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2 A T7EARXT'S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, AUGUST 31, 1013. ooooochxxxx>o<xkxx>o<X)c>oocxxkx)oooooooooooooooooooc)Ooooo<30oooooxx50ooooooooooooo "WELL—AND WHAT OF IT?" Copyright,1913. Inter national New* Service EN BY WHITE HOUSE Sunday American’s Request for Com plete List of American Slain Denied. Record Compiled From Dispatches.! Continued from Page 1. made on Neuva Buena Vista on February 21, 1913. HOLMES, MRS. E. W., killed by a shell during the bombardment of Mexico City in February, this year. WARD, FRANK, shot in back by bandits in his home near Yago, Tepic Territory, April 9, 1913. HOWARD, JOHN S. H., United States customs inspector, assas sinated on Mexican soil, near Eagle Pass, Texas, February 10, 1913. UNIDENTIFIED PRISONER, who was in Deputy Howard s cus- tody. SOTO, BABLO, merchant of Naco, Arizona, killed by stray bullet during conflict between Federals and rebels on March 24, 1913. BUSHNELL, L., mounted policeman, killed in Naco, Arizona, March 24, 1913, by a stray billlet ftred by rebels. HORACE, FRANK, killed by bandits in Coalcoman, State of Mich- eacam, in March, this year. RUSSELL, HERBERT L., manager of American Vice-Consul McCauphan’s ranch near City of Durango, murdered by rebels September 29, 1912. Consul Theodore C. Hamm cabled a re port to the Department of State. WILLIAMS, ROBERT, policeman of Phoenix, Arizona, killed by Mexican bandits who crossed the line to attend a celebration of Mexican Independence Day in Phoenix on September 16, 1912. PRICE, SCOTT, bystander, killed when bandits were firing on Williams. MATHESON, N., an aged and crippled Mormon, killed while flee ing from Colonia Morelos, Sonora, on September 16, 1912, when bandits were looting the town. M'KINZIE, , an American resident, executed near Agua Prieta in September, 1912, because the rebels suspected he had given information to Federal troops. WAITE, W. H., manager of the Esmeraldes plantation, at Ocho- tal, Vera Cruz, killed in April, 1912, when he refused to pay money demanded by bandits. He was beheaded. FOUNTAIN, ALBERT, captured by Orozco, the rebel leader, in April,. 1912, and assassinated. Described to the Department of State by a United States Consul as “a cold-blooded murder.” HARVEY, J. D., American Mormon, killed at Colonia Diaz May 3, 1912, by bandits. STRAUSS, H. L., formerly a correspondent for the New York Herald, killed, with 34 other non-combatants when Zapatists held up a train August 11, 1912, near Cuantla, Morelos. HERTLING, JOHN, Douglas, Arizona, a German American citizen, hanged near Nogales by rebels under Orozco in July, 1912. SCHUBERT, GUIDO, Douglas, Arizona, a friend of Hertling, hanged at the same time. STEVENS, JOSHUA, an American settler of Colonial Pacheco, murdered by rebel soldiers while protecting his two daughters from assault. Press dispatches described his murder as the fifth in that American colony. KANE, THOMAS G., conductor on a Guanajuato railroad, shofl through head when bandits wrecked a train at Silao and killed many passengers, on April 10, 1912. SEFFER, PEHR OLSSON, formerly a professor in the University of California, killed by rebels on April 29, 1911, together with three of his servants, near Cuernavaca. CAMP, JOHN, killed near the United States Immigration Station in El Paso, Texas, May 9, 1911, when the rebels attacked Juarez. FERGUSON, R. H., of San Francisco, a member of Troop F, Third United States Cavalry, killed by bullet fired over the border, GARCIA, ANTONIO, killed in El Paso, May 9, 1911, by stray rebel bullet. TWO UNIDENTIFIED MEN, killed May 9, 1911, in El Paso, by stray bullets fired by Federals and rebels. CLARKE, DR. R. C., Taylorsville, Ill., shot dead in Mexico City, May 27, 1911, by a partisan of General Diaz. LOCKHART, JOHN R., Scott's City, Mo., mining engineer, killed by bandits in Durranneo, in November, 1911. MEREDITH, R. N., Troy, Ohio, struck by bullet in the Porter Ho tel during the bombardment in Mexico City in February. GRIFFITH, MRS. PERCY, legs shot off during bombardment of Mexico City. THOMAS, A. E., murdered by bandits while protecting wife and seven children near Nogales, Sonora, March 10, 1912. HUNTINGTON, ROBERT, railroad switchman, shot without cause near Agua Prieta, April 13, 1911. EDWARDS, J. C., native of Virginia, shot to death while acc^ dentally within the rebel lines near Agua Prieta, April 