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Editorial and
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Editorial and
Magazine Section
Wednesday, May Fifth, 1915.
DEDICATED TO THE SERVICE OF THE PEOPLE, THAT NO GOOD CAUSE SHALL LACK A CHAMPION, AND THAT EVIL SHALL NOT THRIVE UNOPPOSED.
.HERALD
50 YEARS AGO
(BYH.D.S.)
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IOW HISTORY REPEATS IN MEXICOHOW IT LOOKED 40 AND
ON CINCO DE MAYO it is timely to recall some
things connected with the French intervention in
Mexico. The Ei Paso Herald happens to have
in its files some very interesting clippings from news
papers of the '60's and 70's relating to the Mexican
situation. Some of the comments are so pat in relation
to present day conditions that they are worth repro
ducing at this time.
Most of the extracts are from the New York Tribune,
but there are others whose source cannot be determined
though the dates are given.
The Propagateur Catholique (Paris) of March 26,
1&61, says In part:
The Mexican demagogs continue to distinguish
i e mselves. after the fashion of modern liberalism, ty
expending their courage on priests and women. The
Uexican Journal, (official) contains the following
j i em: "Yesterday, the removal of certain religious
1 idies into other houses took place, in accordance with
the superior orders of the government, and in con
formity with the law which declares church property
'i belong to the nation. Nine convents are still occu
pied, and 13 are stripped and ready to be sold."
The revolutionary p-ocess has been quite summary.
The effects which are called church property, as this
lournal tells us, are declared to belong to the nation.
They are taken in the name of the government and
sold for the profit of the nation, represented by the
inn of Juarez. Lerdo and Co. What a pity that the
poor heros, imprisoned for appropriating boots and
pantaloons, had not thought of first declaring them
national property. Instead of being put under bolts,
they might then have obtained a civic crown, and.
instead of being called 'hieves. might have figured
among the saviours of their country.
Everything was done in the most secret manner, to
prevent a rising of the people. But, contrary to the
declarations of this journal, it is equally true that the
removal of these religious ladies, at an unexpected
hour of the night, was accomplished in a most revolt
ing and brutal manner.
In the meantime, public and private affairs are in
equal confusion. Commerce, agriculture and industry
ixe destroyed. The reign of the revolutionists cannot
last long. But. unfortunately, it takes but a little
ume to destroy, and, after this scourge shall have
passed over Mexico and disappeared, nothing will be
found In its desolate track but moral and material
ruins.
From the-Revue des Deuz Mondes (Paris) of Novem
ber 28, 1863, we take the following paragraphs:
Our government, from the very commencement of
the American civil war, has evinced a regrettable
partiality for the Secessionists. Nobody can possibly
have misinterpreted the tendencies of the project of
mediation which we submitted to England and Russia,
nor of the proposal of an armistice which jve tendered
directly to the government at 'Washington. This char
acter of partiality has been the more striking because
our position and our conduct, compared with England,
presented the most surprising contrast. England suf
fered infintely more than we did in its cotton industry
hy the closing of the southern ports; England has an
evident political interest in the dissolution of the
mencan union; the English nation, by its traditions,
by its interests, by its popular sentiments has a ten
dency for the south, and against the north in this
strife. Well the English government has scrupu
lously avoided any act which might have led It to an
intervention between the belligerents, and to a war
against the north.
In France the aspect of things is the very opposite.
The .civil war did not produce anvthing like the suf
ferings caused in England; the upholding of the in
tegral republic of the United States is a cardinal point
of our traditional policy; that republic we assisted in
constructing; we drew from it the first inspirations of
our revolution; the existence of this republic is neces
sary to maintain the maritime equilibrium so favor
able to us; finally, as a nation, all our sympathies are
with the Amerieans; no really independent and spon
taneous opinion has ever desired the destruction of the
union; independent organs of public opinion have
unanimously deprecated whatever could cause the dis
memberment of the United States as an attaii..2er upon
the interests of France. Notwithstanding all this, our
government, in spite of the natural tendencies of our
traditions and of public opinion, has not had the
prudence to discard or to dissimulate its unfavorable
ideas toward the American republic The extreme
peril of this manifest partiality consists In its connec
tion with the results which naturally follow, unless
great precaution is observed, out of our Mexican
affairs.
In endeavoring to establish an empire in Mexico,
it Is unfortunately but too evident that we create
gratuitously an antagonism between American patriot
ism and France. The civil wa- it far from being ended
in America, and should. It seems, give us the necessary
time for establishing the basis of the new Mexican
government. Once the civil war brought to a close,
the dangers of our enterprise are self-evident, par
ticularly if peace Is near at band. The passions of
the American people would turn toward Mexico instead
of Canada.
