El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-07-17
j. s. ARRESTS
NEWSPAPERMEN
Editor and Business Man
ager of La Republica Civ
en- Preliminary Hearing.

canoe of this can escape no one; we
are living in a foreign country and
cannot express frakly and freely what
we feel We trust that the public will
understand and appreciate our diff
cult position in which we are placed,
between our duty to continue pub
fishing this periodical that We may
give the news to our readers and the
evident impotence in giving free rein
to our thoughts"
Another article of July Il. 1913.
purporting to have appeared on page
of the paper is headed: There will
be a Union of Factions TO Overthrow
Carranza," and is quoted in part as
follows.
''This most transcendentaIIy
important conference will be held
upon the frontier of Texas, vital
pOlitfcaIly-in these moments
when n foreign nation threatens
to invade our territory.
All the revolutionary chieftians
whose pictures we publish on this
page, declare that they will not,
under any combination Of circum-
stances, accept American inter
ventiOn; and if, unfortunately ii
Is brought about. they Will fight
upon the battlefield without 9TH
er flag or other aim than to rem
der respect to the rights which
they cherish of Mexico. to live as
a nation free. sovereign and indie
PENDENT
Another article, said to have ap-
peared under the same date is quoted
as follows: Everything indicates
that there will be Intervention in
Mexico. In case of war by the United
States with Mexico what shall we, the
Mexican refugees who live in the diff
Ierent American cities do?
The case OF the Germans will be re-
peated- This makes il to be
supposed that in case of intervention
on our national soil millions of Next
cans will so to fulfill theii, duty in
ference OF their country, which is
Among the translations held by W.
h Fryer, United States attorney,
which are alleged to have appeared
n La Republica are the following.
given with the dates of their alleged
as translated by govern
nent agents and experts:
March 8, 1919" The Mexican Nat
-er has been taken up in Paris, and
iareIul scrutiny directed TO the pres
mt conditions Of the Mexicans, which
an not be more critical. nor more
complicated than with Carranza in
,oWer. It is said that France and
have signified their willing
less to leave TO president Wilson the
equations of our affairs, having alb
iolute faith in the plans which he NAV
AIRY out to pacify Mexico. Mexican
matters viii not then be taken I'D at
he european conference, as was ru-
nored; not only because the Carranza 1
government has refused TO take any
art IN the said conferences. but be-
ause the allied nations regard the
hief executive of our country with I
usplelon- The coming policy of 1
May }, 1919-@Because Gen. Al
Tarez WIS assnssinated villain
Ously without the executfOnerS be-
ing able to get from him the
secret which had been cOnfided 10
him as a man of honor; because
engineer Ceramics and his in
trepid comrades were sold by
bad man, n bloodhound of consul
Garcia; because n little while ago
lawyer Garcia NaranjO and Gen.
santiago Mendez and Robert GayOn
were arrested, some friends and
religionists sadly hung their heads,
as If TO say that the thing is past
remedy Some have actually
reached the point of saying: This
finishes il. Washington does not
wish it. We shall have Carranza
yet WHILE
This is an error, as we understand
To await everything from Wash
lgton' as if it were a divine provi-
ence- These fatal things happen be-
ause 1t was preOrdained that they
Mould come 10 pass; because it was
ecessary that they should happen.
nd they would have been realized if
Tashington had not wished il. :"
VeIaSeo's Statement.
The article ends: The secondary
is Washington in this
ase and should be in all. Now one
pes not talk of inspiring a certain
olicy of counseling such a proceed
lg; Of imposing a doctrine. The
roblem is of vital Importance to our
ountry and we are not for compro-
Use We should approach and handle
le thing in an entirely absolutely
ational sense, in order that the am
tions and aims of all may best be
salized- We should not forget that
e are not subject to a tutor; nor do
e need a protector"
In a statement regarding the arrest
himself and Alvarez, Velasco said:
We always have respected the laws
the United States. We have op-
-ated our paper here for 16 months
Id are well known A few months
90 we were charged with falling to
le a translation. At that time we
ere recommended 10 the judge by
?. Fryer because we had waged a
ed Cross campaign and others for
lnds for the allies. We were dis
Used with merely paying the costs