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GENERAL ZOGGA Side Light on the Mexican Situation(Hy Upton Sinclair)Come to Los Angeles, rich and prosperous, and hear General Nicholas Zogg tell about Zapata-land, where there i no money at all!General Zogg compels the respect of Americans, because he is, a man of wealth—that is, he was a man of wealth under the old regime. He is cultured and gracious, looks like an Italian, and speaks with u pair of eloquent and slender hands. If I were to tell his own life story in a book, you would call it melodrama, as utterly impossible as his real Utopia. After the first revolution. he became governor of Lower California; and there was a hundred and ninety thousand dol- j lars in taxes due on six hundred I and fifty thousand acres of land I owned hy Harrison Gray Otis, j proprietor of the Los Angeles t “Times.” The old Walrus of the Times” was not accustomed to paying his taxes at home, so, of course, he had no idea of paying them to a bunch of low-down peons. General Zogg was told to collect them; but Otis being a Gringo, and having the Gringo government behind him, it was hard to bring him to terms. So j Zogg came up to Los Angeles, j and laid before Otis a plot for a j counter-revolution. This was the j sort of thing Otis was accustomed \ to paying for, so he put up a j hundred and ninety thousand dol- j lars for arms and ammunition to overthrow Carranza; and Zogg went back to Mexico and reported that he had collected the taxes!
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Everett Cooperative News
Everett, Washington, US
Thu, Jun 13, 1918
Page 3
Full Page
Clipped by
Bernd H.
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