A dangerous and laborious antagonism with the
United States such is the prospect opened to us by
the expedition to Mexico. The auestion now arises,
whether we shall provoke it at once by recognizing
the Confederate states, proffering a war with the
T.nited States a cruel war where victory even, would
be fatal to us. as it would destroy one of the creations
of the French policy, the strongest, the most useful
to our country; or whether we ought not to take
refuge in the future in order to gain time to leave
Mexico before the outbreak of this antagonism.
The New York Tribune of August 31, 1863, thus
comments on the situation:
There Is not an American who has the slightest ap
prehension that Mexico will remain permanently, or
for any considerable time, under French protection, or
who believes that Maximilian will ever gain there
anything but a throne of cards that will fall at a
breath. The idea of a Mexican imperial dynasty Is too
absurd to excite the least concern. Americana regard
all these doings as a mere scenic performance and
Forey, Almonte, Maximilian and all the rest of them
but "poor plavers, that strut and fret their hour upon
the stage." They are well enough content that the
thing should go on for the present.
So far as Mexico is concerned it don't seem to mat
ter much whether French rule, or Austrian rule, or
no rule prevails. It is simply the difference between
paralysis and convulsions. Mexico was utterly
wretched under her socalled republic, and she can
hardly be more so now.
It has long been a conclusion among Americans that
the only final deliverance ol that country from its
misery lies in its attachment to the grand republic
The only real question has been that of time whether
it should be a hundred years hence, or 50. or 18. The
prevailing and the Just opinion has been, and still is.
that there should be long delay.
Within the last 16 years we have absorbed more
than half of the original Mexican territory, and we
now have quite as much as we can well take care of.
Beside, the settlement of our affairs at home, made
necessary by domestic treason, ought for the pres
ent to engage our whole attention. The time has not
come for us to take this case of Mexico in hand. We
can wait confidently, and therefore, quietly.
Under date of May 25, 1864, the Tribune says:
The embarkation of the archduke Maximilian, or,
as our European cotemporarles now call him, the
emperor Maximilian I. for the New World, has at
length put a stop to all speculation as to whether he
would or would not accept the offered crown.
Announcements of the policy which Maximilian
means to pursue have preceded him. He promises not
to follow the example of king Bomba of Naples and
king William I of Prussia, in opposing to the liberal
aspirations of the people nothing but brute force. lie
proposes, on the contrary, to follow yie example of
his fatherinlaw, the king of Belgium, of Louis
Napoleon, and his brother the emperor of Austria,
and, in preference to a display of force, to study the
efficacy of bland words, of liberal promises, and the
development of the natural resources of the country.
We doubt not that he will make the utmost efforts :o
conciliate the Mexicans, and to make them forget by
what unparalleled perjury and violation of all inter
national laws the way was prepared for a Mexican
monarchy. It has already been officially announced
that the project of building a railroad across the
Isthmus of Tehuantepec will be at once resumed:
that the beginning of organizing a Mexican navy has
been made with the purchase of several steamers in
A Promise Is Something Tkat Is Harder To Keep
i kar tresh Milk During a Summer TkuDclerstorm
Europe; that new companies have been formed for
making the mineral wealth of the country more
available than before.
The intention of France has long ceased to be a
secret. They are, however, now announced by the
agents of the government with a frankness and ex
plicitness. which is highly interesting and instructive.
Thus we find some curious statements in a speech
made in the French legislative JOdy on the S-th of
May by Dr. Dalloz, an ardent champion of the policy
of the government. The prospects and interests of the
commerce of France, as well as of all Europe, were
endangered by the growing Influence of the United
States upon the American continent. Juarez had
always been "anti-European." and had always en
ueavored to "substitute the influence of the United
States for that of Eurone." The interests of the entire
European commerce required, therefore, the overthrow
of the rule of Juarez, and such a change in the
Mexican government as would promise permanent
protection and encouragement of European commerce
If Maximilian should be able to maintain himself
for some time in Mexico, we must expect that the ut
most efforts will be made to turn the Mexican trade
into European instead of American channels.
Our latest advices from Mexico itself give us the
gratifying assurance that the national government
is not losing ground, but appears, on the contrary, to
gain in strength. The armies in northern Mexico
under Doblado and Ortega, and those in the south
western states under Diaz and Uraga. show no inten
tion of abandoning the cause of the Mexican republic,
and the recent announcement of the Paris Monlteur.
that Juarez had fled the country, his army disbanded,
and only a few scattered guerillas remain, was a glar
ing untruth.
