File No. 812.404/98.
Vice Consul Davis to
the Secretary of State.
No. 580.]
American Consulate,
Guadalajara,
August 30, 1915.
Sir: I have the honor to say that I am
herewith enclosing protests of Catholic women made to General Obregon at
Mexico City, and
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of
Guadalajara to Governor Berlanga against Catholic persecutions on the
part of Constitutionalists.
I have [etc.]
[Inclosures—Summary.]
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[The first protest is dated in Mexico City, February 11, 1915, and
purports to bear the signatures of eight hundred women. It is
addressed to “Citizen Alvaro Obregon” and protests against the
“unspeakable sacrilege” and “brutal outrage” committed through the
confiscation of the parochial churches of Coyoacan, Atzcapozalco,
and the churches of La Concepcion and Santa Brigida and its annex
the Josefino College. It asks that the churches and colleges be
restored to the uses for which they were created.
The other protest is dated in Guadalajara, August —, 1915, and,
though no signature is attached, is made by “the ladies of that city
to the Provisional Governor of the State, Manuel Aguirre Berlanga.”
The protest “before the Governor, the Nation and the whole world” is
against:
- 1.
- The blasphemies, profanations and spoliations of Catholic
churches, sacrileges therein committed and the persecution
of Catholic priests.
- 2.
- The free rein given to anti-Catholics and the insults and
calumnies heaped on the Catholics by the official and
semiofficial organs of the Revolution.
- 3.
- The law which forbids them to give their children a
Christian education, a right conceded to them by the
Constitution of 1857 though it was made against the
Catholics.
- 4.
- The numberless executions by shooting for offenses which,
even if proven, would not be punished with death by any
civilized legislation.]
