve It's as
sistance, while. as a matter of fact, ne
is prosecuting to the extreme every
American and American enterprise IN
Mexico.
American women for the past sixty
davs have been lnsulted daily upon
the streets Of Mexico City; for the past
ten days they have not dared to leave
their homes.
Men Hounded, Too.
American men have feared to be otu
Of doors at night or to eat in pubnc
restaurants When they have had the
necessity to do so, drunken constitu-
tionalist army officers delighted IN
hurting curses at them. If they re
scented them they have either been shot
or hurried to Jail, where they IAN
guishe miserably while government
officials contemporary told the spe-
cia. agent of the American govern
mept Linn p. Rogers, that President
Wilson mas repeatedly ordered Amer1-
can citizens out of Mexico and If they
persisted in staying they must surfer
the consequences.
In Mexico, AmericaniSm is the by
word for contempt. Americans are the
plaything of ridicule and brothers in
abuse to the despised and hated Span
iards.
Every Jail in Mexico City in the
last three months has SWarmed with
American prisoners imprisoned simply
out of persecution and for no just
cause. 1 was held 1S days in jail, in
communicate, for having filed a ca
BILE message which the government
censor stopped, stating that II the
American troops advanced southwark
they would be fired upon by Mexican
troops and war in all likelihood would
result. Three days later actual facts
verified this advance notice. No
charges ever were preferred against
me, l had no trial nor was L allowed
to make any declarations. At the end
of nearly three weeks l was released
and told to leave the country. During
my Imprisonment Special Agent James
Linn Rodgers's request to visit me
was repeatedly refused.
Others Prosecuted.
Harry A. Dunn. superintendent of
the Mexican light and power plant at
Hecax has been in Jail for fifty-five
days and when 1 left the city was still
a prisoner. He is being held on the
most absurd charges, being accused of
having furnished dynamite to wreck
trains and giving munitions to the
ZapatiStaS. The facts are that the
Carranza government, being unable to
protect the property, bandit bands
have at various times sacked it an,
taken such supplies as they desired.
The government, unable to afford pro-
lection, is now trying to conceal its
inability under persecution by the
American administration. Special
Agent Rodgers had been unable to
get a polite hearing in the city.
Those two incidents are typical of
the manner in which Americans are
being treated throughout Mexico.
Trump ID up charges are filed against
them but the real indictment is that
they e Americans.
This present unbridled persecution
of Americans is the fruit of months of
l-bor on me part of the Carranza gov
eminent to inflame the public mind
against the Gringo. The government
press, and no other exists, has daily
manufactured grievances against
Americans and called upon Mexicans
to no longer suffer domination from
their eternal enemies, the pigs of
Americans. Every insulting term that
the prolific Spanish language possesses
has been used to describe the United
States and it's citizens; the newspa-
pers have Wed in coming new oppro-
brious terms that have ranged from
blood sucking jackals to money proud
towards.
German Officers Help.
Carranza's plans go awry for the
reason that army men seriously be-
lieve they can successfully invade the
United States and loot many CT the
border towns. This idea is being en-
couraged by German officers who are
daily joining Carranza. Twenty Ger
man officers. arrived recently from the
United States and have been given
high positions in the army. One has
been placed in command of all the
coast defenSes. His first action was
10 remove the guns from the Mexican
gunboats in Vera Cruz harbor and TO
plant them on the hills surrounding
the city.
General Obregon's staff officers
claim he his 100000 men under arms
md that San Antonio will be taken
within two weeks after hostilities are
declared Carranza at any time is
lpt to be shelved by the army clique
headed by Obregon, and in that event
war with the United States would
surely follow 1t is openly boosted
~ Carranza officials that Japan will
i've financial aid to Mexico and sup
sly her with all the arms necessary to
s. vht the United States
The incidents at Parral, Matamoras
md particularly CarriZal. have been
9xultingly heralded as glorious Next
can victories and used to drive home
The lesson that the Yankees cannot
and will not fight; that the Mexieans
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