Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1920-07-10
American Newspaper Man Picks
Up Interesting Information
in Mexico.
CHANGE TOWARD AMERICANS
Correspondent 10 First American to
Visit SIashed Repub-
Tic After Fall OF Carrsnxa--
People Want Peace.

| Chicago. Sidney M. Sutherland
writes to the Chicago Tribune from
Monterey, Mex, what he calls dis
Jointed tale OF q journalistic pilgrim in
quest of data In Mexico. 1t treats of
the entry Of the first American into
the revolution-slashed republic since
the roads were cut.
With passport In hand, approached
one Monahan, the guardian for Uncle
Sam at the Laredo international bridge
that is. the Rio Grande--there's no
bridge. Somebody burned the six-span
steel structure ten days ago. They
nave built pontoon nearly across the
200-yard-wide stream. Just now you're
poled across in skiffs.
Monahan looked at my passport and
me, and told me to forget the Mexican
consuls wise, as there are as many
consuls In Laredo as there are factions
In Mexico, and to proceed and to pray
God to give mercy to my immortal
soul.
/ stepped from civilization to five
centuries ago, to old shacks, narrow,
filthy streets, to crawling, fiy-dotted
beggars. to men In tatters, women in
rags, and children In less than fig
leaves. There Is one tram of one
mule power, dozens of Ill smelling.
make-shift dirty saloons, and hanging
like q pail over all the people and
businesses, the "wish-to-God this thing
would stop and we could get back to
work" feeling. Every human express
es more confidence in this regime than
In any since old Porfirio Diaz departed.
And there is new spirit toward
Somebody-and one ven
lures to credit General Obregon with
the idea--passed the order everywhere
to defer to things American and cut
out the nonsense. Obregon visited
several American camps during the
war and the Great Lakes to see the
United States when we meant business
and had stified the pacIfists. Every
body on both sides of the river told |
me no one could go South. SO jump
Cd into coach and was driven to the
barracks where Col. J. #. Borquez
commands the border between Eagle
Pass and Brownsville and south to
! told him who was
and what l wanted. After officially
Informing me of Monterey's fall, he
promised to comply with all my re-
quests.
Obtains Safe Conduct.
Telling me to return at 10 a. m. FRI
lay. he dictated a safe conduct pass.
It is the most complete document
ever saw and has worked wonders
only hope don't present II to the
opposing faction and get shot during
he confusion.
Borquez, yolclng what all the other
-ebel generals have told me since, said
,olemnly and earnestly:
'We're tired of fighting. Ten years
If strife have sapped us until the last
Mexican virtues--patience and for
been exhausted. Car
ANA would have had us in trouble
With America, and we can't stand for
hat. We want peace and chance
% work. That is all. To get 1t we
must be at peace at home and abroad.
rhe rebel chieftalns all rally to us be-
,ause Carranza meant trouble, and our
,lan means the simplest program of all
peace and work.
What carranxa Stood For.
"Carranza represented prc-this and
,ro-that, political autocracy, personal
private revenge and pure
raft. You will notice the revolution
wept most Of the republic without a
hundred shots being fired. That shows
It once that Carranza was not what
hey wanted and what our plan is.
Please be good enough to send only
me message to your people-have
title patience and we will make the
.rade."
/ was at the station at ten Friday.
there was water tank car, fiat car /
nd a caboess made of a converted