Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1910 — INSULT AMERICAN FLAG [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

INSULT AMERICAN FLAG

Americans Tear Old Glory to Pieces and Attack American Citizens. Insults to the American flag In the City of Mexico, and assaults madie •openly on American citizens in the Etreets were part or a demonstration against Americans beginning with the stoning of the Mexican Herald offices. A vigorous protest was registered by the American ambassador with the Mexican department of foreign relations and the facts were wired to Washington. Windows were smashed. While the

police looked on an American flag floating in front of a candy store in the business quarters was torn down by several hundred Mexicans, who trampled and spat it. The mob then tore the flag to tatters. Photographs were taken of the flag desecraters before the office of El Diario Del Hogar, a Mexican newspaper showing many individuals waving bits of the torn American flag. The demonstration was a continuation of the affair caused by antipathy aroused amoEg the people by the burning at the stake of Antonio Rodrigues at Rock Springs, Tex., on the night of Nov. 3.

AMBASSADOR WILSON