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The Clifton Record
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Two Infamous Mexican Exiles Both Die In Texas
Pascual Orozco and Victoriano
Huerta, the original "odd couple"
of the Mexican Revolution, were
arrested in southern New Mexico
on June 27,1915, and taken to Fort
Bliss for temporary safekeeping.
By 1910 Mexicans from all walks
of life realized the Porifirio Diaz
dictatorship was on its last legs,
everyone, except the 80-year-old
tyrant who had ruled the country
with an iron fist for 25 years. The
people’s hope for peaceful change
was dashed by the dictator, who
reneged on a promise to abide by
the outcome of a fair and demo
Marc's
Remarks
By Marc Johnson
Would y’all believe that the fust
day of Summer was last Sunday,
the21st? I’m shore!
glad. I'd hate tol
think of it bein’ this I
hot before Summer |
got here.
Did y’all see on]
the news the ter-1
rible thing ourj_
President did during an inter-
view? Aw man! He killed a fly! No
thought fer the safety of the fly. It
was pesterin' him; and he killed it.
Had to move fast; but, her got-r-
done. Fly ended up dead on the
floor and I think one of the aides
picked it up. Now hear this. PETA
protested this terrible murder of
a fly. Would you believe that they
sent him a fly-trap? Now, what the
heck was he supposed to do with
any flies he happened to catch?
. Get real. Get a life. Quit bein’
plumb stuuupid; PETA.
Just seen on the news where
PETA up in Dallas protesting Ca-
nadian Maple Syrup. What! Maple
Syrup ain’t alive; is it? No, Them
idiots was boycottin' Canadian
Maple Syrup because of the Seal
harvest they hold every year up in
Canada. They been accused of
killin’ hunnerds of'em. Would they
not be plumb overrun with seals
if they didn’t harvest 'em? Just
what are they supposed to do with
this over abundance of seals? I’d
sorta lak to know.
1 ain’t never seen on numbers
on the amount of wild hosses
these idiots has adopted and
agreed to care fer. Have you? I'm
gonna bet it ain’t many. They was
instrumental in gittin’ all the hoss
slaughter houses in the U.S shut
plumb down. Now them Europe-
ans got to git all their hoss meat,
which they consider a delicacy, ei-
ther from Mexico, or Canada. I
think that’s right.
What happens to a Ranchers
saddle hosses when they just flat
git to old to work? Do they just
carry them out in the pasture and
put 'em down; fer the coyotes, and
buzzards? Any y'all know?
Well, our Guvimint done sendin’
more rockets to the moon. They
lookin’ fer “ice,” What! Don’t we
got enough ice down here on
Earth? They mentioned tryin' to
see if there was ever any kind of
life up there. Well, if they find any
body, or anything, upthere. I think
they oughtta leave it alone.
We got enough money to do
something lak this? But, we cain’t
fix our roads and bridges rat here
at the house. Reckon somebody
needs to explain this to me. I no
savvy.
I think I heard something about
Pres. Obama thinking about
signin' some kind of order what
would allow the partners same-
sex federal employees granted all
the benefits afforded to all federal
employees. Way I understand it is
that if a man, ora woman, is
shacked up with a Federal Em
plovee of the same sex; they gonna
git'all the benefit’s the Spouse of
a Federal Employee.what was
married would git. Now where in
the world did this piece of Horse
Hockey come from? 1 don’t think
same-sex marriage is legal in
Wash. DC. Ought to not be legal no
where. Period.
If our guvimint is wantin' to
share benefits, we best be lookin'
to our Military to help first.
VA is months behind on pro-
cessing benefit applications fer
Wounded Warriors; and this just
flat out ain’t no where close to
right. Next they ought to take a
close look at benefits fer our
school teachers, police,
firefighters, EMT’s, and all other
Public Servants. Where the money
gonna come from? Reckon just
put on the second and third shift
at the money printin’ plant up
there in Fort Worth. They bound
to got plenty of paper; let 'er rip.
Y’all remember the "dough
nut” hole in the prescription drug
plan? Qid the same bunch of idi
ots git together and compose this
deal about the possibility of
sendin’ out thirty five to forty five
hunnerd dollar vouchers so folks
could buy a different car, or pick-
up? One whaf would git 2 mpg bet
ter. mileage and pollute less than
the one ya got. Hard to believe;
ain’t it? How many folks ya reckon
gonne be buyin' up of clunkers to
take advantage of this “Stimulus”?
