BarbarousMexico JOHN KENNETH TURNER

AMERICAN PERSECUTION OF ENEMIES OF DIAZ 279
bers of the Liberal Party and luring them to points in
Mexico where they could be captured by the Diaz police.
This same consul, after De Lara and I started on our
trip to Mexico, offered bribes to various friends of De
Lara to tell them where he had gone.
Such minor details would fill many pages. John Murray
was arrested by Secret Service Chief Wilkie. Murray's
offense consisted of raising money for the legal defense
of the refugees. Robert W. Dowe, the American
customs collector at Eagle Pass, Texas, was compelled
to resign under charges of acting as a secret agent for the
Mexican government, and receiving money for such
service. The evidence in the case was suppressed by our
Treasury Department, which reinstated Dowe after some
months had passed and public indignation over the affair
at Eagle Pass had blown over. In the District Court of
Los Angeles, Cal., a warrant for the arrest of De Lara, his
wife, Mrs. Mamie Shea, an American, Mrs. Marie Talavera
and about twenty others, has been on file for many
months, ready for service at any time. Those named are
charged with violating the neutrality laws in having circulated
a manifesto printed b y the Liberal Party. Threats
that this warrant was to be served have been made to
various of the parties. with the evident purpose of deterring
them from aiding in any way the movement for
the regeneration of Mexico.
Only a few months ago newspapers reported that Major
Elihu Root of the U. S. Army had gone on a special
mission to Mexico to confer with Diaz's War Department
on the most practical means of entrapping the enemies
of Diaz who are sojourning on our soil.
Only a short time ago the news was printed that Punto
Rojo, an anti-Diaz labor paper of Texas, had been sup-