Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1917 — J. Blaine Gwin Writes Interesting Article For “Survey.” [ARTICLE]

J. Blaine Gwin Writes Interesting Article For “Survey.”

“The Survey,” a magazine nublished in New York, has in its March 3, 1917, issue a very interesting article from the pen of J. Blaine Gwin, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Gwin, of this city. The article is entitled “liking Friends of Invaders.” The gist of the article is given by The Survey as follows: “The safe side of the Rio Grande is the side the American troopers are on. So General Pershing and his men were followed home by a great cavalcade that might- have reminded Gibbon of the folk who followed the Asiatic invaders into the Roman empire. Sanitation and relief were looked after by the Red Cross, and admissibility by the immigration authorities. The story of it by Mr. Gwin, secretary of the Associated Charities at El Paso, who acted for the Red Cross and whose earlier article, Over the Bridge at the Border, will be recalled by readers of the Survey for July 8,1916.” One of the most interesting passages in Mr. Gwin’s atricle, as taken from the Survey, follows: “This remarkable exodus of almost the entire population from a rather extensive area, leaving empty casas and deserted villages to follow an invading army to the land of the invaders, has given students of Mexican conditions an opportunity to do some clear and constructive "thinking about the future of that little-understood country. The best, and moot stable people of Mexico have gone from their homes in order to preserve their lives, and what remains of of their property, to enter the land of the ‘hated gringos.’ They have crossed over the border line apparently without fear and without any indication of that hate and ill-feeling about which we have read so much. They have come because this country was at peace and their country was at war; because they did not want to join any Mexican force, but desired only to till their farms and run their mills in peace."