The Republican journal., 1916-07-27
THE TRAGEDY OF MEXICO.
from the New York Mail. |

twenty-five years ago an American,
whose father had made name for him
self as a pioneer in the opening of our
Western country, turned his attention to
Mexico. He took with him his own capt.
tai, and interested friends in America
and bankers IN Canada in Mexican de-
veopment. With him went scores of
millions of dollars that were used in
Mexico for dammlng rivers, for building
railroads, for irrigating arid stretches
and starting great plantations.
When President Taft visited the Mexi-
can frontier thousands of American
Beauty roses that had bloomed under
! this mans hand in that arid country
decorated his tables. Many thousands
of Mexicans received employment
and the opportunity to wrest, with
the improved tools of the white man,
from an arid land their sustenance in an
orderly way through the work of this
pioneer American.
Just as James j. Hill subjected through
his leadership and enterprise and through
the capital that backed him the prairies
of the Northwest to the culture of the
civilized man, so this man had pioneered
in Mexico Three years ago disaster be-
gan to overtake him. The tragedy of
the individual and the tragedy of the
nation are epitomized in the following
letter:
Comment is superfiuous.
To the Editor of The Evening Mail.
Sir-I am sorry to tell you that since |
saw you last have suffered great losses
in Mexico. All my plants have been des-
troyed, the machinery being broken up
wantonly, my orange orchard, one of the
M oil
provements burned, my houses in t.
are all vacant and being looted of doors,
sash, windows, roofs and flooring. Not
single property of mine has escaped.
and | am really ruined. l owe it all to
earnestly hope will be defeated in the
next election.
l haye received not a cent from these
properties. On the contrary, | have ex-
hausted myself in trying to keep my
people alive and exercise some semblance
of control and protection of my property.
l tell you frankly that the small check
which YOU sent NE for some editorial
work was God blessing when it came.
Just think of it, from affiuence to pen
ury, through no fault of mine and with
the present Administration see no hope
of relief.
| am enclosing an article which | have
written. 1t only tells the truth. You
must take notice of the condition of
starvation which now exists in Mexico
and is rapidly growing worse and will
continue to do so. A CHASTITY tragedy is
being enacted in that country, and if you
begin to set it forth in your paper you
will not make a mistake. You must bear
in mind that Mexicans as race are
heartless and pay no heed to the suffer-
ings of anyone. Starving women and
children would not deter them from TAX
ing their last morseI of food or induce
them to concern themselves about their
future. No effort, and but little means,
to plant exists, and therefore there is
practically nothing raised. What was
planted was destroyed wantonly or killed
by the drouth, which has been unpre-
cedented. | have come into possession
of many important particulars about the
inside workings of the Carranza Govern
ment, both in Mexico City and elsewhere.
Carranza is personally powerless. He
lives in a Pullman car at the railroad
station and earnestly wishes to go to
Yucatar, but Oregon and Cabrara, who
are the real rulers, will not permit him to
leave.
You may rely that the de facto Gov
eminent is purely a shell, unable by any
means to MAINTAIN itself, should the Juror
of military Intervention subside. l have
recent specific information from their
side of the situation.
Whether Wilson wants war or not, in
tervention is bound to come.
AN AMERICAN.
Texas BORDER ,IulV 2nd