Barbarous Mexico

by John Kenneth Turner

 

BARBAROUS MEXICO

 

BY

JOHN KENNETH TURNER

 

CHICAGO
CHARLES H. KERR & COMPANY
CO-OPERATIVE

 

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

 

 

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