Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-08-09

went into Mexico in good faith when
law and order prevailed and both the
Mexican government and their own
guaranteed them protection are now
told to abandan all of life's earnings
and flee the country or take the Mexi-
can consequences. They are advised
that they are absolutely abandoned by
! their government, which admits it's
own weakness and inability to care
for them or their property. Abandon.
ed and left helpless in time when
lawlessness prevail and robbery, muir
der, and the grossest outrages are run
riot, when Americans are the special
prey Of the lawless, when no sem.
blance of legal government is seen
and anarchy rules supreme"
B. A. Cordell, ranchman, spoke on
the relation existing between the
American and the lower classes Of
Mexicans in Mexico. II don't want to
say anything against President vii.
son." he said. ~ don't think he un.
derstands conditions in Mexico, or he
would never have called us robbers
or criminals. The peon realizes that
the gringo' is his friend. The Amer
lean ranchman entered Mexico and
employed these men. The Americans
have been kind to them, they have
helped them and venture to say
there is not labOrer on my place
who would not share his last morsel
of food with me il he thought l want
ed 1t, and | think. you have all found
this So 1t is not the masses that
have caused this war
That they all agreed that the peon
was the gringo's friend was manifest.
cd BY loud applause. I#
Harvey C. Stilev.#wh presided at
the meeting called for the reading OF
the resolution which was adopted by
a standing vote OF all present.
The resolution lis as follows:
1--WE, who are bona fide citizens of
the United States Of America, many of
us who for period Of years have
been residing in Mexico and repre-
sent practically every line of labor,
or have property and other interests
which have suffered as a result OF
more than five years Of revolution and
feudalism in the Republic of Mexico
many whose possessions have been
completely wiped out by confiscation
and destruction during the protracted
era Of anarchy throughout the major
portion of the republic, invoke this
as our first organized movement OF
Americans representing practically ev-
cry portion of the stricken republic
and labor and capital interest both
there and along the borders OF the
United States side: and we united un-
der our constitutional right for red.
ress and take this method Of laying
the facts which have been so often
and persistently perverted before the
American Congress- and people.
Reports have gone out to the world
through portion iof the press, pro-
mulgated from the stump and repeat
eddy asserted from the highest off,
ciai sources of the United States Gov
eminent. that American property hold
ers in Mexico sought intervention in
Mexico by the United States for the
promotion of their interests In order
that they might exploit the Mexicans.
We have been denounced as grafters.
exploiters, falsifierS and other SINH
lar epithets applied.
1--WE feel confident that we, many
of us who have lived In Mexico for a
large period of our lives. have been
identified with the people of Mexico
and have had our interests in COM
mon with the Mexicans, are better
those who have not had such privi-
leges.
"To unit we resent these imputa-
tons. For period Of more than