Bisbee daily review., 1918-04-30
4 Warming to CarrGnza


 That Mexico is the nest and centre of German activity upon the western conti- nent today goes without saying. Our south ern neighbor harbors our enemies in her house. German propagandists are fragrant and open there in their spoken and printed lies about the war and America part in it. Carranza was the only neutral ruler upon the earth who sent birthday felicitations to the Beast at Berlin Only with his tolerance or sanction would German agents and sym. pathizers be so bold and brazen and active in Mexico as they are at this time. And here and there voice is raised in protest Leading Mexicans of the better class look ahead and see the United States as their one great friend and disinterested and unselfish helper in the solution of their problem of destiny They are sounding warning now to Carranza that IS most earnest and insist ent in its appeal T. R. Beltran, former Mexican consul, in his paper, the LaDe- fensa, in an editorial under the striking cap ton, The Bugle Call, checks it up to Car ranza in part as follows;
 The carnage of battles fought in Eu- rope recently, in which an important part has been taken by the troops of the United States, has produced the countless victims that are inevitable in war as sanguniary as that in progress in the Old World.
 Many homes in the United States are in mourning. Few homes there are which do not expect to receive, sooner or later the sad news that beloved member of the fam fly has sacrificed his life in the supreme struggle against German autocracy and the internal doctrines of German ''kultur.
 "A good neighbor and true friend can not view, except with great displeasure, the presence in his neighbor's house of an as- sassin bent on crime Nor does a good neighbor and true friend countenance the act of the assassin in using the fruit of his crime to gain adherents to his dark savagery and by process of cynical apology seek to advance extenuation for his offense The families of young men who already have made the supreme sacrifice, and the fam flies of those who are even now immolating themselves on the altar of democracy, can not view with pleasure the fact that in Mex ico, their neighbor and their supposed good friend the enemy of mankind, the Hun, is- allowed to spread his insidious propaganda and inculcate ideas in the hearts of those who by reason of democratic affinities and affiliations, should be bound to the United States by the very strongest bonds of neigh borliness.
 The time has arrived to speak plainly and uncquivocally This is our duty The time for vacillation is passed. The ugly facts must be faced, in order that Mexico may redeem herself and maintain her hon. orable position in the international congress of nations
 Mir President Carranza, Mexico is fac ing tragic moment-perhaps more tragic and more painful than any heretofore ex- perienced by our unfortunate country. And this calamitous misfortune, looming so ominously in the not distant future 1t Is your duty and the duty of all true Mexi- cans, to prevent. The sacred obligation of safeguarding the honor of Mexico and her material interests, rests on your shoulders and on the shoulders. of those associated with you.
 There is still time, Mr. President Car ranza, but the time is rapidly diminishing. Only the very promptest action can offset the grave impression of unfriendliness caused by the pro-German propagandists of Mexico.