Barbarous Mexico

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BARBAROUS MEXICO

BY

JOHN KENNETH TURNER

CHICAGO
CHARLES H. KERR & COMPANY
CO-OPERATIVE

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CONTENTS.

chapter page
I. The Slaves of Yucatan 9
II. The Extermination of the Yaquis 37
III. Over the Exile Road 49
IV. The Contract Slaves of Valle Nacional 67
V. In the Valley of Death 82
VI. The Country Peons and the City Poor 109
VII. The Diaz System 120
VIII. Repressive Elements of the Diaz Machine 138
IX. The Crushing of Opposition Parties 160
X. The Eighth Unanimous Election of Diaz 174
XI. Four Mexican Strikes 197
XII. Critics and Corroboration 220
XIII. The Diaz-American Press Conspiracy 237
XIV. The American Partners of Diaz 253
XV. American Persecution of the Enemies of Diaz 270
XVI. Diaz Himself 299
XVII. The Mexican People 324

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

facing page
Slave Mother and Child also Henequen Plant 20
Women Are Cheaper than Grist-Mills 20
Calling the Roll at Sunrise on a Slave Plantation 26
Scene in a Yaqui Bull Pen on the Exile Road 49
Band of Yaquis on the Exile Road 52
Type of "Enganchado" or Plantation Slave 70
Boy Slaves on a Sugar Plantation in the Hot Lands 96
Cargadores with Baskets, Seen Everywhere on the Mexican Plateau 110
Midnight in Mexico City "Meson," Cheap Lodging House 116
Two Groups of Waifs Sleeping in a "Meson" 118
Ready for the Execution 140
Mexican Cavalry and Mexican County Jail 144
Yaquis Hanged in Sonora, Mexican Rurales 148
A Typical Mexican Military Execution, Before and After 164
Diaz and Taft Photographed Together at El Paso, Texas 254
Portraits of Five American Revolutionists 272
Primitive Plow; Mexico Is Backward in Modern Machinery, Not Because the Mexican Laborer Is Stupid, but Because He Is Cheap 328
Wood Carriers, City of Mexico 334
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