Maximilian, on his arrival in Mexico, will un
doubtedly soon learn that the opposition to the empire
is still much stronger than was represented to him
by the Mexican reactionists and the French govern
ment, and that he has not been bidden to a bed of
roses.
September 17, 1865, the Mexico correspondent of the
New York Tribune writes:
The fortnight just elapsed has been, in more than
one way, exceedingly favorable to the imperial cause.
The government of Maximilian has accomplished in
this short space of time what, at first sight, looked
like the task of several years. It has compelled the
government of Juarez to leave in a hurry the long
belt of states watered by the Pacific ocean. The em
peror has obtained from most of the Indian tribes
located in these immense regions unmistakable demon
strations of friendship, and beaten, with the simple
assistance of these tribes, the Juarist generals In
whose hands the ex-president had intrusted his for
tune. The government, by compelling Juarez to seek
a refuge a few miles from the Texas coast. Implicitly
compelled him to confess that he was unable to main
tain himself in the interior, and that the hospitable
shores of the great American republic of the United
States might one day or another become indispensable
to his safety.
When the history of this war will be written It will
be easy to perceive by a single glance at the state of
the country, and of the population, that the establish
ment of the empire was not, as some people imagine,
the introduction by violence of a foreign government,
but the deliverance of a nation which, during the last
generation, endured all the evils that could possibly
afflict a people. Take the Indians, for instance, who
form the bulk of the population of Mexico. Impressed
by the various leaders who were competing for the
ascendancy, robbed of the little they had. shot If they
resisted, they possessed no resources whatever against
this odious oppression, and left the ranks when they
could to fly into the woods. With the empire things
are not carried on in such a way.
The poor Indian begins to feel relieved from the
yoke and to seek for his rights. The reputation Maxi
milian has gained among the indian tribes is pro
digious. They send delegates from all parts of the
country to swear allegiance to him, and to demand his
protection. Thug the Mayos and the Opatas in Sonora.
the Otomls of New Galicia. the Tarasques of Mtcho
acan. the Tolteques and the Aztecs of the table land
of Anahuac. and other tribes whose names I forget,
have, during the last three months, declared them
selves for the emperor, and have enlisted willingly for
the purpose of driving the guerrillas out of the coun
try. As a whole, military operations are so advan
tageous to the empire, prospects of pacification are
so good, the confidence of the people is so entire, that
public works are pushed on with great activity in
those parts of the country where their establishment
may seem to develop agriculture, industry and com
merce. The Imperial troops occupy Urea, whose inhabi
tants have proclaimed their adherence to the emoeror.
In Chihuahua military operations have also been
very favorable to the imperialists. In IS days the
column of Gen. Brincourt has succeeded in crossing
the state and in routing all the troops who attempted
to oppose his march. Notwithstanding their usual
bombast, all the Juarists have fled on the approach
of the French. On the 15th of August Gen. Brincourt
entered Chihuahua, whose population, oppressed by
the Juarists for so long a time, received the Imperial
ists as deliverers.
In a banquet offered to the emperor the bishon of
Tulamingo drank to the prosperity of the empire and
the health of its sovereign, ana to tne health of the
empress Carlota.
The Matamoras (Tex.) Monitor of September 16,
1865, says:
Fasqueira. the Liberal governor of Sonora. has
been deserted by all except 26 men, and has written
to the French commander that be would leave; deem
ing the Juarez cause hopeless. The confedera'e gen
erals who had accepted service under Maximilian were
ordered to report at a certain town, but many of them
had previously gone to the Pacific coast en route to
Brazil, or some other country.
Dr. Gwin had an understanding with the emperor
Napoleon in relation to the colonization of Sonora.
but Maximilian failed to countenance the scheme;
which was consequently abandoned by Gwin, who
then returned to the United States:
An item of direct and startling importance in view
of the methods of the present administration at Wash
ington in dealing direct with different factions of revo
lutionists is contained in a dispatch by William H.
Seward, secretary of state, to minister Dayton at Paris,
in which the secretary says:
If the archduke Maximilian appear in Paris only
in his character as an imperial prince of the house
of Hapsburg, you will be expected to be neither
demonstrative nor reserved in your deportment toward
him. If he appearr there with snv assumption of
authority or title in Mexico, you will entirely refrain
frvn intercourse with him. Wo acknowledge revolu
tion only by direction of the president, upon full and
mature consideration. Until such regular authority
for recognition, we do not hold formal or informal
communications with political agents or representa
tives of revolutionary movements in countries with
which we maintain diplomatic Intercourse.
