The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-06-30
Mexican Government
Forces Good Fighters,
but in the Wrong


we're I'm keeping me In such inferior
position. thought 50, too, but father
answered when the officers petitioncd
him: "A corporal he Is and must re-
main, so far as this Greek service il
concerned. A Garibaldi must be ell
thcr In full command or be corporal
In South America.
"After the Greek war went home
| to Rome and proceeded with my
studies for six months. l could not
see that they were helping &e toward
what l had In mind and still have on
my mind, so | abandoned them and
went to Buenos Aires. First Of all,
| fancy, I wished to see the world, but
| also wished to see what use all the
! things which I had learned In college
were and find out II could get on
alone I became craftsman on the
Buenos Aires and Belgrano Electric
railway, then civil engineer on the
Nicaraguan railway. 1t was fine
ground for me to visit, for my grand
father fought nine years In Uruguay
from 1888 to 1Si7. Presently began
| w lhO y'uhb oaSh Va thV a.
tida Colorado, tho same party he had
fought for. Before left these young
men gave me dinner in Montevideo,
at which they made me swear that IL
revolution overlook the country I
would answer tho call"
"And did the call comeT
at may some day 1t was from there
went to South Africa. At first my
sympathies were with the Beers, but
later, acting under direct orders from
my father, I was made an official Mt
tache with Kitchener. 1t was a great
experience, and as I learned more
about the situation I was glad had
been forced to change the side OF my
allegiance Thus I served more than
year and was fortunate, for l saw
eleven fierce engagements. The Beers
were good fighters, but were wrong.
They lost. The government soldiers
J here In Mexico are good fighters, but
are wrong, and they must lose.
!; 1T is merely one more manifestation
of the worldwide movement toward
real freedom. That republic which,
like Mexico, becomes monarchial Is as
certain of its downfall as that mon
, nrChy which in the face of the modern
democratic tendency does not go half
way to meet 1t. There have been and
: there are Kingdoms which are 50 ad-
2 miuiStered that to a large extent they
) meet the modern yearning after free.
!. dom. Here was the case OF a repub-
J, lie which did not. Really, the MeXi-
. can republic has DcGn II deSpOtiSm AMI
;, one In which The deSpOt and his follow
e erS took full! advantage OF every op'
J, rOrtuni'y their power gave them to
r preserve the system by whose favor
i thry existed.
Education means destruction to
J. monarchical institutions; education
means Invariably the spread Of repub
t lican ideas. The strongest possible In
dictment of the Diaz system In Mexico
lies in its definite opposition to the
education of the people"
. A Patriotic Struggle.
|. HAS 1t been really patriotic strug
c gle?" his visitor inquired. Are these
Y men really patriots?"
y "It has been an absolutely patriotic
|. struggle. and these men are true pa
/ triots," said Garibaldl. "a few OF
I them and by no means those least ad
: mirable-for the government dowr
( here In Mexico has outlawed many {
Il good citizen-are officially outlaws, bu
3 nearly all Of them are farmers, trades
Q men and the like. who, finding 1t i'm
O possible to live In peace and averag,
q security through earnest industry be
Y meath the Diaz government, decided t
join hands with the more radical VIII
g had begun the movement and enforc
/. a change.
Q "There has been tendency, think
II in some American minds to belittl
Ie the advance Of the various Sout
e American nations. 1t Is unjust The
n have been folk of high ideals-thes
l. Latins to the southwark Of you
le and they have, with their extraord
It nary revolutions, worked out man
problems much In need Of workin
Is out This Mexican revolt Is yer
- worthy. You OF the United State
N should be the first to recognize this"
Y, Again the talk drifted to Garibalt
,e himself, to the man who chooses
ID spend his time In armed camps or
at the wilderness.
o. like all men," he remarked, 81 hav
or an aim In life, and that aim involve
ly a training not to be found in school
So 1t can be found In part in workin
40 through real wildernesses after VIII;
as is left Of the big game, but such trail
en Ing for 1t is but a poor substitute II
a work upon the firing line in any ju
ry and worthy cause. No schools mai
Is. soldiers as the field does. With diff
as Guilty have managed to secure abo'
twenty -four months OF actual fghtir
at life IN which I have through grei
or endeavor actually participated in thi
n. ty really big battles with almost Q
cry kind OF army. 1t has been a fl
oil. ce-illuminating, splendid"