El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-11-24
PENNSYLVANIA PAPER PRINTS
CHAMPION LIBEL ON Fl PASO
Other Distorted Stories of FL Paso and Its Greed Have
Been Printed, But None Touched the Vaporings of
This Article, Which Has Hardly Grain of
Truth From Beginning to End.

~ EHDOM has an article about FL
Paso been published with less
- truth IN it than one featured on
the first page Of the Greensburg. Pa.
Daily Tribune of November Is over the
name Of r. ". Herbert.
Here It is, FL Pasoans and soldiers
here is the sort OF stuff some men are
feeding the people hack home; here is
one reason why the people Of the coun-
try do not understand the border sit
nation: here is one reason fathers and
mothers poster the war department
and army commanders TO send their
boys home: here is = man who be-
srnirehes himself to make copy" a
type that real newspaper men would
be ashamed TO aconsort with or even
10 know:
RumOrs Born Of Greed.
The sensational rumors, always
afloat down there. are born of greed
in which Americans and Mexicans share
as equally as bandits and outlaws
share anything. FL Paso is an incu-
bator for false information Most of
it is misleading and intended to keep
q vast army of soldiers in close touch
and within money spending range OF
the mammonites and money grabbers
who are rapidly becoming bloated and
rich on the petty price paid for the
services Of the soldiers
The people of Fl Paso and its en-
Tirons would not now agree with Sher-
man in his terse description Of war
Whether they are having peace or
war down there they regard the con-
ditions as being almost heavenly The
situation there now is better than they
had ever hoped for It is better for
them than they deserve and at every
sign of a command Of soldiers being
ordered to their home stations the FL
Paso newspapers flare up with reports
OF imaginary Outrages on the Mexican
side which are positively thrilling, and
just as positively untrue.
Personal investigation discloses
that astounding fact The MeXieanS
along the Rio Grande are reduced to
beggary. They are on the verge OF
starvation They do not have enough
10 eat There is not enough for them
70 eat, and they are almost naked.
More than 10000 Mexicans live on the
Il Paso side of the river They are
employed to do what labor IS done
and they are paid at the rate OF ABOUT
well fed men and women in FL Paso
1atten on the misfortunes Of the dis
tressed and bedraggled MeXicanS who
are ignorant and incompetent and who
seem pleased and privileged to feed
from the crumbs which fall from the
table Of the insolent and arrogant
Americans.
Me1ieanS in Troop Camps:
Hundreds of American soldiers are
encamped on the Texas side OF the
river and all the food hundreds OF
AeXlcanS ger are me l6dFlnES from
the tin platters Of the American sol
1iers. The soldier washes his own
mess platter, and. while he eats his
narrow and limited rations. Mexican
men. women and children surround the
mess tents in the attitude Of prayer,
begging for whatever scraps the sol
S7iers leave And the soldier. generally
kindly disposed wal6s from his mess
tent and scrapes his tin platter into
some vessel held out to him by the
starving Mexicans. The American SOL
Ciers are entirely foreign TO the people
of FL Paso- They have sympathy for
the distressed Mexicans.
As for the soldiers money the peo-
pie OF Fl Paso get most Of that Every
device known to greed is spread out
before the soldiers Catch-penny con-
frivances meet them upon every hand
The soldier is not material IN FL Paso,
but his money is attractive and well
worth the getting, and only the tight
wads among the soldier boys escape the
lures, municipality managed and prop
eriy policed. which are arranged on
every hand TO separate them from their
exceedingly limited income.
ssMunfcipal Dives"
THE saloons. the dives and the no
tells have enjoyed a season Of unsur-
passed prosperity. Making munitions
for the foreign belligerents has its
limitations and annoyances- But fl
nancing the bandits, dive keeping and
the saloon business in FL Paso are the
gilt edged war brides. and they out