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EDITED BY WILLIAM OWEN English Section Regeneracion.
REGENERACION Four Weeks of Issues Appeal to World Workers Revolution Land Question Paramount 119 cover. Friends and Foes as a us smul It is not reason that appeals to the surrecto forces. Next week we stated may prove as vital to their interests Appeal to Reason, but subscripthat the rebels had taken the imas was the French Revolution.
portant city of Santiago Papasquiaro, Published every Saturday at 5194 tions and political power; gained by For this combined work is retemporary municipal election vicafter a hard struggle, getting 40, 000 quired. vast propaganda must be Elth St. Los Angeles, Cal.
tories which, purchased by uncleanly cartridges, much other ammunition set on foot. and pushed persistently.
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alliances and unscrupulous comproand money. All the leading city ofaFunds must be secured and secured Subscription rates: mises, are the most disastrous of decials were taken prisoners. On the in large amounts. The hands of the Not all the influential dailies are Por an. 1111 00 feats.
Haney men who proclaim other hand, that same week Lerdo, Mexican Liberal Party must be up: content to fool themselves and their Per IX months 10 loudly. Worklugmen of the World, another valuable center, El Oro and The International Committee of the beld. at all and every cost, just as the public with the delusion that Nexico per three months. 60 nlte! pluming themselves on an in.
Canatlaan were taken with little dif Mexican Liberal Party Junta has is capitalists of the world are uphold will rest content with mere electoral For the benefit of readers who ficulty, the officials fleeing.
Creased vote purchased by advocating At the thought the Mexican Revolution a last named the records were burned, will be translated into several lan.
sued the following manifesto, which ing Madero hands.
reforms, as may be seen from the folBI YDLE ODERS.
the exclusion or the Japanese! Tho Accordingly, we have organized in lowing, which we clip from the San 100 coples 00 Chinese yesterday, the Japanese to small affair to be settled by prom while át Bi Oro large quantities of guages and distributed as widely as Los Angeles the International Com Francisco Bulletin, being its ediSOO (ples 12. 50 day, tlie Mexicans tomorrow, NO isus of superficial political reforms or ammunition fell into the hands of possible, the object being to explain mittae, of the Mexican Liberal Party torial of 19: May 10) copies 20. 00 Another important city with absolute wonder they are lukewarm and dodge the intervention of a handful of for the victors.
clearness the party Jutja, with the expectation that Although Dictator Diaz has promthe greatest struggle since the Civil eign troops, we give a summary of in this state, recently captured by the position as distinguished from that of similar committees will be organized events chronicled by Regeneracion rebels, is Pachuca.
ised to resign and the rebellion in Madero and his followers: Eultor ind Proprietor, Anselmo War.
in all the principal cities of the in its four issues from April 29 to Mexico is at pause, it is not certain Figueroa.
Unites States and Europe.
The American workingman may GUANAJUATO From this, which May 20. When it is considered that is a small state but within striking We attach ourselves to the Junta that peace will follow tảe carrying miserably poor out of If the rebels in Lower California, because we are in sympathy with it, the proposed compromise.
not know it today, but he will dis Regeneracion is Interru second class matter tomorrow, that the Mexican and can put no reporters in the field; distance of fiexico City, much gueri! or other bands hitherto fighting Inde but we reserve to ourselves, individ Mexico has two revolutions, and the September 19, 1910, at the post ofRevolution will affect his future more that news has been subjected to all la activity has been reported, raids pendently, do not lay down their ually and collectively, independence government bas thus far treated only ace at Los Angeles, Californla, under with the leaders of one.
profoundly than all the Milwaukees the censorship the government could on haciendas being frequent. Mine arms, Madero army will be used to of action.
the Act of March 3, 1879.
over dreamed of in tho opium den of exercise; that through the length and owners complained that they were suppress them.