In another dispatch to minister Dayton, secretary
Seward thus sets forth the American policy, directly
and briefly:
Events which have recently occurred in the eastern
section of that country, if they are correctly reported,
show that the Mexican national authorities are not
likely to be immediately suppressed. It is. of course,
not impossible that new embarrassments for this
government may grow out of the archduke's assump
tion of authority In Mexico. But we shall do all that
prudence, justice and honor require to avert them, at
the same time we shall not forego the assertion of
any of our national rights.
If such precautions fail to secure us against ag
gression, we shall then. I trust, be able to rise, with
out great effort, to the new duties which, in that case,
will have devolved upon us. I remain now firm, as
heretofore, in the opinion that the destinies of the
American continent are not to be permanently con
trol ed by any poit ileal arrangements that can be made
in the capitals of Europe. I am. sir. your obedient
servant.
In a dispatch to the minister of France at Washing
ton under date of April 6, 1864, Mr. Seward demon
strates the unfailing and unswerving support whkh the
Washington government gave to the Jaarez government
in the crisis; says Mr. Seward:
This government has long re agnized, and still does
continue to recognize, the constitutional government
of the United States of Mexico as the sovereign
authority in that country, and the president. Benito
Juarez, as its chief. This government at the same
time, equally recognizes the condition of war existing
in Mexico, between that country and France. We
maintain absolute neutrality.between the belligerents.
and we do not assume to judge, much less to judge in
advance of the effect of the war upon titles or estates.
With the events culminating in the battle of PuebU
and the downfall of Maximilian, everyone is familiar.
We pass along to 1872, nader the rale of president
Juarez. Under date of February 24, 1872, the Nev
York Tribune says editorially:
The term revolution has ceased to convey an inte
Iidble idea of the social and polrtieal disorders that
once more prevail In Mexico. Anarchy of the worst
type Involving crimes that we are wont to ascribe to
savage life is the only word that expresses the hoi -
rible condition of that beautiful country, which our
sympathies, rather than our judgment, dignify wi'a
the sounding title of a "sister Republic"
The recent election, by which Juarez was retained
in office, it was hoped, would give quiet to the dis
tracted country. But the election itself revealed -.n-depths
of the discord which existed In every part of
Mexico. The spirit of insubordination was rife in th
cities, and had demoralized the provinces. The in-riguis
of selfish ambition, and the jealousies and hatreds that
were engendered out of contemptible partizan strug
gles, prepared the way for a serious opposition to th--Juarez
government.
Himself born, cradled, and nurtured in revolutio
he could not escape the envy of other adventurer
Notorious for his treachery and bad faith, he coul 1
Inspire no confidence in those to whom he was com
pelled to entrust both civil and military authont
Even those who nominally adhere to Juarez, a"
justly suspected of treachery. There is no cooper-i-tion
among them for the common weal. Each disaster
brings with it criminatory charges against the officers
in command, and each leader seems to have no oth r
object at heart than the gratification of personal
vanity, or of some meaner and more sordid ambition
It is almost impossible to imagine how the count r
can be rescued from the prevalent, social, and political
anarchy. The present condition of affairs is not a
whit better than it was in 1S70. when Juarez appealed
to congress to be invested with the power of sus
pending the writ of habeas corpus.
Juarez, in 1858, waa proclaimed at Veracruz con
stitutional president of Mexico. The fires of civil war
were enkindled through the whole extent of the conn
try. While Miramon, Zuloaga. and Degollado were
rivaling one another in atrocities at Mexico. Juarez
was strengthening his tyranny at Veracruz. One of his
first arbitrary acts, was to confiscate the property
of the Catholic church, and appropriate its revenues
to his own use. Juarez assumed the offensive: and
after two years, marked by adventures and crimes, he
entered the city of Mexico in triumph. In a few
months, he caused himself to be proclaimed dictator
The acta of his administration were so outrageous
that thev eventually caused a disruption of diplo
matic relation between Mexico and the governments
of Spain. France, and England
The emperor Maximilian assumed the reins of gov
ernment, and entered at once upon extended plans for
the improvement of the country. But ultimately be
trayed by the Mexican generals, he was taken cap
tive; and. in spite of appeals from the United States
and other governments, he was ruthlessly murdered
by command of Juarez. This occurred nearly five years
ago. Since that time Juarez has exercised supreme
power over Mexican affairs.
