The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-08-12
RULE IN MEXICO
NOT UNDERSTOOD
WRITER SAYS NO GOVERNMENT
COULD DO MORE FOR MEXICO
THAN DlAZ RULE HAS DONE.

San Antonio, Texas, Aug. 12.-Juar
Alvarez, a Mexican newspaper mar
who recently passed through this
city en- route to Washington, ID. C..
where he will represent a number OF
Mexican dailies, is of the opinion
that the position of the Mexican gov
eTnment is not understood and that
no government could do more for
Mexico and its people than the Diaz
administrations have done.
The great difficulty with Ameri'
cans and others who have critized
Mexico is that they know little about
the country" said Senior Alvarez.
Others of our judges have lacked
fairness and possibly not a few had
axes to grind. To get correct view
OF Mexico will not be possible if
the standard of some other coun-
try is applied. In Mexico We have
conditions peculiarly our own.
In the American republic the
vast majority of people know the
benefits of stable government
and though they have partisan poll
tics no man would think of lifting
his hand against the administration
his political adversaries have sue
ceeded in getting into power. Dem
ocrats, republicans, populists and
all others accept the viii of the ma
joI-ty in matter OF fact manner
and support the new government
with as much good Will as does the
pany which has created it. No so
in Mexico. The history of that coun-
try-of all Latin America in fact
shows that. There have been very
few elections in South and Central
America that had not a bloody af-
termath
There is the impression that this
is due TO Latin sentiment and spir
it, AS a matter OF fact the Latin is
as orderly as the Teuton, though
at times, perhaps, a little more
demonstrative. The many insurreC-
tions in Latin America are not due
to the Latin, but to the elements
he has incorporated. 1t should be
borne in mind that the Indian
races, which form in many Latin
American republics the major por-
tion of poulation, are as yet in a
stage of transition from savagery
to modern culture and that they
have yet to learn that the will of
the majority is the greatest law
of an organized state. AS soon as
this has been recognized by them
great change for the better will
take place. All this applies to Mex
leo. The silly vaporings of So
cialists and others Notwithstanding,
it is a fact that the Mexican of
Indian extraction is easily msled
by agitators of an ambitious turn
of mind, especially when he has the
taste of political defeat in his
mouth. Mexico today has the very
best government it could have. The
charge that the Daz administration
hna.n Il 10 IN,
may appear true to people not IA
miliar with the country and its peo-
pie; it hardly is to the man who
knows both. Despotism has been the
form of government of all primitive
peoples and if there should adhere
to the Mexican government a little
of it, it is no more than a necessity.
In the United States the Indian is
subjected to paternalsm, and between
that and deSpotism there is diff
ference of degree only, not of kind.
The Mexican government in its low
er social strata is trying to make
socially and economically an asset TO
the community and if in doing that
not all the niceties of democracy
can be observed at all times it IS
wisdom not to do So There is an
element in Mexico-a minor one.
happily-which, if in power, would
undo the work of many generations.
To prevent them from doing this is
a first duty of the government If
it wasn't, the majority would soon
say so.'