Show SLAVES IN mh alco BONDAGE IN TRE PEONS ARE ABE HELD SY BY CRUEL T A good deal has been told ap aed d writ wi itten of the cruel cruelties ties in subterranean Sibe siberia iia but I 1 very much doubt if we situation tion of any convict chained in an underground galley is 18 nearly as aa appalling as anat of hundreds and hundreds ot if the Alex ican a peon slaves toiling within a days journey of the land ot t the tree free I 1 do not say that this ihla is true of all micens at many of them and particularly those owned by Ame americal or english companies the management is humane and admirable in every particular but it its la true of some in these it is not unusual thing for a peon to be mar dered d by some cruel taskmaster in plain sight of his wife who by his bis side hears his dang shriek and is powerless to raise her hand to save ave this is no fancied picture but a dreadful and repeated reality it is surprising ur how bow little is known in general of interior mexico there are thousands of square miles where peonage is a sacred institution and a white maul mau is as great a curiosity as a hippogriff or a unicorn would be there whole families famille are wearily grinding away at debts they had bad more to do with than with the deluge some aric est orthey never saw or heard tell of drauk tor too much mescal one day or lost a few dollars at monte moate or was tempted to buy a gilded sombrero on credit and the mischief was done that they live in ia the darkest sort of ignorance and misery goes without saying else some fine morning they would simply quit being peons geons and afa the powers that oe be at least in mexico could not re reestablish establish that old reime lesime B edgar lee vance in inter baer Si fountain |