13,1911. CROWE, EDWARD, killed by Mexicans shooting across United States border at Douglas, Arizona, April 12, 1911. Convicts, Turned Loose, Loot Defenseless City [ TO Ft, JUST LIKE IDERO Harrison as Governor of the Philippines an Unfit Appointment Frederick Upham Adams Shows Why ‘Liberty’ in Mexico Must Be a Farce. By FREDERICK UPHAM ADAMS. All the troubles which now distract Mexico and which have disgraced her for the past three years in the eye* of the world trace their cause to a revolting lust for graft. The masses of th e Mexican people are as honest as the average of mankind, but those who aspire to political or military rank make slight pretense of disguis ing the fact that they consider a pub lic office as an opportunity for public plunder. Political and military officials have stolen from Mexico hundreds of mil lions of dollars, and have escaped with their vast peculations to France. Spain and other foreign countries. One political favorite of Porflrio Diaz amassed $100,000,000 or more, and managed to convert much of it into gold and send jt abroad before the aged despot was deposed. The Mexican army Is held intact by graft. When Madero appealed in vain to his people he was compelled to fall back on an army officered by as despicable a coterie of mercenaries as ever disgraced a nation. Certain of these officers betrayed their coun try by methods which make the trea son of Benedict Arnold appear almost exemplary. Ruse to Secure Recruits. President Madero was the com mander-in-chief of a standing army in excess of 60,000 men. Many of the privates had been recruited from the ocxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo KXJOOOOOOOOOOOOOO mm L Here arm some specific instances. Is e? which are in the hands of the officials of the Department of Plate, the accuracy of which have not been challenged; During the 24 hours of officially sanctioned freedom accorded to the rebel troops by General Tomas Ur bina e/ler the capture of Du range*, on June 13* hundreds of vrumen and girls were outrag^di Americans were ruth- lesslf shot down or thrown Into pris on i starve and homes were sacked and burnt*!, and anarchy reigned supreme Ai De&rh, of Ban Francisco, eye witness to these outrages* journeyed to Washington and gave a complete, detailed and vivid account vf the atrocities to Secretary *>f state Bryan Drunken bandits, posing as p*t- triots of the reb*d army, de^cepded poc the borne of Frank Ward, an eriean. near tlga In Tepic Terri- y, an or about April 9, and, after looting VV aid In the bavA and suink ing an American neighbor named Marsh up by the neck and binding him hand and foot, four of these sav ages, in the presence of the dying Ward and the tortured Marsh, ill- treated Mrs. Ward. Then, from the roof of the looted home, an American Hag was torn down, spit upon and trailed in the dust Muerts to Kill American^. Through T, I>. Edwards, American Consul in Juarez, the Slate Depart ment was advised on July 22 of Uireats to kill all the Americans, In cluding women and children, in the Madera settlement in retaliation for the death «*f two of the rebel bandits. Mexican Federals in the Stale of Durango, according to pree advices on August 16, were shooting all pris oners taken, regardless of national ly O. V Seifert, a mining man, was quoted as authority for this infor mation. i t urn l amyaco Washington has re reived an official report that early this month Matthew' Gourd, an Amer ican farmer, lashed to a tree, was compelled to witness the most das tardly outrages upon his two daugh ters, 17 and 30 years of age, by ban dits. Since Francisco I. Madero. Presi dent of Mexico, was assassinated aft er he had been deposed from office through betrayal of his trusted aide, General Victoriano Huerta, now the Provisional President, murder and. pillage have prevailed from the Rio Grande to Guatemala, and the Washington authorities, through the Embassy in Mexico City and the consular officers in the several States, has been fully advised as to these outrages. Shot by Stray Bullets. United States citizens who were on this side of the boro%r In Texas and Arizona have been shot down by stray bullets from the rifles of Fed eral and rebel troops engaged in con flict on Mexican soil. Statistics compiled from consular reports from Mexico nhow that the lives of 20,000 Americans are im periled by “the southern republic; that the $1,067,770,000 of American investments south of the Rio