El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-10-02
BORDER READY
FOR COMMITTEE
Friends of Mexico, as Well
as Her Enemies, VIII
Give Testimony.


With the arrival here Of the United
States senate subcommittee named TO
investigate relations between Mexico
and the United states everything per
tanning to those relations offered in
evidence at the sessions us going to
be laid right OF the table" according
to word received here from senator
A. B. Fan Of New Mexico. chairman
Of the subcommittee. The arrival Of
the subcommittee is not more than
two weeks away.
Meantime, everybody on the Dor
der between Mexico and the United
states who has any information he
thinks VIII be OF benefit 10 the COM
mittee, TO the United States or 10
Mexico, is preparing TO testify, and
is getting The evidence systematized
Tor presentation And IL is predicted
here where the border activities CEN
ter. that it viii be the most sensa-
character ever offered TO an investi-
eating body.
VIII Air Old Grievances.
For Instance, part Of the evidence
VIII be testimony to the effect that
more than 500 Americans have been
slain by Mexicans in Mexico since the
revolution broke out in November,
1910. There viii be evidence offered
10 the effect that scores Of American
women have been fiendishly outraged
by Mexicans, some Of whom were az
terward killed and mutilated- Il Will
be stated before the subcommittee
that more than 100000, coo worth OF
property, owned or managed by
Americans has either been destroyed
or con1iscated by MeXicans in the
same period. In addition to those al
legations il will be brought TO the
committees attention that more than
Is Americans, including the two avi-
ators recently. have been held for
ransom. which ransom has in each
instance, so far as known been paid
The testimony referred TO above
has TO do with the violation OF Amer
lean rights in Mexico Furthermore.
there viii be reams Of dispositions
and dozens OF witnesses in person 10
the charges that MeXicans have been
raiding across the border almost
weekly since the Columbus raid.
March 9. 1916. These raids have ex-
tended the entire length Of the bOr-
der, it is alleged. from Tiajuana,
across from California, 70 Browns
VILE Texas, at the mouth Of the Rio
Grande. more than $500 miles.
Friends OF Mexico TO Testify.
The raids, however. have been nu-
merous and profitable to the raiders
IN Texas. The subcommittee win be
told By ranch owners, men and /
women, OF bands that have come
cans on this side OF the border. burnt /
crops and then sought refuge in 7
Mexico again until the American !
military gave up chase and returned I
TO its base
All OF the charges against Mexico /
as to what she has done TO Americans
within her borders and as 10 what /
she has permitted her citizens to do I
to Americans on the American side I
VIII. II is said here BY representa-
90 too
report 10 the senate and in large i
determine what the future
attitude OF the United States is TO
be- toward her southern neighbor.
It must not be imagined. though.
that only the American side Will be
heard. Friends OF Mexico. most Of
-nem MeNicans. viii appear before
he subcommittee and make an ef-
-ort 70 tell Of what they believe TO
1e the wrongs Mexico has suffered
It the hands Of America. 1t viii be
LHeged by these friends OF Mexico
hat American capitalists have come
nto Mexico to exploit her. that they
ave shown no regard for Mexican
government It also will be alleged
" Mexican witnesses that American
soldiers as wen as Mexican have
Tantonly fired across the border and
hat many, many aviators have flown
lcrcss the border in violation OF in
irrational law and the integrity OF
Mexico
Different Attitudes Toward Mexico.
Foremost among the friends OF
Iexico who hope to testify before
he Fall committee Is Juan Larrazolo,
on OF the governor OF New Mexico,
}. A Larrazolo. who by the way Is a
lative OF Old Mexico. The younger
dr- LarrazolO. who aspires 70 be one
4 New Mexico's representatives in
congress expressed his attitude in a
peech before the chamber OF com
nerce when he said that We should
emain on friendly terms with Mex
CO and that senator Fall was active
because he hoped the United States
would take Mexico and make him
GOVERNOR general
There are three attitudes toward
leNico along the border. First. there
$ the out and out lnterventionist
Tho favors going in and taking Mex
co as means Of giving outlet to
-merican capital and American IN
est Most Of these interventionists
re oil men or mining men or other
1en who have a financial interest
n seeing Mexico CONQUERED or cap
ured. Il IS admittedly true. here
hat many OF these men have a lust
-rievance against Mexico. sometimes
ecause members OF their families I
ave been 1nistreated OF because