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Show Southern Republic Said to Realize America May Act to Prevent Further Spoliation. Carranza Representa- tives Aim to Prove Depredations Caused by Roving Bandits. BY JUSTIN McGRATH. Editorial Correspondent, Universal Service, WASHINGTON, July 9. High Mexican officials are more apprehensive than they have beer, at any time during the past ten years of interference on the part of the United States to bring to an end the brigandage which has prevailed in Mexico. Mex-ico. They have begun to realize that the time at last has arrived when the United States, with the full approval of Great Britain and France and acting in their interest as well as In its own, may be expected to establish conditions in Mexico and protect their property interests inter-ests from spoliation. It is this realization which has caused them to send Minister Bonillas back to j Washington to make special pleas to the j president through the state department ! and has caused them to set up in New , York a bureau with, which all Americans having claims against Mexico are re- quested to file their statements of dam; , ages in order, as is said, that they maV J receive earlier attention than could be ; obtained for them if they were forwarded j through diplomatic channels. j ROVING BANDS BLAMED FOR DEPREDATIONS. Bonillas, it is said, will be armed with information from the Mexican archives 'tending to show that a stable government has been established in Mexico end that the murders and depredations which have occurred are to be charged to roving bands of guerillas. v The Mexican government, govern-ment, it will be claimed, is doing everything every-thing in its power to capture these bandits ban-dits and bring them to justice, but at the same time Is unwilling to accept financial responsibility for the outrages which 'these bands have committed against foreigners for-eigners and their property. The pleas of Bonillas may be accepted by the state department, but they will not interfere with the determination of the Republican majority in congress to demand from Mexico, as soon as the peace treaty is out of the way, full reparation for the crimes committed against the persons per-sons and property of American nationals in Mexico and definite assurances of their complete protection in the future, if intervention in-tervention is to be avoided. CONGRESS INFORMED AS TO WRONGS COMMITTED. Through the association for the protection pro-tection of American rtghts in Mexico congress con-gress is being kept fully informed about conditions in Mexico and the wron committed against Americans. Heretofore Hereto-fore all information about conditions in Mexico has been the exclusive possession of the state department, which has denied de-nied the reports of its special investigators investiga-tors to congress. But now congress is being kept fully Informed by a service far more cornpiete than the state department was ever able to establish. And the more informed they become of the real conditions in Mexico, the greater becomes the indignation of the senators and representatives and the stronger their determination to adopt a policy towards I Mexico which will surely put an end to j the shameful haplessness In which Amer-I Amer-I leans and American interests in Mexico I so long have been left. I Here is a letter received by Senator I Gore of Oklahoma from A. C. Johnson, j president of the Mexican Land company, I which makes clear what Americans in j Mexico have suffered through the failure of their government to insure t hem the protection which they felt they had a right to expect: "Henrys tta, Okla.. June 7, 1319. "Senator Gore, Washington. V. C. "My dear sir: The w-lter has always jbeen an optimist and always an enemy I to pessimism, but there comes a time j in all men'B lives when patience ceases I to be a virtue, and. my dear sir. I am ; registering a kick and want to make it : a good stout one. against the admlmstra-i admlmstra-i tlon at Washington. 1 "Some fifteen years ago the writer was j Induced to go to Mexico by seductive lit-! lit-! eraturc. whih was sent to me by the i National Railroads of Mexico. In fact. J myself and a lare number of friends mace a trip through the republic of ! (Continued on Page -1, Column 3.) Intend to demand justice for us. how soon can we expect this relief to come? "Thanking you for a frank and prompt answer, I remain, "Sincerely yours, "A. C. JOHNSON. "President Mexican Land Company." DEMAND ACTION FROM CONGRESS. The above letter is typical of letters which are coming by the score to senators sen-ators from Americans who located or invested in-vested in Mexico. They are demanding that, congress ' declare definitely whether they and their interests, honestly acquired, ac-quired, are to be protected, or whether they are to be abandnned to whatever fate Mexican bandits may be inclined to mete out to them. There is no doubt about the answer which the Republican , majority is disposed to give. Jt is for , lull protection. It hopes to find the state I department and the president in accord, with this determination. But if they are found not to be, then the country most probably will be more stirred up over Mexico than it has been over (he peace treaty. The state department this afternoon after-noon issued a formal