Grande have depreciated approximately 50 per cent, and that Americans and American corporations have suffered a property loss of $150,000,000. As fir back as April 21 Senator Mark Smith, of Arizona, presented a resolution in the United States Sen ate, calling upon President Wilson and Secretary Bryan for this Infor mation: "How many Americans have been killed in Mexico or wounded or driven from that country, what damages Americans have suffered, what claims have been presented and what action has been taken by this Government toward enforcing them, what citizens have been held for ransom and what redress has been offered or de manded ?” Resolutions Are Buried. Senator Smith’s resolution, like similar ones offered by Senator Poin dexter. of Washington, and Senator Penrose, of Pennsylvania, have been buried away in the pigeonholes of the desk of Senator Augustus O. Ba con, of Georgia, chairman of the Sen ate Committee on Foreign Relations. These three United States Senators have been held up to the American public as "jingo statesmen." The Sunday American has repeat edly requested the State Department to make public the official advices re ceived from Mexico. Those requests have been ignored or denied. Washington dispatches of August 6 gave a detailed account of the report submitted to Secretary of State Bry an by M. A. Leach, of San Francisco, who was in Durango in June, when that city was wicked and burned and American citizens wibjeoted to the most outrageous indignities. Repre sentative Julius Kahn, of California, accompanied Mr. Leach to the State Department Leach Describes Atrocities. Portions of Mr. Leach’s report to the State Department, as vouchsafed for by Representative Kahn, follows: "Living as I have for the last three years in the State of Chihuahua and in Durango, the hotbed of the trou ble, I have been forced to go through many trying experiences and to wit ness many revolting spectacles. The w'orst, however, that I have ever seen was what took place in the city of Durango after its capture on June 18 by the forces of Tomas Urbina, Ca- liztro Contreras, Domingo and Ma riano Arrieta and Orestes Perada, numbering in all some 4,200 so-called Maderistas. "No sooner had these men entered the city than they began breaking in to all the cantinas (saloons), drink ing such liquor ^.s they found there, We have waited several days to see if any valid reason or ex planation could be given for President Wilson’s appointment of Francis Burton Harrison to be Governor-General of the Philip- after which the wholesale sacking and looting of the entire city began. Not a single store escaped 1 eing com pletely sacked. The largest store, ‘La Suiza’ (German), the Fabrica De- Franeia and Francla Maritima (French), and the Durango Clothing Company (American) were burned after being sacked, and many others, entailing property loss of more than 10,000,000 pesos. Prisoners Turned Loose. "All prisoners from jails and the State penitentiary, some 400 in num ber, were turned loose and all crim inal and land records were burned. Not content with this, all houses were entered and much loot taken and damage done. Scores of Mexican people were shot down and dragged through the streets of the city during the eight days 1 remained there after the city was captured. (Durango was captured June 18.) "Rogers Palmer, an Englishman, 25 years of age, employed by the con struction department. National Rail ways, was killed because he failed to open a safe to which he did not have the combination. Two Wounded by Bomb. "Carlos von Brandis, a wealthy mining man. and L. W. Elder, owner j of a large hacienda, both Americans, were severely wounded by a bomb used to force the door of the Mc Donald Institute, where many of the foreigners had assembled by pre arrangement for their mutual protec tion. "All inside, some 150 in number, were then lined up against the wall and threatened with execution unless a certain sum of money was imme diately raised and all horses, arms and ammunition wore delivered. The foreigners were forced to do as told to save their lives. "H. W. Stepp, a civil engineer, an American, was shot through one leg because he failed to pay over the sum of 600 pesos, which he di'd not have.’’ Men Put to Torture as Troops III treat Women The greatest difficulty has been experienced in compiling a list of American women and girls who were illtreated because of the unwilling ness of relatives to even allow an of ficial record to be made of the facts. A few of the isolated cases follow: WARD, MRS. FRANK—Attacked by four rebel soldiers near Yago, on April 9. while her husband, who was shot in the back, was dying. GOURD, MISS. 30 years old—Attack ed by bandits about August 1, after her father. Matthew Gourd, an American farmer residing near Tampico, had been lashed to a tree. in the same manner as her sister. Scores of other American women, whose names were withheld in the news dispatches. SHAY, MRS.—Horsewhipped by ban dits in the presence of her hus- clothing and money near Culican on March 26, 1912, and left to face star vation in desert while trying to make her way to the border. WHATLEY, Mrs. A. H.—Illtreated by Mexicans near Parral and com pelled to pay $200, all the money she had, to prevent children from being murdered before her eyes, July 14, 1912. THREE AMERICAN WOMEN, de scribed as Mrs. Deniwilero, Mrs. Jackson and Mrs. Bushness, roughly handled by rebels at Noviato in March, 1912. MACFARL1N, shot through the arm by bandits. BENTLEY, S. A., beaten by soldiers in Juarez jail May 1, 1912, and strung up by ropes because he was suspected of being a spy. RICHARDS, C. W.. of El Paso, a com panion of Bentley, met with same brutal treatment. BAKER, JOHN, private Twenty-sec ond Infantry, shot by rebels, Juarez, May 6, 1912, while patrolling bor der. BAGBY, D. L., assaulted and robbed near Culican w r hil P endeavoring to escape to border with wife and chil dren. Escaped by payment of $700, March 26, 1912. STEVENS, CASS, American miner, stoned and driven from Culican for appealing to Governor for protec tion. March 27. 1912. SKELTON, "JACK,” American miner, captured and tortured near Culican for reporting thefts by bandits, March 27, 1912. HAMBLETON, JAMES W., attacked and wounded at Parral after being compelled to pay $6,000 to save his life. RUTHERFORD. FOREST, assistant superintendent Copper Queen Smel ter Company, wounded when rebels shot across border at Douglas, Ariz., April, 1911. ARMSTRONG, BEN, wounded at | Douglas, April, 1911. DICKSON, A. R., wounded at Doug las, April 13. 1911. LENNON. CARLOS. wounded at Douglas, April £3, 1911. COLE, GENEVIEVE, shot in her home at Douglas by Mexicans, April 13, 1911. SOUTHERLAND, SIDNEY, reporter for The Mexican Herald, shot in leg when General Felix Diaz was bom barding the city. LASAN, THOMAS, wounded at the same time and manner as Souther land. GREENFIELD, MRS., struck by shell during the bombardment. M’CRESSON, DR. R. FT.. Lincoln, Nebr., finger shot off during the ten days’ battle. JOHNSON. MARK, Madison, Wis., shot through shoulder in Mexico City battle. RAMSEY, F. L.. Galveston. Texas, shot by stray bullet during bom bardment. BLAND, ALLIS, printer, hit by stray bullet in Mexico City. MARSH. , beaten by bandits near Yago on April 9. HOPKINS. A. A., Deputy United States Marsha! shot in knee while enforcing neutrality law's at Naco, Ariz.. March 15. CHARLOT, ROBERT, wounded whi’e watching battle across the border from Naco. Ariz., March 24. PARKS, JOHN, ear cut off by bandit. VON BRANDIS. CARLOS, mining engineer, shot at Durango, June 18, by rebels. STEPP, H. W., shot through leg at Durango. June 18, by rebels. GILMORE. SILAS F., struck by three bullets during the bombardment jf Mexico City In February. band, an American rancher, at their hom* near Sanburn. north of Santa ROBERTS TOED, .wounded duringretura“to““hu“native co'untrT''whirh 1 .nrrNtlM until Mr Sim v muH tVia* th„ ...... Lucretia, until Mr. Shay paid the bandits $800. ROMNEY. MRS. MILES A., wife of an American farmer—Illtreated by twelve rebels at her home near Co lonia. south of Juarez, on October 3, 1*12. She was rescued by Fed eral troops. GOURD, Miss, 17 years old—Treated BAGGY, MRS. D, L*.