Mexicans Hostile To Americans Now.

New York Times 100 years ago today, May 11, 1913:
Feeling in Capital Aroused by Our Refusal to Recognize Huerta.
400 DEAD IN SONORA FIGHT
Federals Driven Back Upon Guayamas with Rebels at Their Heels — Parral Is Captured.
Special Cable to The New York Times.
    MEXICO CITY, May 10.— The newspapers of the capital devote considerable space to the declaration of President Huerta that Henry Lane Wilson no longer has official standing as an Ambassador here because the American Government has refused to recognize the Huerta regime. Some bitterness is shown against the American Government in the editorial comment.
    El Pais, the Catholic organ known to have pro-Government tendencies, comments on The New York Times's editorial, which it calls "unjust." El Independiente, the Felicista organ, has an editorial under the caption, "An Affront for Yankee Pride," which takes the stand that Washington believes Huerta will fall, and is unwilling to allow him to obtain money with which to resist American intervention.
    All the papers say that diplomatic relations are practically at a standstill. Communications between the Embassy and the Department of Foreign Relations are still being exchanged, but they deal simply with routine matters. No important problems are being dealt with.
    The feeling toward Americans in public is rapidly becoming contemptuous. No demonstrations are made against foreigners, but they are expected if recognition is not granted. There has been a notable increase in public confidence in Huerta in the past week. It is now believed generally that he will be able to handle the situation.

    WASHINGTON, May 10.— If the de facto Government of Mexico has submitted any ultimatum to Ambassador Henry Lane Wilson at the City of Mexico as to the action of the Huerta Government, no trustworthy information of it, official or otherwise, has yet come to the State Department. Secretary Bryan said this afternoon that the situation between the two countries remains unchanged. The present Government of Mexico will continue to be treated as a de facto Government, but it will be a constitutional Government, representing the will of the people of Mexico expressed by their suffrage that will receive recognition. The President and the Secretary of State are agreed in this, and cherish a hope that the attitude of the United States toward Mexico may prove of advantage eventually for the development of a free republican form of government there, just as recognition proved helpful to China.
    Protests against lack of protection to American property were made to Secretary Bryan to-day by Representative Hamilton of Michigan in behalf of large ranch interests. A protest by the ranch owners, dated May 6, said:
    "We have been without protection the last two years. Our men have been held for ransom, our horses have been stolen, our cattle stolen and driven off in large numbers. There is no law and no respect for American life and property.
    " The Polomas Land and Cattle Company, our neighbor on the north, paid $5,000 to get its foreman released last Fall, and had to pay a heavy ransom again last Saturday, May 3, to get its bookkeeper released. If the United States Government is not going to protect American citizens in a foreign country, their lives, and their property, it should at least publish this fact broadcast to protect a great many small investors from going into a foreign country.
    "We have been held up continually by the Mexicans for every piece of work we have wanted to do on our ranches, and had to pay them thousands of dollars in gold to be allowed the privilege even of branding our calves. Apparently this Government absolutely has forsaken its citizens in Mexico. There is no law, no order in Mexico. We are not asking for intervention, but for protection."
    Salazar, a rebel chief, is said by the ranch owners to have $800,000 in American banks, extorted by ransom and pillage.