TWENTY CHARGES AGAINST DIAZ

...The Guggenheims controlled the smelting plants of Monterey, San Luis Potosi, Aguascalientes, and Ve-lardena in Durango, and were trying to get a foothold in Pachuca and Real del Monte, thereby forcing the retirement of all the companies that had sunk a great amount of capital in smelters and mining ventures...

...Powell Clayton, to appear every afternoon at the National Palace with a list of recommendations for private American affairs, in order that they might be approved immediately by the administrative and judicial authorities in favor of the interested parties, even when the requests constituted an infamous injustice to the rights of the Mexican people...

...Sixth:—Having permitted the Gug-genheims to monopolize almost completely the important metallurgic industry upon which the progress of mining in the country depended...

...The revolutionary press proclaimed as one of the great principles of popular restitution the "Mexicanization" of the railroads, which meant expulsion of all non-Mexican officials and employees...

...but if the foreigner were an American, his Mexican opponent was obliged to pay the costs of the suit...

...The national press stigmatized Governor Izabel of Sonora as a traitor to his country for not having ejected the insolent intruders by force of arms...

...Ninth.—The permission given by General Diaz to the United States Ambassador, Mr...

...granting them also exemption from export duties on the crude or refined product, thereby depriving the Mexican people of the only means at their command, to derive anything from the exploitation of their great national wealth...

...Further, favor was shown these two favorites of the dictator, by allowing them to fix the rate of tariff at both the maritime and frontier custom houses so as totally to exclude paper for newspapers, and, in great part, all other paper from the national market...

...Thirteenth:—Having despoiled the Yaquis, brave and indomitable as the Araucanians, of their magnificent lands to hand them over to thieving bureaucrats, who wanted them merely to sell to American investors...

...Fourteenth.—Having despoiled various towns in the State of Mexico of their magnificent wooded hills in order to favor an American and Senor Jose Sanchez Ramos, a Spaniard, proprietors of the paper factories of San Rafael and Anexas...

...A storm of indignation broke loose in the Mexican mining world against the Cientificos for having co'nsented, for the sake of brokerage fees and enormous gratuities, to drain the nation of its capital by making it over to outsiders...

...Tenth:—The arrangement by the law office of the noted Cientifico, Sr...

...Louis Huller, of German extraction and a naturalized American citizen, who passed it on to an American colonizing enterprise...

...Even after the Secretary of Fomen-to, Senor Olegario Molina, disavowed the Limantour-Mallet Prevost agreement, the inhabitants of the "Laguna" region, when they became aware that the Cientificos protected the enterprises that were working their ruin in order to please the United States Ambassador, assumed a revolutionary attitude, breathing hate against the Cientificos and all foreigners who sought to steal their water and lands—a hatred that later vented itself in the assassination of three hundred Chinamen and several Spaniards in Torreon, with the expulsion of the latter and the confiscation of their property...

...and moreover, the grant of several millions indemnity to the Tlahualilo Company for damages caused by it to the river-bank-dwellers of the Nazas through a colonization contract which had lapsed under the provision of the law, because of non-fulfillment, and which was null, besides, because it was unconstitutional, as Senor Limantour had acted without the necessary faculties, because it did not come within the province of the Treasury Department to settle matters of this nature...

...Henry Lane Wilson, was the chief protector of the Tlahualilo enterprise to exploit Mexico, and went so far as to make the absurd statement that when there was even a single American stockholder in a stock company, organized with stocks to the bearer, incorporated under Mexican laws, even if his share were only one cent, it gave the United States Government the right to make a claim against the Mexican Government under the title of rights of aliens...

...Sixteenth:—Consenting, after the Mexican Government had obtained control of the American branches and fused all into one great company called LINEAS NACIONALES, to the appointment by Senor Limontour of an American, Mr...

...Thompson, to enter the business field In Mexico, something that would not have been tolerated in any other country, and having granted him personal concessions by means of which he organized The United States Banking Company and the Pan-American Railroad...

...The spoliation of the Yaquis brought upon Mexico a bloody struggle of twenty years, which has served at the same time as a school of depravity for the Federal judges, the majority of whom dragged it out indefinitely in order to benefit pecuniarily by the frauds...

...Brown, to the important post of General Manager, and to the assignment of all the important posts, especially those drawing large salaries, to Americans...

