Mexico’s Two Indian Wars

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 20, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 38.

Mexico’s Two Indian Wars

THE Mexican Government, at the present time, has two Indian wars on its hands, one in the Northwest, among the Yaqui tribe, and the other in the Southeast, among the Yucatan Indians. With the Yaquis, it is a quarrel over the possession of their land; with the Yucatans, the quarrel is over the payment of internal revenue to the Mexican Government on the manufacture of liquor and other products. The last-mentioned quarrel is causing much distress among the laboring classes, who dare not enter the forests to follow their accustomed occupations among the forests of precious woods with which the country abounds.