Mexico and America

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 67, 23 June 1916, Page 5

Mexico and America

FORTY AMERICANS KILLED IN SKIRMISH. DEATH OF MEXICAN GENERAL. New York, June 22. , A report from El Paso states that the Mexicans, with machine-guns, near Carrizal, attacked an American scouting party. Jt is reported that forty Americans were killed. The Mexican casualties, excepting the death of General Gomez, are unknown. Seventeen Americans were taken prisoners. (Carrizal is 10 Omilcs south of the border, in the province of Chihuahua, opposite El Paso in Texas). Mexico, to use the graphic words of an Omaha paper, “is a third-rate nation on its last legs. As a military power it is a joke. As a power of any kind it is a joke. Four-fifths of its inhabitants can’t road, three-fourths of them are chronically hungry, and there is hardly real food enough left in the entire country to feed one Nebraska Democratic j harmony banquet. Its commerce is gone, its industry in ruins, its agriculture sporadic,incidental and harried by a thousand roving hands of thieves and robbers. Such is Mexico.” This description (says a writer in an exchange), suggests that the military task now before the United States is trifling. But there is the word of a Senator who says, “Mexico to-day has more field-guns than the United States, and, 1 think, is better prepared with ammunition. It Mexico as a power is a joke, the United States, with its population of a hundred millions, and its amazing wealth, is from the militaristic point ol view an almost overwhelming tragedy.