warning to Americans Amer-icans with claims against Mexico to disregard dis-regard the financial agent of the Mex- lean government and the Mexican claims commission and to put whatever claims they have in the hands of the American government. "In order that American citizens having-claims having-claims against Mexico might not he misled by this advertisement fan advertisement adver-tisement appearing in a New York paper and entitled 'The Truth About Mexico'), the acting- secretary of state," reads tho statement, "points! out that . the government govern-ment of the United States has not accepted ac-cepted the Mexican commission referred to In the decree of November 24 and December De-cember 24, If) 17. and has not advised American claimants to present their claims against Mexico to this commission." commis-sion." The statement likewise shows the futility fu-tility of American claimants attempting to obtain redress through the. medium of the Mexican claims commission. The statement declares that, even though their claims are passed on favorably by that body, it is up to the federal executive execu-tive to make awards and at the present 1 time the federal executive lacks the funds : to do this. , MEXICO FEARS U. S. WILL TIE STEPS -U ( Continued from Pag Ona.) Mexico. "We entered the republic at Laredo and were met at Pan Luis Po-tosl Po-tosl by the industrial agent of the National Na-tional Railroads, V. M. (Juttierez. who is nmv director general of tfce railroads in Mexico. We were encourage to come to Mexico and Invest, and seductive inducements in-ducements were offered us. "When we arrived in Mexico City, we were entertained by the government, and after having made a thorough examination exami-nation of the country we came to the conclusion that great opportunities were there and we invested extensively in Mexican lands. We were assured by the i Mexican government officials that we were more than welcome to come there. "Jn 1909 we organized a land company and began selling land .-nd undertook the establishment of a cop -y and began to run excursion to Mexuv taking good, loyal American citizens titer They were met by officers of the Mexi :u government govern-ment and encouraged to come there and I establish their homes. Nine : earH ago this coming .October war broke out in Mexico. Even during the first two years of the war we continued to go and were flattered and encouraged by the Mexicans to come and a great many of us came. "Then some kind of a misunderstanding misunderstand-ing came up between the governments of the United States and Mexico and the administration at Washington requested re-quested and almost demanded that we desert our homes and come back to the United States, many of us penniless. At least 05 per cent of the people who went down there were real Americans, loyal to their government, to Its traditions and ready to protect its honor with the last drop of blood In their veins. REMAIN LOYAL TO AMERICA. "While a great hardship was imposed on them, in many instances poverty and need, they have remained loyal to the country of their birth, and, my dear sir, these men are anxious to return to their homes and their property. They have patirntly waited for the administration to do something. They have read evry scrap of news from Mexico and every detail of Information that has come from Washington, believing in their government, govern-ment, believing in Its administration and believing that it would bring about a state of affairs and demand for them Justice from the Mexican government, bur six long years have gone by, and instead of being any nearer to a condition condi-tion by which they can have their rights and possession of their property which thev have legitimately and honestly acquired, ac-quired, conditions are worse. "Five thousand of them have requested request-ed of me that I ask of you. 'What is the administration's policy? Does it intend to lt the Mexicans deprive us of our rights, honorably and legally acquired? This suspense and uncertainty is cruel and unjust to us. If your policy is to let Mexico confiscate our property, kindly kind-ly tell us so, tn orner that wo may be relieved of the suspense and start in and try to establish homes at this late hour somewhere else. "Fifteen years of the best part of my life has been devoted to this enterprise. ! My great -grandmother was a s'ster to 1 banle! Webster, who shook the very : foundations of the capltoi, and in the next generation Chandler was my grand-fa grand-fa thr's cousin. When the civil war broke out, from the two remaining families fam-ilies nine men marched off to defend their country. Only the youngest boys remained at home, and we have, a right a loval American citizens to be protected in the right, and if the policy of our govern men t Is to allow the Mexicans to take from up that whlr-h we honestly acquired and is log'-i'y and lawfully ours, kindlv inform us. - "We will thank you very much if you will frankly state to us. does our government govern-ment Intend to demand of Mexico our honest rliehts. or does It Intend to leave j us at the msrey of those thieves and i bandits? j "If the latter is the intention, it will be ! more than kind of you to frankly state j 30, ao we can turn our attention to something some-thing else. On the other hand, if they I |