He has utterly failed to unite the people or control
the officers to whom he owed his success. Disaffec
tion, treachery, and the selfishness of vulgar am
bition, invaded again, as it had often before invaded.
the Mexican army.
The whole country is convulsed with an internecine
warfare, disgraceful to the civilization of the age. The
northern and western provinces have been wrested
from the support of Juarez. The people are leaving
the country to escape conscription: and the terrorism
of predatory bands prevails everywhere.
Life and property find neither protection nor se
curity. Law and order have- been swallowed up in a
chaos of anarchy The future hopes of Juarez lie in
the want or unity among the military chieftains who
are arrayed against him. His overthrow is probable,
but its accomplishment will not bring peace to the
distracted country; for the generals who will accom
plish it. are not actuated by any higher motive than
selfish ambition.
The present is. therefore, full of terror for unfor
tunate Mexico; and the future is dark and hopeless.
All that was 43 years ago. It is a sad chronicle.
It seems almost Hke a voice oat of the clouds, in this
present instant, to read saca a viva description of
conditions that are repeating themselves in the dis
tracted country beyond the Rio Grande.
A PROMISE is something that Is
harder to keep than fresh milk
in a thunderstorm.
Promises do not spoil, like milk, how
.er. They break. A butterfly's wing
is a tough and durable affair beside a
premise. A man who can break 10
slass balls in succession is proud of the
record, but many a statesman has
broken 11,00a promises the first week
in office without any effort either.
Promises are legal tender for all
kinds of favors and goods, but they are
jiol guaranteed by the government, and
are very precarious security. Some men
turn out an extraordinary high grade
C promises which will be redeemed
over the counter without question at
any time Other men issue promises
faster than a wildcat investment com
pany can turn out bonds, and when the
proud holder of one of these promises
attempts to casn it ne discovers mat j
11 lO LUULGUGIAIC 4UW11CJ.
There are two kinds of business
which are carried on almost entirely by
promises love and politics. When a
man is In love he thanks kindly Provi
dence for inventing the promise It is
nothing- for a young man to give a
BY GEORGE FITCH.
young woman a beautiful home, a pri
vate yacht, a limousine, a vacation In
Europe, flowers every day until she dies
of old age. and unlimited torrents of
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All In promises.
affection all in promises in a single
evening. And It is nothing for the same
young woman, two years after mar
riage, to spend three hours trying to
trade all of these promises for SL2 in
United States money in order to buy
a new hat and spend the balance on
enervating luxuries.
The candidate is even more talented
on putting out vast issues of very at
tractive promises. Many a voter has
got up early and has run all the way
to the polls to lielj elect a noble char
acter who has promised to enforce the
laws, uplift the administration, reduce
taxes, increase prosperity, double crop
returns, protect the public health, in
crease the number of potatoes In a
bushel, make the street car company
call for its customers, and prolong the
life of shoes. But -ater he finds that
these promises cannot be fulfilled, ow
ing to the overworked necessities by
satisfying Bill, Mike, Steve. Hank, Tom.
and 876 other citizens, each of whom
holds a promise good for one public
Job.
People should be as careful in accept
ing promises as they are in taking
nntas Th.r .hnnlit at.n .aAttn4 th.
'nearest information bureau and look
up the promissory ability to pay.
Bedtime Story For tlie Little O
nes
"Uncle Wiggily and the Scarecrow.'
By HOWARD B. GARIS.
ONE DAT, when Uncle Wiggily
Longears, the rabbit gentle
man, was calling on his friend,
(Grandfather Goosey Gander, with
whom he often played Scotch checkers,
the goose gentleman gave a sorrowful
quack and said:
"Oh, dear!"
"Why. what in the world is the mat
ter?" Uncle Wiggily asked. "You seem
very sad."
"I am." answered Grandpa Goosey.
"What about?"Uncle Wiggily wanted
to know "I noticed you were a little
hoarse when you quacked just now. I
hope you are not getting the epizootic"
"So, it isn't that," went on Grandpa
Goosey. "The watercress medicine
which Dr. Possum gave me the day
jou and the wild goose had the acci
dent in your airship cured me of the
epizootic"
"Then what is your trouble?" asked
l'ncle Wiggily. "Perhaps I can help
ou."
"I fear not," replied Grandfather
Goosey Gander, speaking proper-like.
as they do in story books. "Xou see
I have planted a nice field of com. so
I will have plenty of meal this winter.
but the crows are pulling it up."
"Pulling what up?" asked Uncle
Wiggily. "the . eal?"
