Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 219, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1913 — PERRY GWIN BACK FROM OLD MEXICO [ARTICLE]

PERRY GWIN BACK FROM OLD MEXICO

Home for Brief Visit With Parents —Tells of Conditions in the ’ Huerta Country. Perry Gwin arrived home Thursday from Old Mexico, after a rest of two or three weeks in El Paso and Galveston, following his long and hard trip overland from PaTral, Mexico, where he was employed by the Waters Pierce Oid Co. The experiences, he had were told in a letter published In this paper after he reached El Paso and the details were more fully entered into in an interview by the editor of The Republican. • Mr. Gwin says that no on can conceive of the depravity in that stricken country. The cities have been looted, banks blown up and then robbed, stores stripped of everything, manufacturing industries dynamited, cattle butchered to support the roving armies, and every industry suspended. Even the raising of crops has been dispensed with and it is almost impossible to get enough together to sustain the body. There had been no train into Parral since March 10th and consequently no way of getting things into or out of that city except by long trips overland and these were beset with untold dangers. Mr. Gwin brought with him a number of kodak pictures which he had taken, showing instances of devastation, also pictures of “Good Mexicans” hanging by their necks from telegraph poles and of rows of other dead Mexicans in trenches ready for burial. He stated that 150 miles of railroad had been destroyed by one set of the rebels, who used a “jumbo” wrecker, rolling the rails in heaps and burning the ties. Mr. Gwin can see nothing more than a temporary cessation of the hostilities under any agreement of peace. He holds that American intervention is the essential method of rehabilitation for that country. He states that American interests in Mexico exceed a billion dollars, greater by $400,000,000 than that of Mexico itself. England, Germany and Prance also have large interests and ho expects one or all of these countries to demand that the U. S. furnish protection to their interests. > If peace could be restored under United States protection, Mr. Gwin says that marvelous opportunities will be opened to capital and industry during the reconstruction period. Mr. Gwin has promised to write for The Republican an article treating with the conditions there and his own experiences. He says that he has no thought of again entering that country unless he wears a khaki uniform.