All fungs collected by or through Much has been printed about the Yo, 39.
politics. For, if it succeeds, it will breadth of Mexico communications visited by rebels searching for dyna The foregoing statement, taken us will be turned over to the Junta Maderists, little about the Mexican Saturday, May 17, 1911. launch this and every other country have been greatly interrupted and of wite. By the capture of Romita the from an Associated Press Dispatch, treasurer. We have decided on this. Liberals. The Maderists seek repubon the sea of an economic upheaval ten severed entirely when all these rebels acquired many horses and a dated Juarez, May 18, 1911, and at course because of our confidence in lican representation and the freedom Records compared with which previous revo things are considered it will be self plentiful supply of arms. The Liberals, who are tributed to one of Madero leaders, the lategrity of said treasurer and of the ballot.
lutions may be as nothing; while, 10 evident that the events recorded form burned.
represents exactly the position in because the Junta knows best when in reality Socialists, are fighting for it fails, triumphant capitalism will but a fraction of the actual volume.
GUERRERO Here the fighting Mexico as it has been known to the and where mopey should be ex a redistribution of the land, lader ride him as he never yet was ridden.
They are sufficient, however, for it has been constaut and fierce. The Junta of the Mexican Liberal Party. pended.
ists are political revolutionists. Libluminous interpretation of what is entire state has been overrun bý for many months past, Its knowlThe signatures appended vouch for erals are economic revolutionists.
guerilla bands, some of which had as edge has been based on statements the international character of the While the Maderists were dickerSpecial attention is achet! for the In another column we publish a now transpiring in Mexico City, and review of the fighting in Mexico, as may serve to show how grossly the many as 800 members.
inanifesto of the internal loanl. omIn April we made by Madero himself, committee, and the signers have been ing with the Diaz government for cabpuittee of the Meifan Liberal arty reported in the last four numbers or American public has been decelved by reported a new insurrectionary party From the first, Madero sole aim selected as being well known to their inet positions and governorships the Junta, reproduced in adotlier column Regeneracion. This we do because, its plutocratic papers, which to the as having seized a mine from which has been political; the substitution of respective countrymen. Other names Liberal party, through its ofticial orwhile the public has begun to see last moment possible represented the It expresses tersely, but clearly, the they got 500, 000, in addition to his government for that of Diaz. will be added shortly: gan, Regeneracion, published in fundamental distinction between Ma.
through Madero as a mere political Mexican upheaval as an affair of bor.
much livestock. That same month Los Angeles, said to its soldier and From the first, the Mexican Liberal Signed (Italy)
der outposts.
office hunter, It still supposes that alcivilian dero and the Liberals 1500 rebels captured Xochihuehuent Party sole alm has been economic; supporters: Moreover, it CAMINITA. The taking ter the coalition of his forces witn This paper, voicing the convictions lan, and a force of soo took Omete the substitution of economic liberty puts the Mexican question squarely VITTORIO CRAVELLO, away of the land from the hands of Mexican that inspire the Liberal those of Diaz the revolution will cease up to those who, for a generation pec, executing the Jefe Politico. An for slavery.
ANDREA LA MORTICELLA, the rich must be accomplished dur automatically.
Party, has insisted from the first the plutocratic other band took San Marcos.
past, have been shouting economic de Madero belongs to one of Mexico ing the present insurrection. The (Mexico)
Read the that the land question Land and tachment of thirty federal soldiers en weillthiest families, which owns ap Liberals will not commit a crime in RICARDO FLORES MAGON, emancipation.
organg smoothly put it.
The excuse that they In this route to Mexico City by train was in proximately 5, 000, 000 acres of land.
review and form your own conclu Liberty is fundamenta. giving the land back to the working FIGUEROA, can not understand the difference beslans; remembering that, thanks to connection we invite our readers to tercepted and all but two were slain. That very fact constitutes him people, for theirs it is the people tween the Mexican Liberal Party and OJEDA, exceedingly limited means, rigorous note that, whatever the insurrectos Tierra Colorada and Taxco are among nember of the slave holding class. the land that they live on and the VELARDE, Madero is entirely out of date censorship and interrupted communi may or may not do when they cap the cities noted as having been cap for the enslavement of Mexico has FRANCISCO MARTINEZ.