"No. the green growing corn that
later I intended to have ground up Into
meal," went on the goose gentleman.
"As soon as the tender green stalks of
corn sprout up from the eround. along
come the black caw-caw crows and pull
up the sprouts and the corn kernel,
too. I don't know what to do!"
"Ha! But I do!" exclaimed Uncle
Wiggily, whose pink nose was twink
ling like a firecracker Just before it
bursts. "I can help you," said the
rabbit gentleman, as he scratched his
left ear with his tail.
"How?" asked Grandfather Goosey
Gander. "How can you help nor
"By putting a scarecrow in your
cornfield."
"What is a scarecrow?" the goose
gentleman mouired.
"Its an old coat and a pair of
trousers and a hat, stuffed with straw
and rags, and nailed on a polo in the
niKiaie or a Held or corn, wen on
Uncle Wiggily. "It's the scary sort
of image of a make-believe man. The
crows really think it is a man and
they let the corn alone."
"Good!" quacked Grandfather Goosey.
Poor Old John
JOHN BARLEYCORN, the swaggering, just now is badly staggering beneath
repeated blows; for kings say, "He is ruinous dodgast the stuff he's brew
in' us," and biff him on the nose. The kings, alert and vigorous, are taking
measures rigorous, to swat old John again; "He's worse than guns and sabers
are," remark the kings, "his labors are addressed to downing men. Out where
our flags are shimmering the bottle must go glimmering, it makes the soldiers
rude; it spoils the ardent warrior, and nothing could be sorrier than fighting
man half stewed." Thus speak the Lord's anointed ones, and they are the ap
pointed ones their people's weal to guard; fhey see that John, the lecherous, is
virions, mean and treacherous, and so they soak him hard. And if, in Europe's
villages, old John, who slays and pillages, runs up against a frost, the war,
with all its slaughtering, that leaves the nations tottering, is well worth what
it cost.
CCoryright by George M Adams.)
WALT MASON.
"I don't suppose the crows mean any
harm." he went on. "but still I don't
want them to eat all my corn. I
wouldn't mind if they only took a little
Make me a scraecrow, Uncle Wiggily,
and we shall see what happens."
So the rabbit genjeman took an old
coat and a pair of trousers with holes
in them, which didnt matter. Vhese
garments Uncle Wiggily stuffed with
straw. Then he stuck them uo on a
pole, with the arms of the coat stick
ing straight out, one on either side,
and with the straw hat on ton of a
make-believe head. On a white niece
( of cloth Uncle Wiggily drew a nose a
mouin ana tnree eyes.
"I'll mauke the scarecrow look like a
raggedity three-eyed man." said the
rabbit gentleman, "and the crows will
be so surprised they won't know what
to do."
"When the scarecrow was stuck up in
the field it did look very much like a
raggedity tramp man. And. for a time,
the crows did not come near Grand
father Goosey Gander's corn. The big
black birds would fly around, crying;
"Caw! Caw! Caw!" It was Just as
though they said. "Haw! Haw! Haw!
What does this mean? Who is that
man down In our cornfield?"
But after a while one very wise
named jimmie alter Jimmie Wlbble
wobble, the duck boy, I suppose after
a while Jimmie Caw-Caw, the crow,
said:
"Ha! That isn't a real man at alL m
friends! I have watched him for three
days, and he never moves. lie just
stands still, and no man can do that
so long. We need not be afraid Let
us fly down and get all the corn we
want."
"All right!" cawed the other crows.
"Haw! Haw! Haw!"
Down they flew, flapping their black
wings, and with their beaks they began
pulling up the corn worse than ever.
Grandfather Goosey saw them.
"Oh, Uncle Wiggily!" sadly said the
goose gentleman, "your scare-crow m
of no use. The crows are not afraid
of it any more"
"Is that so?" asked Uncle Wiorc-ilv
"Ha! I must look into this and see what
the trouble Is."
So Uncle Wiggily hid in a hollow
stump near the corn field to watch. He
saw the crows come flocking down,
and, surely enough they did not mind
the scary figure of the stuffed man at
alL They even perched on his head
and outstretched arms.
"Ha' This will never do."' thought I
Uncle Wiggily "But I know hat I
can do, I will drese myself up as a. j
J scarecrow. If I could make myself
look like a rag doll, surely I can make
myself look like a scarecrow. Then ril
show those crows a surprise.
Early the next morning, before the
crows were at the corn field. Uncle
Wiggily went softly from his hol
low stump bungalow. He took the
straw out of the scarecrow, and got
inside the raggedy clothes himself.
