Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-09-06
CIVIL WARFARE
COSTS MEX|CANs
100 men DAILY
Yucatan Leader Warns Carranza
To Stop fractional Fight
ing and Unite.
SAYS INTERVENTION
BY u. S. IS DANGER
Excoriates Administration as Being
Corruptible, Despotic and Ultra
Personal Presidential
Regime.

washington, Sept. 5.-Warning
Mexicans that intervention by the
United States is imminent, Genera
Salvador Alvarado, one of the lead
ers Of the Carranza movement
throughout its course, has addressed
an open letter to Carranza himself
and Generals Oregon and Gonzales
in which he arraigns conditions in
Mexico in scathing fashion.
A!varado, who attracted attention
OF all the Pan Americas for his adj
ministration in Yucatan, estimated
that the present daily death list in
the scattered fighting between fed
eral troops and rebels is 100 a day
In Mexico City alone, he says, 5000
children die each year for want of
proper food, clothing and shelter
Alvarado, after trying to make the
radical theories of the new Mexican
constitution work in actual practice
declares the system must be changed
He declares Mexico has passed from
one extreme Of an irresponsible, OBJ
structionist congress, to the other-a
despotic, corrupting and ultra-per-
sonal presidential regime without
responsibility or legal restraint. He
excoriates the administration of jus.
tice, charging that justice is sold to
the highest bidder.
Urges Union.
The full text of Alvarado's remark
able communication has just reached
the state department. where officials
regard it as SIGN that members of
Carranza's inner circle realize danger.
Alvarado urges Carranza, Obregon
and Gonzales to drop personal poll
tics and unite with the revolutionary
element in a great party to solve ma
tional problems, which he enumerates
as follows:
Pacification of the country, organ
ization of the army, settlement of in
ternal and foreign debts, settlement
of claims for damages caused by the
revolution, the petroleum problem, or
ganization 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 it.
Abuses Of the civil and military au-
thorities in some regions are so out
rageous, he said, that he wonders the
inhabitants do not rise in arms.
Says U. S. Will Chance.
So manv are the causes impelling
the United States to intervene in Mex
leo, Alvarado declares, that the con-
flict surely will come sooner or later,
unless the Mexicans know how to pre-
vent it with ability and patriotism.
He predicts President Wilson will
change his policy of ''watchful wait
ing" if every protest from the United
States is answered by news of new
assault, a new assassination or new
blowing up of train.
"The states are few" says Alvar-
ado, Gin which life and property in
the country are not at the mercy OF
bandits"
Toward the conclusion of his letter,
General Alvarado says:
"There is no time to lose in the
arrangement of our affairs. The
European 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 suf-
ficient guarantees for the lives and
interests of their nationals. 1t we
show ourselves incapable of comply
ing with our duties, they will take
over the task of guarding and protect
ing these lives and interests, and we
know what that means"