The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-09-06
CEN. Al vARADO
WARNS CARRANZA
Of INTERVENTION
Former Prominent Carranzist
Gives Advice
u. S. NEAR END OF WAITING
Carranza, obregon and Gonzales Urged
to Unite In Great Revolutionary
Party

Washington, Sept 5.-Warning
Mexican5 that Intervention by the
United States is imminent General
salvador Alyarado, one of the leaders
, in the Carranza regime, has address
ed an open letter to CarranZa himself
and to Generals Obregon and Gonzal-
es, in which he arraigns conditions in
Mexico in scathing fashion.
Alvarado, who attracted the atten-
tion of all the Pan Americans to his
efficient administration in Yucatan
estimates that the present daily death
list in the scattered fighting between
dred a day In Mexico City alone, he
says, 5000 children die each year for
want of proper food, clothing and
shelte:
Alvarado states that after trying to
make the radical theories of the new
Mexican Constitution work in actual
practice, he believes the system must
be changed. Mexico, he says, has
passed from one extreme of an ire
sponsible, obstructionist congress, to
the other-a despotic, corrupting and
ultra-personal presidential regime
without responsibility or legal re-
straint. He eXcoriates the admins
tration of justice, charging that JUS
tice is sold to the highest bidder.
The full text of Alvarados remark
able communication has Just reached
the State Department, where officials
regard it as sign that members Of
Carranza's inner circle scent danger
Alvarado urges Carranza, Obregon,
and Gonzales to drop revolutionary
element in a great part to solve ma
tional problems, which he enumer-
ates as follows:
Pacification of the country, organi-
zation Of the army settlement of in
ternal and foreign debts, settlement
of claims for damages caused by the
devolution, the petroleum disputes,
organization of the national railways,
and settlement of the banking ques-
ton. He calls upon Carranza, as the
First Chief of the revolution, to lead
the movement, and upon Obregon and
Gonzales to resign their candidates.
for the Presidency and support 1t.
Abuses of the civil and military au-
thorities in some regions are so out
- dtoCouSs hc say - ilidl uC MOllucio tllc
inhabitants do not rise
So many are the causes impelling
the United States to intervene in
Mexico, Alvarado declares, the con
fiict will surely come sooner or later
unless the Mexican5 know how to pre-
vent it with ability and patriotism He
predicts President Wilson will change
his policy of "watchful waiting" if
every protest from the United States
is answered by news of new as
sault, new assa sination, or new
blowing up of train.
THE States are few" says the let
ter. lin which life and property in the
country are not at the mercy of ban
dts"
Toward the end of the letter Gen
eral Alyarado says:
There is no time to lose in the ar
rangement of our affairs. The Euro
pean war is ended; the three most
powerful nations Of the globe are
our creditors and demand an early
settlement OF their accounts, and in
like manner they ask for sufficient
guarantees for the lives and interests
of their nationals. If we show our
selves incapable of complying with
our duties, they will take over the
task OF guarding and protecting these
lives and interests, and we know
what that means