Then he waited.
Soon along came the black, cawing
crows.
"Oh. we're not afraid of -wnn" atIa
I Jimmie. whose last name was Caw-
uaw. -lou're only stuffed!"
With that he flew toward the figure
In the cornfield But Uncle Wiggily
i iusiue me scarecrow, and, all of
I a sudden, before the crows could fly
; away, the rabbit gentleman jumped
i out, and with a bird cage he had
I brought with him. he caught Jimmie
J Caw-Caw fast inside.
"Ha! Ha!" laughed Uncle Wiggily.
"You thought the scarecrow was
stuffed, did you? Well, it was stuffed
with me!"
"Oh dear! Oh dear." cried all the
other crows. "Haw! Haw! Haw! Caw!
Caw! Caw!" And they all flew away
all except Jimmie, and he was caught
in Uncle Wiggllys bird cage.
"Caw! Caw!" mournfully said Jim
mie. flapping his wings dismally.
"What are you going to do with me.
Uncle Wiggily?"
"I don't know Just yet," replied the
rabbit gentleman. -'But one thing is
sure, you mustn't take any more of
Grandna Goosey's corn."
-Ana wnat happened to the crow In
the bird cage I will tell you In the
next story, which will be about Uncle
Wiggily and Jimmie, Caw-Caw that-
I is it will if the peanuts don't jump
ivirc wiih me popcorn oaii and break
all their shells for the postman to
step on when he goes roller skating.
Copyright. -IIS, by McClure News
paper Syndicate.
Southerrj Commercial Congrees May Come Her
If El Pa9o Will Joir. It and Work For M
I
ABE MARTIN
F the chamber of commerce and
other business organizations in
the southwest will tain tfc smi.
inern Commercial congress. El Paso
stands a good chance of getting the
annual convention r.f that body in a
year or two," said Carl Hinton, secre
tary of the Silver City chamber of
commerce, who has Just returned from
the convention of the congress in Mus
kogee. Okla.
"George W. Perkins, who presided at
the convention last week, told me so
himself and I had similar assurances
from other members of the body. They
all seemed greatly interested in the
southwest and are anxious to meet
some year out in this section of the
country. The Southern Commercial
congress has members In JS states and
is one of the most powerful business
organizations in the country. It's
motto Is A Arrester MliiM thm,,k -
greater south. I am going to see If (
I can t get the chamber of commerce
In this section interested in the asso
ciation." j
"When a criminal is first arrested, i
he Is usuallv n mi.- o i..h '
pec1,J,J" jf he ls eausht quite unex
pectedly." said Shelly Bovee. United
states secret service agent in EI Paso.
, - W- " man is nrst taken I
into custody, the officers can photo-1
eetir.
graph him or get him to admit many
things which he would not if he had
his wits about him. But when he gets
his 'second courage. so to speak, he
is harder to handle than a fussy child.
He wants to see a lawyer right away
and will usually say nothing or do
nothing until his attorney is brought
to him. Many criminals have admitted
things when first arrested that they
flatly denied after they had thought
the situation over."
"Altogether too much has been said
and printed about the foot and mouth
disease," said J. H. Avery, chairman
of the state live stock sanitary board
when he was hero recently. "The less
that is said about the foot and mouth
disease, the better it will be for the
cattle industry in the state of Texas.
The danger is not yet past and we
have decided that it will be better to
continue the quarantine than risk
bringing the disease into these states.
New Mexico, Arizona and Texas have
maintained a rigid quarantine with the
result that the men of monev in the
east have the greatest of confidence
in the cattle industry here. Just look
at Kansas City. Their quarantine was
lax and money is now very titrht in
ti.at state. I have never seen better
conditions in Texas. Money is easy:
the grass was never better and the
stock is in fine condition; cattle are
shedding off good and all are tlfrift
There is no uneasiness among the
bankers as to the conditions here and
a cattleman can get all the money e
needs. Northern cattlemen who want
to ship bulls Into this state are mak
ing very strong efforts to have the
quarantine relaxed but if we once re
lax we will scare away the money and
there is no prospect of the quarantine
being raised in the near future. '
"The amount of interest demo
onstrated in the spelling contest heii
by representatives of the grade schools
was remarkable." said A. H Hurt.,
j "The interest was almost carried a
nine ioo iar as tne partisanship or
I e various schools was very kee:
i The contest was conducted after r
, style of the old fashioned spellm
j bees, in such contests the element o.
1 chance must plav a great part Th
only certain test of spelling abilit.
(would be in written examinations."
