i9i63 Elements Favoring War 



light, every possible effort being made to force the 

 hands of the government. The mayor was especially 

 active. To Gallant he said : " I shall be ruined and my 

 town will be ruined if this harmless old gentleman 

 keeps on. We are prepared for war. We don't want 

 peace." 



To analyze the seething assemblage, there were Shearers 

 many refugees who had lost , property or friends in "'^^^"'"^ 

 the Revolution and for whom one necessarily felt 

 deep sympathy; there were "Cientificos," of which 

 group Don Luis Terrazas, the greatest landholder in 

 Mexico — then a refugee from his own imperial 

 estate — may serve as type; there were "Clericos," 

 hoping to recover the vast tracts taken at one time or 

 another from the religious orders — caritativos and 

 contemplativos ("charitable" and "contemplative") 

 suffering alike; there were agents of the great con- 

 cessionaires; and, finally, a motley crowd to whom 

 the outbreak of war would mean the "First Chance" 

 for looting, just as American intervention was the 

 "Last Chance" for Cientificos and Clericos. 



Meanwhile the mayor of Albuquerque and after cdito 

 him the mayor of Santa Fe invited us to meet in his ^'*«?»'^'- 

 city. There was, in fact, no special reason for remain- 

 ing in El Paso, which we found "uncomfortably hot" 

 in two senses of the word. I therefore left on the 

 evening of the 27th, Rolland and Gallant following 

 the next day. In Albuquerque Dr. John D. Clark, a 

 Stanford man, professor of Chemistry in the Uni- 

 versity of New Mexico, took us on a long automobile 

 excursion to the mountains, during which we held a 

 conference. But a telegram then called us to Wash- 

 ington to meet with Rojas, Atl, Storey, and Kellogg. 

 On the way, at the request of Hamilton Holt, I wired 



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