Seems President Obama talked
a purty good game back when he
was tryin’to git elected to the high
est office in the land. Now he’s
there; along with his mother-in-
law, beautiful wife, and two lovely
children, and a new dog. Has some
of his talk sorta wandered off
course? Some shore ‘nough think
ft has.
Leader of all nations, and our
military folks, need our thoughts
and prayers.
See ya next week,
Marc at the Gap
This Week
In Texas
History
cratic election.
Mexicans knew in their hearts
that Francisco Madero, a reform-
minded intellectual, had been the
voters' overwhelming choice. Yet
Diaz had the audacity to declare'
himself the winner with a nearly
unanimous mandate.
That was the last straw for mild-
mannered Madero. From his
home-away-from-home in San
Antonio, the favorite gathering
place of Mexican exiles, he called
for the armed overthrow of the
Diaz regime in November 1910.
The poorly planned uprising
was a colossal failure. However, it
did succeed in fanning the flames
in Chihuahua, where Abraham
Gonzales channeled bitter resent*
ment against the local elite into an
honest-to-goodness rebellion.
A thinker not a fighter, Gonzales
put former mule-teamster
Pascual Orozco in charge of mili-
tary matters. In “Fire and Blood,”
his brilliant history of Mexico, T.R.
Fehrenbach describes Orozco as
“a moody, unprincipled, packtrain
operator who had a genius for
guerilla warfare in the mountains
and desert.”
Though only 28 at the time,
Orozco already grasped the ne-
cessity of making do with the hu-
man resources at hand. Among
the many bandits he recruited for
his guerilla force was a cattle rus-
tler and killer named Doreto
Arango, who reinvented himself
as the Robin Hood figure called
Pancho Villa.
Orozco and his ready-made
rebels recorded the revolution’s
first victory over government
troops in late November 1912 and
a month later seized control of
Ciudad Guerrero. He collected the
hats and uniforms of Diaz defend-
ers slain in a January 1911 skir-
mish and sent the bloody clothing
to the dictator with the message
“Here are the wrappers, send me
more tamales.”
Madero rewarded Orozco with
Editorial / Opinions
By Our Staff And Our Readers
The Clifton Record
— Guest Commentary —
Are We Setting Ourselves Up
For A Jobless Recovery?
By Tom Pauken, Cuaihman,
TEXAS WORKFORCE COMMISSION
The Texas unemployment rate
jumped from 6.7 percent in April
to 7.1 percent in May. While the
percentage of Texans out of work
is much lower than the 9.4 percent
national figure, continued unem
ployment claims for individuals
out of work for more than a week
are 175 percent higher than they
were in our state & year ago.
The national jobless rate is the
highest since July 1983, and this
current economic environment
has a more worrisome feel to it
Letters To
The Editor
To The Editor:
It comes as no surprise that an-
other effort is under way to make
Clifton ‘wet’ — only a few short
years after a similar initiative
failed. Initial indications are that
the current effort will be better or-
ganized, coordinated, and funded
than the previous.
If that is the case it makes it vi
tally important that we be con-
stantly reminded of the
devastating social costs imposed
by alcohol upon a community. The
issues will be as they have always
been — the anticipated individual
economic benefit for a handful of
potential resellers gained at the
aggregate expense to the commu-
nity as a whole.
And, make no mjsjake, quality
of life as a whole would go down in
a Clifton that provides easy access
to alcohol — as reflected time-and-
time again in studies directly as-
sociating availability of alcohol
with increased crime, both domes-
tic and random, within the offer-
ing community. (Lest we forget, it
was not so very long ago that a ho-
micide occurred within our little
community. One in which alcohol
played a part. Does anyone really
believe such occurrences de-
crease the more readily available
alcohol is?) ,
Let’s all be ready to see through
and past the coming fallacious
presentations and red-herrings
outlining what a wonderful pana-
cea easy availability of alcohol
would be.
JohnShannon
Clifton
Corrections,
Clarifications
Correction
In a recent story about the
downtown arts event on June 20,
the article erroneously said that
China Wok had provided the
chicken terriaki. It was actually
Weithorns Catering of Valley Mills
that set up in the courtyard.
