Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1909-10-15 | Page 4 | Mexico's Tart Reply

TART REPLY One of the irreconcilable muckraking magazines of the United States recently began the publication of a series of articles tending tending to prove that a shocking condition of slavery exists In ih Mexico I Pictures are presented to prove the truth of the charges It must be said the pictures by no means support the text but they seem eem to be the best the muckraking author could produce Replying JO o the rather startling article the Mex Mexican ex ican lean Daily Dally Herald usually considered to speak with I authority from President Diaz himself declares that the author need not have gone so 50 far from home to find precisely the same system in operation It was not necessary f E im to risk his Is life lI fe as h he ays a s he i did to slavery of Yucatan when hen he I might have obtained a series of articles as aa sensa sensational sensational tion 1 and as subject ct to exaggeration by simply living a little while In the lumber camps of California and the northwest The Record admits that the labor contract system and the system of compelling labor laborers laborers ers in debt to stay with the Job are bad but it IS s contended that the laws of the United States State are ar arquite quite as stringent in these respects as those of Mex Mexico ico that for example a man in our own country in debt who attempts to leave the state without a set settlement settlement of his account can be arrested arrest d That the Yaqui Indians are sold by the Mexican government is held by b the Record editorial as no different in prin principle principle principle ciple from the system of convict contract labor In use in the state s ate of Georgia And if Mr Turner had visited any of the penitentiaries of the United States he would have found convicts convi ts working for the state or working for private contractors who had bad bought the privilege of working these slaves of the commonwealth And that seems to constitute a pretty prett good reply Gentlemen who start to set the th world right should go go with clean as well as individually And until all cruelty and injustice shall have been forsaken here at home it would have been well to maintain a beautiful if silence as to In countries other than our own