The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1911-06-29
Col. Garibaldi Talks Of
Campaigns and Fighters
Mexican Government
Forces Good Fighters,
but in the Wron6

army, but was much opposed to hay-
Ing me among his soldiers. I served
throughout the war, however, and
when it ended he made me a corporal.
las a private I saw three engage
ments during this campaign, but was
not wounded. The officers were good
to me and thought my father bit Sc
we're In keeping me in such inferior
position. thought so, too, but father
answered when the officers petitioned
him: "A corporal he is and must re-
main, so far as this Greek service is
concerned. A Garibaldi must be Ell
Their in full command or be a corporal ]. ,
In South America.
after the Greek war I went home
to Rome and proceeded with my
studies for six months. I could not
see that they were helping me toward
what had in mind and still have on
my mind, so 1 abandoned them and
went to Buenos Aires. First Of all, I
fancy, wished to see the world, but
1 also wished to see what use all the
things which I had learned in college
were and find out If I could get on
alone. I became a craftsman on the
Buenos Aires and Belgrano Electric
railway, then a civil engineer on the
Nicaraguan railway. It was fine
ground for me to visit, for my grand
father fought nine years in Uruguay
from 1888 to 1847. Presently I began
to organize the young men Of the Par
tida Colorado, the same party he had
fought for. Before I left these young
men gave me a dinner in Montevideo,
at which they made me swear that if
a revolution overlook the country I
would answer the call"
"And did the call Gomez?
ut may some day. It 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 at
tache with Kitchener. It 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
a year and was fortunate, for I saw
eleven fierce engagements. The Beers
were good fighters, but were wrong.
They lost. The government soldiers
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
archy which in the face Of the modern
democratic tendency does not go half
way to meet it. There have been and
there are kingdoms which are so adj
ministered that to large extent they
meet the modern yearning after free
dom. Here was the case Of a repub-
lie which did not. Really, the Mexi-
can republic has been a despotism and
one in which the despot and his follow
ers took full advantage of every op-
portunity their power gave them to
preserve the system by whose favor
they existed.
"Education means destruction to
monarchical institutions; education
means invariably the spread of repub-
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 it been really patriotic strug-
gle?" his visitor inquired Are these
men really patriots?"
1T has been an absolutely patriotic
struggle, and these men are true pa
triots," said Garibaldi. "a few of
them and by no means those least adj
mirable-for the. government down
here in Mexico has outlawed many a
good citizen-are officially outlaws, but
nearly all of them are farmers, trades
men and the like, who, finding it i'm
possible to live in peace and average
security through earnest industry be-
meath the Diaz government, decided to
join hands with the more radical who
had begun the movement and enforce
a change.
There has been tendency, think,
in some American minds to belittle
the advance Of the various South
American nations. 1t is unjust. They
have been folk Of high ideals-these
Latins to the southwark of you
and they have, with their extraordi-
nary revolutions, worked out many
problems much in need of working
out. This Mexican revolt is very
worthy. You Of the United States
should be the first to recognize this"
Again the talk drifted to Garibaldi
himself, to the man who chooses to
spend his time in armed camps or in
the Wilderness
"Like all men," he remarked, IT have
IN aim in life, and that aim involves
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