The Record apologizes for the
error.
than the recession back then.
What is troubling is the sense that
there is no place to hide when it
comes to loss of jobs in the private
sector. '
The job losses are across the
board, with the manufacturing
sector being one of the hardest hit
in terms of layoffs and plant clos-
ings. Moreover, debt levels are
much higher today than they were
back in the early 1980s. A major
reason why this national recession
appears worse — and more per-
sistent — than previous reces-
sions is the higher debt levels in
the U.S.
During the “go-go” years of
what turned out to be a bubble
economy, consumers, businesses,
and most governmental entities
(the Texas state government be-
ing a notable exception) went on
spending sprees as though there
were no tomorrow - and no day of
reckoning.
The credit excesses, beginning
in the 1990s and continuing
throughout this decade have re-
sulted in a “mountain load of
debt.” John Riley of Cornerstone
Investments has cited figures
about overall debt to GDP (gross
domestic product) which should
concern all of us.
In 1981, when President Reagan
assumed office, debt to GDP —
that is, consumer debt, corporate
debt, and government was 91 per-
cent. In 1930, at the time of the
Great Depression, it was 300 per-
cent. At the end of 2008, it was
nearly 400 percent. That is way too
much debt to get this economy
moving again. Moreover, rather
than reducing government debt,
the Obama Administration is pil
ing on more government debt with
a stimulus package designed to
get the American consumer to
spend our way out of this serious
national economic recession.
Our federal budget deficit is ex-
pected to be nearly $2 trillion this
year.
The Bush Administration tried
to engineer a similar short term
fix in early 2008 with a $168 billion
package of tax rebates to individu-
als (including money to those who
had never paid taxes in the first
place).
Are we setting ourselves up for
a jobless recovery? The Bush Plan
didn’t work; and, I submit, the
Obama stimulus plan won’t work
either to get our economy out of
the ditch — and growing again.
Consumers aren’t going to spend
if they are worried — as they are
today — about whether they will
have a job tomorrow, or about the-
very survival of their
businesses. Instead, Americans
are saving again — putting money
away for their own “rainy day”
fund. Personal savings were at 4.5
percent in April and jumped to 5.7
percent in May.
Meanwhile, however, govern-
ment spending at the national
level is totally out of control. With
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these massive budget deficits (and
huge trade deficits as well), don’t
we run the risk of opening the door
to runaway inflation, similar to
what happened to Germany in the
Weimer Republic after World War
I? #
Government cannot create jobs
— only the private sector can.
While the government may seem
to create jobs when it hires people
or buys things, it destroys at least
as many jobs as it creates when it
does so. That is why you need a
vibrant private sector to pay for
and support the public sector.
The number one econonjic i'ss'*
sue facing us today is — how do
we encourage job creation in the
private sector — particularly,
small businesses where most new
jobs originate — and put America
back to work?
The federal government does
not have to spend trillions of dol-
lars it doesn’t have in a vain at-
tempt to stimulate the economy.
Instead, we need to reform our
job-killing, business tax system
which rewards debt while penal-
izing companies that save and in-
vest in order to create jobs in the
United States.
, Under a proposal by Austin
businessman David Hartman, we
would replace our onerous busi-
ness tax system with an 8-percent
border-adjusted consumption tax.
That would level the playing field
with our foreign competitors for
U.S. businesses operating here at
home. We need to quit exporting
prosperity abroad, rebuild our ,
manufacturing base, lessen our \
dependence on foreign energy,
and bring good paying jobs home
to America again. The Hartman
Plan would do just that.
The time for action — along
with a new direction in economic
policy — is now. Let’s put America
back to work.
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quick promotions to colonel and
brigadier general but not a place
in his cabinet. Even after Orozco
and Villa handed him Ciudad
Juarez on a silver platter, he
picked somebody else for the post
of minister of war.
Decrepit Diaz may haw been
out of touch with reality but not his
aides. They forced him to resign
on May 25,1911, and physically put
him on a ship bound for Europe.
A cheering crowd of 30,000 lined
the dusty streets of Chihuahua
City welcome back their hero.
Pascual Orozco was the toast of
his hometown, but in Mexico City
he was viewed with increasing
suspicion that turned out to be
well founded.