...Although both companies were obliged to keep the native working-men, they could dismiss all the Mexican employees, especially the high-salaried ones...

...Mal-let-Prevost, lawyer of the Tlahualilo Company, of an agreement which ruined the river-bank-dwellers, both great an3 small, of the Nazas River in the cotton region of the "Laguna," who were for the most part Mexicans...

...Second:—The Government was accused of having given its consent to changes effected in the Mining Code, including the clause which assigns to the owner of the land the coal deposits that may be found upon it, for no other reason than that of enriching the grantees of unclaimed lands in the state of Coahuila, who had acquired the Sabina lands for an insignificant sum with a view to selling them to the American multi-millionaire, Huntington...

...Third:—Having sold, for next to nothing, 3,000,000 hectares of excellent lands in the State of Chihuahua to two favorites of the Mexican Government, that they might resell to Mr...

...Joaquin Casasus, of the scandalous concessions in the rubber lands granted to the American multi-millionaires John Rockefeller and Nelson Aldrich, which caused the ruin of a great number of poor towns in the State of Durango...

...Fifteenth:—Having conceived the gigantic operation that gave the Mexican Government control of the great railroad system, with no purpose in view other than that of permitting the banking house of Scherer-Limantour, in combination with American railroad magnates, to buy secretly and at a low figure, the stocks of the Mexican Central, the National, the International, the Pan-American, and other railroads, to sell them later at a great advance to the Mexican government, thus consummating a piratical financial stroke against Mexico and the holders of the Mexican railroad stocks...

...Twelfth:—Having sold for an almost nominal sum, 50,000,000 hectares of marvellously fertile lands to twenty-eight favorites, who made poor bargains with the foreign companies to whom they sold them, mostly Americans, as it was the latter's ambition to buy up the country by bits and finally realize the boasted pacific conquest...

...El Na-cional," a newspaper with a wide circulation, started the campaign, causing great alarm...

...Eleventh:—The verbal arrangement between Senor Limantour, the leader of the Cientificos, and Mr...

...Fifth:—Notwithstanding the fact that the most scandalous of all the oil concessions was that granted by the dictatorship to Lord Cowdray (consequently in favor of English capital) it was well received by the patriots, until the press began agitating the matter, saying that Lord Cowdray was intimately associated with ex-President Taft's Administration, as his brother, Henry W. Taft, and George W. Wickersham, Attorney General in the Taft Cabinet, were directors in the company organized and presided over by Lord Cowdray...

...Seventeenth:—The unceasing efforts of Senor Limantour, finally crowned with success, to place the oldest mining company, the COM-PANIA DE MINAS DE PACHUCA & REAL DEL MONTE, in the hands of an American company, organized in Boston, and to having followed the same course with the "Santa Ger-trudis" concern...

...Eighth:—Having permitted the United States Ambassador, Mr...

...It held that Lower California would follow the fate of Texas from the moment that the same methods of turpitude and treason were employed against the Mexican people...

...Eighteenth:—The grant by Senor Limantour of a monopoly to the house of Mosler, Bowen & Cook, to supply all office furniture to Government offices, as well as to Government schools, and to supply permanently all desk requisites for Government offices...

...The American Ambassador, Mr...

...Twentieth:—The complete prostitution of the judicial system, which dictated that in case a foreigner was in litigation with a Mexican, the case had to be decided in favor of the foreigner, whether he were right or wrong, without making the Mexican pay the costs...

...Hearst, the well known celebrated millionaire, who constantly conspired against the integrity of Mexican territory so as to bring about armed intervention...

...Fourth.—Granting concessions to foreign companies to exploit the oil lands, among which companies the American predominated...

...Seventh:—The granting to Colonel Greene, an American citizen, of enormous concessions in the copper lands of the State of Sonora, upon which he had established the famous Cananea Plant, where the four thousand employees were treated like slaves, and with such inhumanity that there was an uprising among them, with the result that armed men from the United States passed into Mexican territory to protect the American oppressors...

...Nineteenth.—The abandonment by Senor Limantour of his patriotic resolution not to place any of the foreign loans with New York banks, as he had given these banks a share in the conversion of the loans of 1899, and had placed the entire loan of 1904, amounting to $40,000,000 with the New York house of J. Pier-pont Morgan...