I
i "The exposition at San Francisco is
! wonderful ami every one who caa
j should try to see it for it ls undouo'
! edly worth the while," said Mrs. "
, L. Gaines.
1 "The foreign exhibits are not as ex
tensive as former expositions, hi,:
what is displayed Is very interestir-t;
The color nlan of the exposition ami
the lighting effects axe wonderfuL-
Letters to The Herald.
Boy wonders an rarely ever heard of
after they put on long trousers. It haint
no trouble t' come back if you've got a
Ford.
GIiFT IN MIJIHItnS VALLEY.
From Dealing (N. M. Graphic
Harry Whitehill has brought to
Deming several limbs from his peach
trees on the Mimbres, which are lit
erally eoered with pink rose btos-
somn The swnt nf th. hluime cn.ir.Dl
both the rose and the peach. The un- I
tivu-il om unation is the result of i
srauius. The trees bear no fruit.
TAI1 communications must bear th
signature of the writer, but the name
will be withheld If requested.
W1IRRE AIL IS TEACE.
Editor El Paso Herald:
El Paso is the place to make one
forget everything about Mexican poli
tics. There are two ex-mayors and
one exsecretary of Chihuahua doing all
SArts nf Knd.M. ti. .1 t
- .-s...w miii weir nuvaiy in
politics, Alberto Madero, and, by the i
way it looks, they are getting rich i
ery quick. j
John T. Casoca. I
14-year j ipo Today
Prom The nerald This Date 1ML
CniTICIiBS HBCLAJIATIOV SKIIVICE
Anthony. N. M-. May, 1, 115.
Editor El Paso Herald:
Every councilman of the Elephant
Butte Water Users association of New
Mexico, accredited to this end of the
valley, was in attendance at the regu
lar annual meeting of the board yes
terday in Las Cruces. After the elec
tion of officers of the association for
this year, the deadlock between the
United States Reclamation service and
the association was thoroughly dis
cussed and explained
While the action of the reclamation
service up the valley does not now af
fect this part of the valley, there was
no hesitancy on the part of the lower
end of the valley in taking an aetlve
part in the discussion and the form
ing and passing of resolutions sustain
ing the directors and the president in
their refusal to sanction the signing
of individual contracts which are be
ing forced onto the waters users of the
Leasburg diversion dam.
The councilmen from the lower end
of the Mesilla valley plainly see what
they will face if they do not support
the water users now in trouble. While
the present conditions are regretable
in the extreme, the fault in no manner
lies entirel) with the water users and
careful and unbiased investigation will
show that there is no doubt but that
the reclamation service, Mhich has en
ju d the confidence of the valle, has.
Aitting'i or unwittingly aroused a
spirit of suspicion that -Bill take a
l'-ng- time to alla
C A Thompson.
President McKlnley arrived here to
day and was received with great en
thusiasm. Because it was Sunday, no
program was held but the president
and his party will remain bre until
tomorrow, when the largest parade
ever planned by E. Pasoans will be
reieed by him. Gen. Hernandez,
personal representative of president
Diaz, is here to greet president Me
Kinle on behalf of the Mexican na
tion. The city is in gala attire. Hun
dreds, of flags are flying in the down
town district. Mrs. McKlnley is feel
ing much better than she has for some
days. The high altitude seems to have
done her good. Mexican bands will
serenade the president tonight, but
otherwise no entertainment has been
planned for him.
F. & Deal, of Tucson, arrived here
today.
F. T. Evans, of Alamogordo. Is
among the visitors in El Paso.
Harry Warner, of Lordsburg. N. M.,
is here on business and pleasure.
jnaries c .vmefieu. a cattleman of
Belleview Texas, is here on business
A. H Slaughter, well known ranch
nun of Alamogordo, is at the S:
Francis
E. n. Pirtle. a prominent real estau
operator of Los Angeles, ls a business
visitor here
Mr nd Mrs. R. D. Gibbs. of Sa
Francisco, are among the crowds o
visitors here.
Mr. and Mrs J N. Hansen ar
daughter, of Chihuahua, are here U i
the reception.
T. S. Lathrop came op from Guada
lupe. Chihuahua, to witness the pres -denttal
activities.
Mrs. D H. McMillan, of Las Vegas
is here for the celebration in honor
of president McKinley.
Geo. W. Schlacka. of Durango, left
his mining work long enough to conic
here for the president's reception.
Belvidere Brooks, general macage
of the western division of the Wester
Union Telegraph company, is in I '
Paso. He is former El Paso ma 1-
ager.
II.
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