—Rob boa ot the bombardment. ROBERTS. MISS BERTHA, daughter of Fred, wounded during bombard ment. DM FLEET, ALLEN A., private Troop G, Fifth Cavalry, U. S. A., seriously wounded by a rebel bullet while patroling border at Nogales Aria, wii Mai ch iJ, jails, and when the jail supply failed all sorts of expedients were used to arrest new victims. One jefe politico under Diaz in his latter days was notified by an offi cial of the army that his district was short in its quota of enlisted men. The jefe replied that the peons in his district absolutely refused to commit any breach of order warranting their arrest and a sentence to a term in the army. He was sternly notified that he must furnish 100 men within 48 hours or hand in his resignation. The jefe politico returned to hts quiet village in deep distress. The peon inhabitants were so apprehen sive of arrest that they hardly ven tured out of doors. The jefe had an inspiration. Peons Throng to Bonfire. That evening his subordinates col lected the materials for a hufce bon fire near the plaza. When it was dark the pile was lighted. The fire bells sounded the alarm. Fires are rare and a gTeat treat to the peons in towns built mainly of adobe and other non-combustible materials. The mounting blaze lit u * the vil lage. The church bells increased their clamor. The unsuspecting peons rushed to the plaza, danced joyously about the fire, but their ardor was cheeked when the soldiers of the jefe politico descended on them and ar rested 120 of their number. On the following morning a right eous judge convicted them of the crime of disorderly’ conduct and sen tenced each and all of them to serve five years in the regular army. Soldier’s Lot a Little Better. Once in the army.a private can ob tain release only by desertion or death. Poor as is the original mate rial it has been posisble by years of training to whip much of it into shape, and the lot of the average peon is better in the army than elsewhere. This army of 60,000 men was well equipped with modern weapons and all of the military accessories re quired in waging campaigns against revolutionary and bandit forces. Tne officers had had years of experience under Diaz. The problem ahead of this army was to suppress the "revolutionary’ forces under Orozco, Zapata and the lesser military adventurers and open brigands. The total armed strength of all of these forces was less than 15,000 men, most of them poorly armed and inadequately financed. Ten thousand American troops could have stamped out the last embers of revolt and brigandage in two months, and the pick of the same number of Madero’s army probably could have accomplished the same results save for one reason—graft. Fight Only for Money. "I have 60.000 men,” Madero said sadly,, "but what do they fight for? Money. They care not for whom they fight so long as they are paid.” This revolting farce had its fitting | climax when Felix Diaz was released by traitors and began his fight against Madero in Mexico City. Had the officers of the army been loyaj to Madero, they could have batters! down the arsenal and captured and executed Diaz within 24 hours. If the United States consents to keep Its hands off Mexico and can persuade the great foreign powers to do the same, it will be an easv matter to write the history of Mexico in ad vance for the next generation. Huerta will eventually be overthrown by Car ranza or some other aggressive "rev olutionist." Rebels Will Levy Tribute. Zapata, Salazar, Salgado, Oritz, Sanchez, Samano and other unsuc cessful aspirants for the presidential chair will decline to recognize the new government, and will continue to oc cupy their districts and levy tribute on such foolish Americans, Germans, English and other foreigners who dare to remain in the hope of saving the wrecks of their properties. • Huerta will be permitted to escape abroad with what he can cash In. Carranza will try to float a new loai. and, if successful, most of it will be absorbed by his army favorites in their comic opera warfare against the old favorite revolutionists" and such new candidates as ill make a bid for popular support. Lawlessness Will Spread. The contagion of anarchy wil! spread to all parts of Central Amer ica, and the wonderfully rich section between the Rio Grande and the Pan ama Canal will be given over to un restricted lawlessness. The last guilty American will take a last lingering look at the ashes of his criminal Mexican possessions and pines. No other foreign post under the government calls for higher qualities of character and capacity, executive skill and experience than that of Governor of eight million Filipinos. What are these simple, saddle-colored souls to think and say when we offer Mr. Harrison as the American Exhibit A? Where there should be foree we give them weakness. Where there should be courage we give them timidity. Where there should be intelli gence we give them mediocrity. Where there should be indepen dence we give them a hand-picked product of the Tammany ma chine. Where there should be a man of iniative and sagacity we give them a merest