land they cultivate by the sweat of rations, only a fraction of the real ture an important town, they almost tured in both places tho public rec been accomplished by depriving the (United States)
their brows, the land which the vul The Madero Diaz compromise, invariably burn the records, So It news fins its way to this office.
tures robbed our Indian fathers of ords were burned and jall prisoners people of their land and conferring WM. OWEN, says the San Francisco Bulletin, was during the French revolution.
released. Acapulco, a most import it on syndicates and wealthy capi. Germany)
by force.
editorially, has as its first considVill there be interveotion? Prob It is the instinct of the people trans ant city, is seriously threatened. In talists.
RUDOLPH WIRTH. Now the question arises: Can eration the politician. The second ably; for the Powers argue that the lating itself into action at the earliest dians, froin the Sierra Morelos dis The Mexican Liberal party grasped (Russia)
Francisco Madero, Jr. obtain, by his compromise, yet to be arranged, must lives and property interests of their opportunity. Not a Jexican peon but trict, have been specially active in this cconomic fact at its inception A, CHERBAK, compromise, an extension of civil be based on some plan to give the respective citizens must be protected knows that the land monopolist is this state, being reported well and nine years ago adopted as its LEIFFERT, privileges sufficient to induce the Libat every cost. As the revolution is poor and wretched peon a chance to his enemy, who strikes him through armed and organized. Poland)
niotto, Land and Liberty.
accompanied by bitter fighting, and as erals to lay down their arms and seek Ow himself and a home. Excelthe official and the inachinery of law, Madero allied to the landowners K. JOZEFOSKI, to accomplish their object by the use And lently, most excellently put!
fighting necessarily means loss of The full report will cover twenty IDALGO In this state, and the Catholic church necessarily LAZICKI, of votes instead of bullets? That is the pity of it is that those we callife and property, the Powers might our states and two territories out of which borders on the Federal District opposes the Mexican Liberal Party, the Mexican problem as it stands toculated on most confidentiy to help just as well say at once that they in he total of, twney nine states and of Mexico, we have reported, within He claims that he will govern Mexico WORTH STUDYING agreed, The Madero Diaz comprospread that obvious truth do not care tend to put down the revolution wo territories into which Jexico is the last four weeks, Cacahuatepec as wisely and humanely, but he has no! Yo papers printed in the English mise has as its first consideration the to see it. As a whole both the SoThis they attempted to do in France, divided. Only one state that is at 11 being beleaguered by 200 rebels; Taxconception of making the Mexicans language have shown such apprecia politician. The second compromise, cialists and the followers of Henry as you may remember, a century ago. important, viz. Tamaulipas, is omit. as having been taken after a fierce self governing by helping them to tion, and intelligent appreciation, of set to be arranged, must be based on What will intervention mean?
George are silent. The first considIn ted.
fight, the conquerors subsequeutly economic independence.
the struggle now convulsing Mexico some plan to give the poor and tervention will meaHELL, eration the politician. Is that their For reference purposes na mes have executing the city officials, and TicoThere is no guarantee that under as have the organs: We re wretched peon a chance to own him.
attitude?
been arranged aljhabetically: man and Tlaltizapan as having fallen Madero, or any of his supporters, the turn the compliment by studying the self and a home.
With the money to the revolutionists.
people of Nexico will be happier or organization press constantly and power of the world exercising absoMost gladly do we except from AGUASC. ILIEYTES In this, the JAILISCO San Cristobel de la more prosperous than they have been giving it credit on every possible oc lute power over the Diaz government the foregoing criticism the Socialist smallest of all the states. guerilla Barrance was taken in April without under Diaz. On the contrary, it is casion. The limited space at our and great influence vith the Maderpaper, Revolt, published in San bands have bern extremely active.
trouble, the officials fleeing.
