BarbarousMexico JOHN KENNETH TURNER

THE AMERICAN PARTNERS OF DIAZ
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with being a heavy stockholder in the National Railways
of Mexico; Henry W. Taft, brother of the president,
is general counsel for the same corporation. Thus
it will be seen that these officials have a personal as well
as a political interest in maintaining the system of Diaz.
Three times during the past two years the United
States govcrnnzcnt has rushed an army to the Mexican
border in order to crush a movement of Liberals which
had risen against the autocrat of Mc.rico. Constantly
during the past three ''ears the American governinciit,
through its Secret Service, its Depart ;nent of Justice,
its Imnztgration officials, its border rangers, has mainained
in the border states a reign of terror for Mexicans,
in which it has lent itself unreservedly to the
extermination of political refugees of Mexico who have
sought safety from the long arm of Diaz upon the soil
of the "land of the free and time home of the brave."