BarbarousMexico JOHN KENNETH TURNER

9 1 BARBAROUS MEXICO
in our War Department; these stories were so misleading
that Galbraith was removed as soon as the real facts
became known.
The agent of the Department of Foinento of Mexico,
on the other hand, reported the facts as they were, and
through the influence of the company he was discharged
at once.
Colonel Greene hurried away on his private car to
Arizona, where he called for volunteers to go to Cananea
and save the American women and children, offering
one hundred dollars for each volunteer, whether he
fought or not. Which action was wholly without valid
excuse, since the strikers not only never assumed the
aggressive in the violent acts of Cananea, but the affair
was also in no sense an anti-foreign demonstration. It
was a labor strike, pure and simple, a strike in which
the one demand was for a raise of wages to five pesos
a day.
While the false tales sent out from Greene's town
were furnishing a sensation for the United States,
Greene's Pinkertons were sent about the streets for another
shoot-up of the Mexicans. Americans had been
warned to stay indoors, in order that the assassins might
take pot shots at anything in sight, which they did. The
total list of killed by the Greene men—which was published
at the time—was twenty-seven, among whom were
several who were not miners at all. Among these, it
is said, was a boy of six and an aged man over ninety,
who was tending a cow when the bullet struck him.
By grossly misrepresenting the situation, Greene succeeded
in getting a force of three hundred Americans,
rangers, miners, stockmen, cowboys and others, together
in Bisbee. Douglas and other towns. Governor Yzabal
of Sonora, playing directly into the hands of Greene at