Gueril certain that the country would recommand is necessarily devoted, as ist leaders, the redistribution of this Francisco. From its first issue it has Madero is a humanitarian; Madero. nder date of May 20 we reported million acre las are active and Hostotipaquillo aud main, as it is today, in the grip of a rule, to the Mexican Revolution exestates, which are the stated clearly that this is an economic believes in peace; Madero will rethe formation of three new ones, all Etzetlan have been reported recently the money power and be worked sole clusively, but, by request we now re curse of Mexico, is impossible, but the revolution, and one of incomparable deem the nation by guaranteeing free well armed and strong in numbers.
beins threatened by newly ly with an eye to dividends, regard produce the preamble to the W:new regime can and should make the importance to the united workers of speech and free elections; Madero CAMPECHE With the exception formed body of insurgents.
less of the welfare of the people. constitution. For the XV. äre monopolization of immense tracts of the world. Discussing the Diaz Ma confiscates copies of Regeneracion of Yucatan, this is the southenmost Bladero has used for his own po la fighting force and we ourselves land unprofitable. For the good of dero pact, it says: being distributed in Juarez and has of all the states. May 20 we reported LOWER CALIFORNIA. The cap litical advancement tñe following of stand where we can distinguish clear the cause of human liberty it is to be Are the people of Mexico, the the newsboys driven out of town; uprisings on the plantations as in ture of Tijuana, of Alamo and Te the Mexican Liberal Party, taking ad ls between those who buck the line and hoped that such a compromise will be workingmen and working women of Madero orders his army to advance creasing daily.
cate have been described. at length in vantage of the long imprisonment of those who shirk: made, for without it there will be the nation, ready for peace on such on Chihuahua because the legislature CHIAIAS This is one of the far the columns of this paper, and we its most prominent members at the Preamble bloodshed and possibly the terms? Let the American trust subwill not select as governor the man thest south states, being bounded by have recorded also the taking of San behest of Diaz and the money powers. The working class and the employ yielding of the American government sidized newspapers in this country de of his choice; Madero instructs VilSan Tomas.
Guatemiala.
Elmo, Owing to distance and Quintin, Santo And By lavish use of money, wrung from ing class have nothing in common to a demand for intervention.
clare it so, since they must, let the joen, Villa, Orozco, bis own brother, the severing of all communications, Santa Catarina and two other com helpless tenants and employes, he has There can be no peace so long as huž intervention would insure the perpetrepulsive swine wolf creatures who Gustave, to invade Lower California it has been most difficult to get in paratively unimportant points. The transformed, for the moment, an eco gér and want are found among mil uation of the great estates and the the American Interests in and subjugate ar annihilate the Mex formation.
Pichucalco, a town of victory won by the rebels at Mexicali nomie revolution into a political, al lions of working people and the few, continuation of the enslavement of làMexico gloat over the dread prospect ican Liberal Party; Madero Oh! somo importance, was captured by will be fresh in the minds of readers. legedly reform crusade.
who make up the employing class, borers by upholding with vayonets a of such peace, but let the workingPshaw!
the rebels recently.
MEXICO, FEDERAL DISTRICT Much blood has been shed, and will have all the good things of life.
goveronient thoroughly satisfactory to men and working women of this counWilliam Randolph Hearst and CHIL All :1This Between these two classes a struglarge, rich Here Juchitepec fell to the rebels af be shed, in the revolution now contry pause and consider. And listen!
and most important state, has been ter a long slege, the officials fleeing, vulsing Mexico.
PRICE SET FREE Much money has gle must go until the workers of the other foreign investors.
The sounds from across the border already indicate that Madero peace By direct orders from Washington, the scene of much activity. Apart At Topilejo stores had been looted been spent, and is being spent; im world organize as a class, take posComrade Pryce, in command of the order is not being obeyed!
from the capture of Juarez we regis and aris confiscated in April last, mense sacrifices have been made and session of the earth and the machinIf there did not exist these men who Hurrah tered second division of the rebel forces in in April the capture of and we also then reported that the are being made. It would be lunacy ery of reproduction, and abolish tle for the revolution that shall be a reyare ready to discipline or kill any one Lower California, and than Casas Grandes, which had been at authorities had been powerless to to. permit them to be wasted on a wage system, olution!
thirty other comrades who had been tacked in March.
