The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-05-08
MANY MXICANS FEAR NEW
REPRLSALS WHEN TROOPS GO
Natives Expect Both Carranzistas and Vinistas Will
Punish Them for Aiding NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Will Follow Army to the Border.

guilty of the attack upon Columbus It
will not be followed. but rather pre-
coded. to the border by every American
now living in northern Mexico. and
they will not go through mere senti-
ment. but because of a certain knowledge
that to remain will mean persecution IL
not death.
Bencat a. People.
The revolutions OF the past five years
hay. been of benefit To- the people OF
Mexico, in that they nave had the effect
to cause the burden bearers to awake
TO the fact that they do not have to sub
NIT tamcly to the eXaetions put upon
them In the past by their pastors and
their masters and others put over them
in authority" as the catechism puts it,
We meet MeXicans every day who tell
US they are tired of war and that they
would be glad OF an opportunity to go
10 work. but they would also like to have
the burden OF taxation placed more
equitably than IL used to be in the good
old days Of peace and Don forfirio.
We are told b, these men. tenants Of
one 81 the land baIons made so by the
grace of the same Don porfirio. that the
tenants who attempted to farm the till
able lands on this great Santa Maria
estate. or who ran cattle on the grazing
lands of the same estate. were compelled
TO pay taxes IN the full valuation OF
every milk COW. work OK or agricultural
implement and on every head OF beef
cattle on the ang while the owner paid
taxes upon less than one-tenth OF the
value OF what he claimed as his share
Of the crops grown. or the increase OF
the herds and none upon the land.
voted for La nd Owners Men.
These men admit that they Wen,
through the form OF ~elec'ing their own
representatives in the State legislature
and their own tax assessors and tax
CATERERS and other local officers. but
they also admitted that they voted for
the men named by the land owners
through fear that II they did not do 40
they would he driven from their little
leaseholds as man Of their fellows,
holder than the others. had been driven.
only 10 become outlaws with prices upon
thetr heads, for their tenerit, In the
matter 81 attempting to save for them
selves a portion OF the proceeds 81 their
toll
Are YOU q Nilllsta or \ ~Carranzi>,a" 49,
asked or an old farmer who stopped
his work for a few ~rinutes the other
day and came down to the bank OF the
river to watch the ba:hers while his
oxen rested from the drudgery NJ pulling
a wooden plough hrougn the soil bv
means or n primitive yoke attached TO
thei' horns in such n name tina, they
were compelled to hold their heads at an
angle which must nave been torture
(which has the most men" was hi,
naive and Yankeelike reply. and M.
Yankeelike reply tells the story. The
poems have been tn. victims ~ force
for so long that even IL the, have had
any princlples they are AFRAID In an
nounce them
This nan moved t~,lkat,ye AS "a. ma.
came better acquainted "A. rouId no,
read or write. though IA. rad p,,s
through m. motions ,f going TO s,lonl
to the padre of the Namiouip, church
TIL H.. vas old enough IN rsc.iv. srs,
communion. after which ne WAS mn, Ia
work. herdiur cat,l. nm M. u.s strong
enough To hold . Plough and AZ otbe,
farm work.
Though upI.,,srad h. w,s Gar from,
being isnorani IA. knew ,u ,h,ut M.
Milan az tuadelun. ana IN. aro,,, -,
Madero and OF Villa and ,.arr,nz. 10
hing .bn,, reforn. xhi.h uo,,,d ,as,i,