Bisbee daily review., 1918-04-16
THAT MEXICAN UNDERGROUND.

Again the Mexican underground of the kaiser has loomed up. Admitted menace for the past year, known to have existed since date prior to the declaration of war between the United States and Germany, recognized as the route through which a large part of the Hun espionage is accom- plished, it has bobbed up before us this time simultaneously at points in California and texas. ev
 A woman, operating the underground discovered in Texas, has been indicted on four counts by the federad courts on charges of espionage. The indictments charge the woman with seeking informa- ton for the use of Germany on a military reservation through entering the reserva- ton, attempting to secure photographs of the camps, and requesting data of military nature from enlisted men of the United states army.
 The opening of the underground in Cal ifornia was much more grave. A sailor was arrested at Martinez. He had served on the German raider Leipsic He carried his diary of the raiders activities-and in the diary were discovered details of sys- tematic espionage system directed by a German vice consul in Mexico. Peters duties included daily report to German officials of departures and destinations of vessels and of war preparations in this country. Detailed maps of the coast forti- fications at San Francisco and Seattle har- bors were among the papers taken from him. The sailor has been ordered interned for the period of the war as dangerous alien enemy.
 The significant points at issue in these instances of the discovery again of the Ieu- ton espionage route into Mexico, are these both the woman and man have been in Arizona within the past few weeks. The woman made her way across the state from the Pacific coast, stopping several times. The man came from California, remained in the state only few days, and returned to his base of operations. Neither was de- tained in the state. Neither was question ed. Neither was suspicioned, probably, but both were on the same mission.
 Is 1t not possible to call halt to this Prussian activity? Has not the day arrived when the state should take hand in assist ing the government when state, county and municipal officers should be authorized to scrutinize all strangers, when every man and woman should be called on to give satisfactory account of his or her business? Does not the safety of the state and nation demand the enactment in this country ot laws as stringent and far-reaching as the military laws of the nation with which we are at war!
 The governor holds, within his powers the means to lend this hand of assistance to the government. He will call special ses- sion of the legislature soon. He should in- clude in his call provision for the enact ment of a sedition law so drastic as to reach all classes of pro-Germans including the professional agitator, the pacifist, the l. w. w. and the malcontent; and to enable off cers of the law to search out these charac- ters he should propose the abolition of the anti-blacklist law and in its place the enact ment of statute conferring on all citizens the right to question the business of Strang- CTS within the bounds of the state.
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