Shortly before declaring him
self an enemy of the Madero state
in March 1912, Orozco sent his fa-
ther with an under-the-table offer
to Villa. If the reformed rustler
agreed to sit out the rest of the
revolution north of the border, he
would pay him $300,000 pesos.
Orozco was puzzled by Villa’s
angry and indignant refusal. He
could be bought, as his recent
acceptance of a big bribe from
wealthy landowners showed, and
thought everyone else was for
sale, too.
The Orozco revolt lasted a mere
six months. He was no match for
Victoriano Huerta on the battle-
field or the American embargo on
weapons shipments. Beaten and
wounded, he fled for his life across
the Rio Grande in September
1912.
The corrupt Huerta proved to
be a man after his own heart. The
general who saved Madero from
Orozco ordered his back-street
execution on Feb. 22, 1913, and
took his place.
As the price he had to pay for a
return trip to Mexico, Orozco
sided with Huerta. United in their
fury over the coldblooded murder
of Madero, all the rival factions put
aside their differences to drive the
usurper and his lap dog from
power. By January 1914, Orozco
was back in the United States and
six months later Huerta joined
him.
The two former foes met in New
York City in May 1915 and plotted
their comeback. But their arrest
that June by federal authorities
put a stop to their pipe-dream
plans, and after a short stay at
Fort Bliss, the pair was released
and restricted under house arrest
to the city limits of El Paso.
Orozco vanished on July 3 and
for eight weeks was the subject of
a Southwest-wide manhunt. On
Aug. 29 a posse of federal mar-
shals, deputy sheriffs, Texas
Rangers and cavalrymen tracked
four suspected horse thieves to
Green River Canyon in the Van
Horn Mountains. Not until the
shooting was over did they realize
they had killed Pascual Orozco.
Victoriano Huerta also died on
Texas soil but not under such dra
mafic circumstances. He sue
cumbed to cirrhosis of the liver in
an El Paso jail five months after
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July 4th Has A
Vivid Memory
The Freedom We Won Is Still The Freedom
We Must Continue To Fight For
By Peter Stern
SPECIAL TO THE RECORD
July 4th 1776 is the victorious celebration of the American Revolu-
tion, when the King of England’s oppressive rule was overthrown by
American colonists.
Today it’s good for Americans to remember that time period and
the real reason we broke away from such an autocratic ruler:
• “No taxation without representation” means you can’t be taxed
without fair representation and agreeing to it
■ Freedom of speech
■ Freedom of religion *■
• Freedom to become educated and to do whatever you want to
do as long as it’s legal
■ Freedom to read whatever you want to
• Freedom to buy a home and not lose it to foreclosure due to
sky-high property taxes and a depressive economy
■ Freedom to run for political office without having to pay astro-
nomical fees to do so, nor by being bought out by wealthy special
interests
• The new American government of the Thirteen Colonies would
refuse to go into the sort of debt that the George W. Bush and Barack
H. Obama administrations undertook for the Iraq and Afghanistan
wars and reconstruction — $300 Billion!
■ President George Washington believed in tending to American
needs with a more isolationist policy regarding our world neighbors;
perhaps he was on to something
• Veterans of the Revolutionary War were t^ken care of by the
new American government; our government neejds to step up and
do the same
American patriotism was for wealthy, middle class and poor
alike.
On July 4th it is important to remember why Americans really
celebrate this event in our history and it is equally important to re-
call the reasons we decided to separate from England and the King’s
autocratic rule — including the oppressive taxation prevalent dur-
ing those times for the King’s special interests.
We must remember and honor our Veterans who continue to die
to protect America from its enemies and that our tax dollars must
go to provide returning Veterans with the services and health care
programs they need to be well and to continue to be productive mem-
bers of our society.
Lastly, we must ensure that our forefathers didn’t fight and die in
vain.
Wemiust ensure that our government never loses sight of the fact
that our officials are in their positions as representatives “of the
people, by the people and for the people.”
These days it appears that our President and Congress constantly
must be reminded of this fact.
(Peter Stern of Driftwood, Texas, <pstern& austin.rr.com>, a
former Director of Information Services, university professor and
public school administrator, is a political writer well-known and
published frequently throughout the Texas community and nation-
wide. He is a Disabled Vietnam Veteran and holds three post-gradu-
ate degrees.)
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