messenger boy of money. Who and what is Mr. Harrison! Bom in New York, he grew up to ask and obtain admission to the bar. More familiar with I drawing rooms than courthouses, he has been eminently the sort of lawyer of whom, when they fall ill or leave town, the papers chron icle the interruption to their social engagements without saying anything about their practice. Tammany usually sends to Congress either obedient dummies , or very rich men. Mr. Harrison has been both. A young lawyer, without many clients, but excellent cotillion qualities and fine Virginia family, he married the California heiress, Miss Crocker, who dowered him with great wealth. He became a generous campaign contributor. Tammany loves gold and sent him to Congress. By mere lapse of time he has become second to Underwood in seniority on the Ways and Means Committee. Mitchell Palmer, of Pennsylvania, the President’s friend, is third. There is talk of sending Underwood to the Senate, which would make Harrison next in line for the leader ship of the House. Is President Wilson sending him to the Philip pines to save the House or to remove one obstacle in Mitchell Palm er’s path? This would explain the appointment. It would be al together laughable if it were not altogether lamentable. President Wilson is supposed not to like Boss Murphy and Tammany Hall. His Philippine preference for Mr. Harrison in no wise supports this assumption. Since he took oath as a Represen tative, Mr. Harrison has been docile to the Murphy order—tame to the Murphy touch. When in 1909 the House was in rebellion against the tyranny of Speaker Cannon, Boss Murphy—for a consideration—came to , the rescue of that threatened despot. Boss Murphy “ordered” Mr. Harrison to desert the Democrats and run to the aid and comfort of the common enemy. Mr. Harrison ran. Thus do bosses vote their dummies in aid of the criminal Standard Oil or Sugar or Tobacco. Not poltitcs, but bib business, rules when criminal privilege is to be saved. Mr. Harrison was eagerly willing. He turned traitor at a Murphy nod, and, abandoning his post as a doorkeeper in the House of the Lord, raced across to the tents of the ungodly. Mr. Harrison’s vote against Democratic principles was and is the only act to lift its head above the dead and desert level of his House career. If one except his being barred from the White House by the particular Mr. Taft, that Cannon vote constitutes Mr. Harrison’s entire Congressional record. What powers, working through Mr. Wilson, have secured this senseless promotion of Mr. Harrison? No question in a decade has so wrung the withers of political Washington. The public wasn’t clamoring for it. No Philippine interest asked it. Why, then, was so much weakness required at the head of Filipino affairs. True, the Philippines are a sugar preserve, just as they’re a fa vorite hunting ground of tobacco. Also, the robbers,'for obvious causes, prefer the Polled Angus breed of governor. Was it a to bacco hint or a sugar hunch that has so boosted Mr. Harrison? As against this come others who declare that the bug beneath the chip of the Harrison appointment is a hug, not of tariff, but of social hue. They whisper of blue room, red room reasons, and in form one that, having in view the gentleman’s feelings, Mr. Har- rison is sent to Manila only to get him out of Washington. To put an end to this conflict of harrowing surmise, Mr. Wil son should take mankind into his confidence and give in full his Filipino reasons for the Harrison hopes within him. A White House silence at this crisis would be unfair to sugar, tobacco, the railroads, the Filipinos, Mr. Underwood, Mr. Palmer, Mr. Harrison • and society—to say nothing of the public at large. loves peace so well that it shuts its eyes and closes its t ears to the mur derous strife across the Texas border. Just why we should restrain Cuba from indulging; in a similar bent is a matter I can not fathom, unless it be that our advocates of peace at any price are not afraid of Cuba and are in deadly terror of Mexico. 1 ifiifWv Rich’s Economy Basement ~ - Satin Evening SI ip p e r s $3.50 values, $1.95. Mail orders given careful attention. Over 500 pairs of fresh, new stock received Saturday. All sizes and widths. \ Beautiful rose Pompon to match color. Cuban heels, as pictured above, in black, white, pink, blue and red. Misses’ low heels in black, white, pink and blue. t > I l Rich’s Economy Basement ^