Arizona republican., 1919-09-10
MEXICAN REBELS ADDRESS APPEAL Fl E ASSISTANCE
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 9.-An appeal for formal recognition of the United States of the belligerency of the va rious anti Carranza revolutionary fac tions in Mexico and for financial aid in the proposed overthrow of Carranza and in the setting up of a provisional coalition government was presented at the white house late. today.
 The appeal which pledges recon struction and restoration to national health" of chaotic Mexico, bears the seals of Gilarado Niagara, commander of the ''reorganizing army" Guillermo Meixueiro, commander of the "defen- sive forces of the free and sovereign state of Oaxaca;" Felipe Angeles and Francisco Villa, commanders of the convention forces" and Manuel Pelaez the commander of the constitution of 1857 revolutionary army"
 Charging President Carranza with having constituted himself ''irrespon- by his ''illegal and despotic confisca ton of foreign owned properties and the murder of hundreds of foreign citi- zens" brought about inminence of American intervention with having ais ACo AAAASCA1 LII 0AliA ta0AI<1AASlL and later with the German cause made Mexico prey of the most cruel and brutal tyranny our country has had to endure in all the past century of it's efforts toward freedom.
 The appeal proposes conference of all the revolutionary factions with representatives of the United States fnx ka <.f ,1<A gram for reconstruction and restora . ton of Mexico
 Today the truth is coming to light says the appeal, and today Venustianc Carranza, your enemy as he and his circle of officials are ours, is threat ening to draw upon us the natural result of his and their crimes.
 We are about to be made to suffe, for the crimes of those who have mur- dered our fellows; we-all Mexicans- gre being cried against for the deeds of our oppressors; Mexico is about tC be called and treated as, the enemy o your great democracy, on account oi the deeds we have now for five year, resisted with our blood, committed by those few evil men who by theil entrenched position. have been en ahled to do all these things.
 "Carranza and the entire circle o his supporters. without one single ex ception, have betrayed you and you placed trust and hopes as he betrayed us and the support given him at tha time.
 We are fighting for our libertie and our homes: the war in Mexico vii never cease until that fight is gained it can not cease.
 We ask that recognition which ii the bounded right of all who fight fol their homes. their liberties and thei laws. We ask that we may be heard that We may have a standing iron which to speak and plead the cause o oppressed Mexico and our children Toward this end we, the signer hereto, for ourselves and all those ", represent, and those who entrusted t, us their defense, pledge to you hereb, our united cooperation in the protec 1 tion of life and property throughou 1 the territory of the Mexican fedora tior; we pledge ourselves to unite il the formation of a provisional admin l istration upon coalition basis of tn liberal elements. those elements tha seek true democracy and the welfar I of the nation, to it's very lowest an, humblest citizens, instead of persona power and authority, or personal az 1 grandizement.'