Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-07-29
CLAIMS CARRANzA
GOVERNMENT BUT
BAND OF BR|GANDS
Archaeologist Tells House
Committee Mexican
Foe to u. S.
SAYS FARMERS IN REVOLT
AGAINST SOLDIER BANDITS
Country People Attempt to Pro-
tect Their Property From
Presidents Troops.
DECLARES WILSON WAS N1IsLED
Hale and Stcffens Misinformcd Amer
lean Executive as to Conditions
In Republic, He Asserts.
SAYS FARMERS IN REVOLT
AGAINST SOLDIER BANDITS
DECLARES WILSON WAS MIsLED
Hale and Stcffens Misinfolmed Amer.
lean Executive as to Conditions
In Republic, He Asserts.
tBy A,rociated Press.1


WASHINGTON. July 2s.-Carranza.s
rule Of Mexico is not government,
but a band Of outlaws. both techni-
caily and practically" and today it is
utterly Impossible. an enemy OF its
own people first and America second"
William Gates, OF Baltimore, an arch
aeolosist. told the House Rules Com
mittee today in its hearings on the
Gould resolution proposing a congress
sional inquiry Into Mexican affairs.
Although asserting that President
isi Mi,tson was rnisled in making his de-
the Mexican 4 eeosn'za 81 re carranSa helisyms
plon. Gates declared in favor Of Icav-
ing the solution Of the Mexican prob
gent. he said. had been not fully IN
formed OF conditions in the Southern
Gates said his opinions were based
on hrst- hand study OF Mexican con-
July 1917, during which; tine time htst he vis 4"
iteu parts or the country usually not
states Of Tuea;sn F Vera '1craa'nF c1ua Fuebio 5hs
hMoraiss NJ nd oaxaca For twenty years
ne had been building UP a library OF
Mexican antiquities and literature, and
ms trip vas TO obtain more material
ana 70 find out what was gong on
behind the veil OF our censorship and
the Carranza censorship"
Always Ready to shoot.
Carranza's control includes tho main
ports and the railroads. with sdjoin-
OF the transportation lines. Gates as
serted This control. he said. Was tina,
OF body OF soldiers who are ready
TO shoot az moments notice In a
guns"
Maintaining ,ha, a genuine political
c!ared the so.:callcd bandits are the
country people: who when the Car.
lanzissas RAJ ,ss1l come come in to make raid take
the eyes OF the government
IN answer to an inquiry whether
fully and fairly advised Of Mexican
condstions. Gates answered.:
- am satisfied that President Will
as Carranza betrayed the Mexican peo-
pie. ] Imagine that President Wilson.
IKE many another faithful man. Will
time. We have been running along
that diplomatic track that there Was
no Mexico but Carranza except mere
and that Carranza ought TO have our
help 10 suppress those bandits. There
must have been some private interests
being served in the background There
always are in all parties. That the
real facts. under such circumstances.
could reach as far as President Wilson
would take good deal. and ] doubt
very much II they did.
obreEon Against United States.
General Obregon. who has been men
Toned, Toned as r,a presidential candidate 10
succeed G.,ss - Garranza hs ANA Vas declared by
American feeling. Gates also asserted
,hst ina s1rsstsry ne saw "a Letter written from
this country to Obregon. asking him
what he :hought-this was about LAST
April-what would be propitious
radical element of Mexico. Canada,
Cuba and the United States"
Gates told the committee that dur
ing the war the Germans operated a
wireless station near Mexico City con-
rected with 3 station in Spain, which
relayed messages to Nauen He also
asserted second station was main
tained by the Germans in one Of the
states south OF Mexico City. Secre-
tary Baker was Informed by Gates OF
these stations in the middle OF the
war" IN 1918. Gates said.
Declaring that he had a close friend
ship with Secretary Bakers Gates said
he had written several letters 10 him.
explaining Mexican affairs. but he ask.
in the records because he did mot
want to play politics" with statements
such as one would make only to a
close friend.
Atisled in their investigations Of
conditions in Mexico, William Bayard
Hale and Lincoln SteTens in turn
misled President Wilson into believing
that President Carranza was the "peo-
Cnrranza Anita merican.
The Mexican President, the wit
ness said. is more antiSaxon than an
ti-American. and hopes to set up the
supremacy Of the Latin races and de-
sires to drive American and British
capital from his country"
Gates said that after their investi-
cations in Mexico for the President.
the Germans.
The American people are not we'll
informed Of the affairs in Mexico. the
witness said. because American dip
lomats are able to talk on to Carran-
"a representatives and the American
press has received Carranza propa-
ganda.
Who prepared the propaganda ?"
asked Representative Smell, New York.
1T was written by Carranzistas and
fanded TO the Associated Press and IL
they did not send 1T out they would
the country"
tual bandits other than carranza SOL
BSsf BS their Ono oacers He He added hay that asaase se
revolutionary Arb bands , exist. and that in
safer than in Mexico City.
There is no guuaranty Of life or
RReap he T ADDED wren away sa9'1f from rs
them everybody is smiling and peace
Conditions Grow WorEe.
Conditions in Mexico, he testified
are Steadily getting worse" because
the Carranza government 'is simply a
military government where officers and
men are unrestrained." Carranza Of
fcers. he added. levy tributes on in.
. dividuals and communities. In this
connection. he told Of seeing the ruins
Of n farmhouse which had been burned,
flames. He also testified that a colonel
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