We find that the centering of the at the word of command. soldiers and suppress uprisings in the slums of mere change of presidents and cabiCOAHUILA There has been con Vexico City itself.
nets.
held as prisoners by the military aumanagement of industries into fewer policemen. no one would dare assert Even then there Very different is the pote struck by thorities, By what title does Madero, or any and fewer hands makes the trades what the non laboring landlords now stant and henvy fighting in this state, had been much raiding of neighborthe released last Tues Appeal to Reason, which It is believed that thereby which borders Chihuahua and Duran ing haciendas.
other self appointed dictator, arro unions unable to cope with the ever so confidently assert. that the soil Subsequently the prece.
breaks silence on the Mexican Revothe employing surrounding the peasants, who die for dent has been established which will go, on the east. Three hundred rel towns of Tipichulco and Amecameca gate to himself the right of saying growing power of lution with a carefully studied artisave much trouble in the future, cle anent the taking of Juarez, els took Parras de la Fuerte in Apel were captured. Last week we report when and under what conditions the class. The trade unions foster a state lack of land, is the property of a man The last after a bloody battle, Publiced federal forces as having been de Mexican nation shall cease its strug of affairs which allows one set of who does not work on it. Tolstoy. point emphasized is that It testifies workers to be pitted against another to the rising power of democracy in buildings were dynamited, Madero feated signally in a skirmish that sle for economic independence?
EMMA NOT AFRAID, cotton factories were destroyed and took place on the outskirts of MexThroughout the world the masses set of workers in the same industry, It is a crime that tens of thousands both Mexico and the United States.
Emma Goldman, who exerted berself all prisoners in the city jaits were ico City. Other points, such as Zo are calling for deeds, not words; for thereby helping defeat one another We ourselves considered that it pointfrom in wage wars. Moreover, the trade of hungry, cold, deeply degraded huso actively and effectively on behalf set at liberty. May 20 we reported quiac and Tulmiac, had been levied bread in the stomach not talk ed to the fighting capacity of a bumliving in Moscow, of the Mexican Revolution during her that 500 Federals, with six machine on for arms and provisions.
the tribune; for actual well being, unions aid the employing class to mis man beings are ber of rebels whom Madero could not recent visit to Los Angeles, is contidother artillery, had here and now.
atguns and With this world wide lead the workers into the belief that while I, with a few thousand others, control But we are simple people, uing the good work with unabated tempted to retake the city, but they MICHOACAN This state close movement the Mexican Liberal Party the working class have interests in have tenderloin and sturgeon for dinwho do not fish for Totes. Therefore, ner, and cover horses and, floors with zeal We have just received a remit were defcated with heavy loss, miries to Mexico City has shown great ac is aligned. Events have forced it to common with their employers.
we have no inducement to ring in fulblankets and carpets. Tolstoy. tance of sixty dollars from her, being laid by the rebels proving most de tivity and continuous rebel victories. Aght in the front rank, and there it These conditions can be changed some praise of democracy at every the sunt realized by special collections and the interest of the working class structive. Prior to this second at May we noted that the officials had will continue to fight.
crook and turn.
Until the natural resources of Mex upheld an organization taken up at three lectures, one in tack the rebel forces had withdrawn fed from Tacambaro, and that Hue The rich will do everything for the Fresno and two in San Francisco. rom Parras and marched, to the tano, Coyuca and Punarabato had ico have been restored to the people, formed in such a way that all its poor, except get off their backs.
It has been in the power of the The story next week for their free and equal use, the Mex members in any one industry, or in Moreover, she is keeping the subject number of 700, on Viesca and San been captured. Tolstoy. Appeal to Reason, which boasts alive as she moves North and East, Pedro, which they captured, The was that a new and large band of in ican Liberal Party will not lay down all industries if necessary, cease work that it has added 40, 000 to its subwhenever a strike or lockout is on in both from the platform and by the ex. federals also were defeated in an at surgents had taken La Piedad Caba its arms. For freedom battle once begun. scription list in Los Angeles County We applaud this resolution of the any department thereof, thus making tensive correspondence she carries on tempt to take back the latter place. das, where they released all prisoners Bequeathed from bleeding sire to son, alone, to do on a large scale the work habitually.
