Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-27 | Page 6 | Work Mexicans as Farm Slaves

IIHICffi John Lind Tells Senate of the Conditions on Plantations of Americans WASHINGTON, April 27. John Lind, former governor of Minnesota, described today to tho senate committee commit-tee investigating Mexican affairs his efforts as special emissary of President Presi-dent Wilson to got the Into VIctoriano Huerta to abdicate his power as dictator dic-tator in Mexico and allow a new government gov-ernment to be set up there in 1013. Mr. Lind refused to detail conversations conversa-tions with the Mexican chief or Instructions In-structions given him by the president except as they were outlined In printed print-ed memoranda which he submltteu. "My object, according to my Instructions, In-structions, was to bring about an adjustment ad-justment between tho contending powers," pow-ers," he said, "so that tho country could have pence, and a do facto government gov-ernment be set up which tho United States could recognize." Mr. Lind said of tho Latin-American disorganization: "Tho primary causes arc social and economic. In the tropical trop-ical plantations owned by Americans, I saw men working almost as slaves, guarded by men with revolvers and whips and locked up at night. Tho mines In the north andcommerclal enterprises, of course, nre carried on In a different fashion." ' "Don't you think American Influence Influ-ence and ideas has gone far towarus ameliorating these conditions of Mexican Mexi-can labor?" the witness was asked. '"1 don't think the Influence of Americans has gono far In the south," Air. Lind replied. "I think more has been dono by Mexican workmen who have lived in tho United States." Iit, '