Show i Economic Conditions Real Mexican Menace EL PASO Tex Tax April 15 Economic Economic conditions In In Mexico are more menacIng menacing menacing ing to the hopes of ot a restoration of ot order and the avoidance of ot serious friction between that country and the United States than any political condition conditions conditions con con- according to an American America who returned here today from a tour which embraced most of ot the territory north of ot Mexico City This man who Is 15 identified with large Ameri American an interests In Mexico brought reports of the destruction by mobs of ot the American plants and warehouses ware houses in several Reveral places These outbreaks he said Raid fare are are in my judgment far tar more economic than political The condition of ot the masses of ot the people throughout northern Mexico is terrible Magnificent farm farmlands farmlands farmlands lands capable of ot raising almost any crop in the world have hae been lying untilled un- un tilled for tor five years The peons live or rather exist in sullen Bullen misery Death Is too much a a. commonplace thing for them to care anything more about it They rhey are actually willing to die If it they can In any an measure r ren revenge en E theIr wrongs on whoever the they think is re responsIble responsible responsible re- re for tor them Plain starvation faces thousands of them The They have never ne had much a few frijoles and a chicken being a feast but today to most of ot them a square meal is a thing to dream m of ot Foreigners Blamed The trouble Is ts that th they y have been sedulously taught by agitators to be believe believe be be- lieve that all their woes are due to the tor foreigners They have ne er never seen a poor pool ill nourished American and the tho traditional envy of ot the poor fo the well to do has grown in their case to toa toa toa a mania They are of ot course extremely Ig Ignorant Ignorant ignorant Ig- Ig and superstitious and the antl- antl Carranza factions who are many If it dIvided di divided divided dI- dI vided consistently consistently- tell them that Carranza Carranza Car Car- ranza is In the pay of the Americans who are going to seize all Mexico and take what little they have left away vay from them The sensation tho the border caused by the request of ot General Carranza Car Car- ranza for the withdrawal of ot American troops had far tar from subsided tolay El EI Paso Is filled with refugees who have Interests Interest in Mexico ranging from fortunes to hopes Refugees for Intervention These refugees are said generally to favor Intervention Inter and have been greatly excited by reports that President President dent Wilson contemplated withdrawal of the expeditionary force Stories of ot the looting and destruction of ot American American Ameri Amen can property In Mexico and of hostilIty hostility hostility ity toward Americans by Mexicans are the staple topic of ot conversation In this city and lose los nothing in the telling The O ohly oly authentic authentic- Information re receIved received received re- re here from the int interior comes Ina in ina a few stra stray mess messages in code which are received b by the representatives o ot of large lange mining and lumber concern concerns which maintain headquarters here Up to date these messages have re reported reported reported re- re ported only spasmodic rioting b by hungry hungry hun hun- gry mobs with Inci incidental destruction of ot property of ot relatively small pro proportions portions portion |