Two new rebel bands took Villa de and burned the public records. The Mexican Liberal Party and seek to an injury to one an injury to all.
Though baffled oft is ever won.
conservative motto, Instead of the we conscientiously endeavor to do Wm. Thurston Brown, who spoke 80 Cos and burned the public records. following week found Jilotlan besleg render it more effective by enlisting. Byron. from week to week. Had it chosen An: the co operation of the world wide fair day wage for a fair day forcibly for Mexico while lecturing in Matamoros was taken by a force of ed by a force numbering 600.
the better part it could have educated Los Angeles, is on a tour that will em300 and La Esmeralda by one of 200 other force of about the same size army of revolt. We appeal to the dis work, we must inscribe on our banthe large following it perpetually adthe All governments, the despótic and revolutionary watchword, brace the principal Northern cities. He rebels. At Agujita the mine work captured Yurecuaro and burned the inherited of every nation and to all ner the liberal alike, have become in oux vertises into the profoundly funda also has assured us of his constant and ers rose successfully. Many hacien municipal palace. The town of Au who instinctively rebel against hu Abolition of the wage system.
Three new man slavery.
It is the historic mission of the time what Herzen has called so aptly mental difference between economic cordial support.
das raided, The culmination of a gamacutiro had fallen.
revolution and the empty political asmonth news came with the seizure gueriila bands were reported as ac The Mexican Revolution must go working class to do away with capi a Jenghis Khan with telegraphs. pirations which have filled Madero of the important city of Torreon, in tive.
on until it has won for the people eco talism, The army of production (Tolstoy. RALLY IN FORCE!
bead, and for which he is content to which many lives were lost. To Be Continued. nomic independence. Its success will must be organized, not only for the Do not forget the social to be held sacrifice his nation. This it could DURAXGO Here also the fighting clear the road for the advance of all every day struggle with capitalists. Without exalting self and debasing by the International Committee of the have done and this it was its duty Its failure will mean a set but also to carry on production when others; without hypocrisy, lying, prinations.
has been of the bitterest kind. Our Mexican Liberal Party Junta Sunday to do; for it knows well that the Buchave been back full of suffering.
capitalism shall overreports begin with the capture of CROWDED OUT sons, fortresses and killing, no power cess or failure of the economic revoevening, June 4, at Itallan Hall.
By organtzing industrlally can arise or hold its own. Tolstoy. Cuencame by 300 rebels, who burned At present the workers of other thrown.
Admission will be 15 cents, and lution The Army of Discontent is un nationalities do not grasp the situa we are forming the structure of the in Mexico means EVERYthe public buildings and records, THING not only to the workers of good time 18 promised, Brrangements Nine other towns fell that game week. fortunately crowded out this week, tion.
They must be brought to un new society within the shell of the for short speeches, songs, dancing, etc. No question is settled until it is setMexico, but to the workers of the having been made. Get acquainted and The ensuing week we reported the which we regret all the more as the derstand it; brought to comprehend old.
Knowing, therefore, that such an tỉed right, say the reformers. Ther world. No one, with the experience federals as having been badly defeat radical press is showing Itselt more clearly that the success of the Mexthese men have had in the social at the same time help the Mexican ed at Nazas, after a hot fight, and sympathetic than ever. We shall give ican Revolution is of the utmost im organization is absolutely necessary they indorse Madero, who would leave movement, can doubt that for one Revolution, to which all the profits of the evening will go.
also near Gomez Palacio, where there. full space to this department next portance to them collectively and in for our emancipation we unite under the Mexican peasant an eternal slave moment.
to the land and money monopolist!
had been a great concentration of in week.
dividually; brought to see that it the following constitution, Madero! Pooh!
as a more OWA more were a 31 only by