The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1911-03-23
The MEXICO CT 81 ':..laa.
THE PRESENT DAY

I'LL uLVkNi Uni
MEXICO CITY, Special.-In the
annals OF Latin-American revolutions
there never has been one abounding
in more features at once peculiar and
remarkable than the one now being
waged in Mexico. In the first place. il
is revolution without a program.
Its leaders protest against existing
conditions. yet they have not offered
a definite plan for remedying those
conditions in the second place. il Is
in nowise a united revolution. There
are a half dozen Centers of activity.
yet in each case the grounds upon
which Il is based are different. and
no leader has appeared upon the
horizon who can unity these various
enemies OF existing conditions into
one solid phalanx of opposition to the
government. In the third place, 1t i,
revolution predOomed to military
failure, for neither the men nor the
munitions are coming forward in suf-
licient quantities to make il really
formidable.
And yet in spite OF all these thinps
II is expected to prove a political sue
cess. President Porfrio Diaz has de-
cided to remedy the abuses against
which II is a protest. II is predict
ed that he will reform his cabinet
removing from IL the men who have
been the stumbling blocks in the way
OF political reform. II is stated that
Vice President Corral, erstwhile his
heir apparent will he removed from
ONCE In answer 20 the public demand.
II is asserted that the scientificos. a
bodN or men who have been more TO
Diaz than the tennis cabinet was TO
Roosevelt will not be in such COM
plete possession OF the presidential
ear IN the future. The Governors of
the various States will hereafter Ice
appointed with more respect for the
wishes OF the people; and the ie.c
pOliticos or rulers OF districts al
CITIES VIII he made responsible TO the
people lower down rather than To or
Meals higher up. Above all. il is
probable that means will be found TO
take the lands Of the republic out
of the hands Of the few feudal barons
VINO now control them, and distribute
them more generally.
Diaz-Firm, Harsh. TyrannicaI.
II is novel sight TO see President
Diaz yielding to public demand. and
it affords different picture of him
from anything Mexico has ever seen.
Beyond all question Diaz has render
ed a great service to his country fn
IeSculnS II from bankruptcy. placing
IL on firm financial footing with n
creolt as good as the average Euro
pean nation, and in giving il a stable
ana, ON the whole, heneficent govern
ment. At the same time ne has ruled
with mailed hand innocent of the
NeiNet glove. With 50 per cent. of
tne people OF Mexico iliterate. and
10 per cent. of the remainder thor
oughly unacquainted with tre princi-
pies OF republican goNtInaaent as
Americans understand them. IL is OBJ
NlouSiS impossible to expect elections
based on manhood suffrage, and easy
al EN 10 ~ 4 l.
cal absolutism is necessary. Diaz has
been hrm at all times, harsh frequent
~ ana upon occasions tyrannical The
present spirit Of concession to the
wishes of the people is seemingly
body.
Chihauhau Ground Down.
The revolution in the territory
south OF California is wholly an eff
tort upon the part OF avowed Social
ISIS 10 set up a modern Utopia. They
would abolish the government and
establish a modern Sociaistic com
munity. The revolution in Chihau-
hau, while headed by Francisco Ma
dero, an avOwed Socialist and called
ny some a dreamer has a different
ground upon which to bid for sup
port The Terrazas family. to which
former Ambassador Enrique G CreeI
now Minister of Foreign Affairs he
longs, owns nearly everything i'm Chi
hauhau, as may be gathered from the
statement that over fifteen million
acres OF land constitutes a portion OF
their holdings. There has been a sort
OF rotation in the office of Governor
IN Wnlch rotation only the Terrazas
family has participated for many
years. Taxes have been forced up to
an lnordinate height and protest al
ways mas served to send them still
higher. That accounts for the trou-
BILE in Chihauhau.
IN the state of Vera Cruz, at Oriz-
aba there is the largest cotton fac
tory in the world, and the trouble
there seems to concern labor condi-
ions more than political conditions.
When certain houses were searched II
is said that great quantities of social
ISL literature. circulated by Francisco
Madero's prOpagandists were found.
In Puebla and other cities farther
south the trouble seems to relate sole
~ to local misgOvernment. While
there is an amount of popular unrest
not 10 be overlooked growing out of
general conditions, by far the greater
portion of all the trouble grows ont
Di local conditions that easily may be
That the revolution will not prove I
an unmitigated evil is attested by al /
most every foreigner in Mexico In /
speaking Of this phase of the matter 4
one of the most intelligent and in
luentlal Americans in the country /
said:
Most Americans, seeing what Diaz /
las done for the republic of Mexico, |
naturally sympathize with him. But |
mere are, and have heen, certain /
lbuses that should have been correct I.
"a long ago. They will be corrected /
low. and although the military end /
Il the revolution will fail, the things /
or which the revolutionists contend |
VII be granted. And the two great /
uestions that the capitalist whose |
money is needed for the development |
I Mexico always has asked, will be
answered. He has insisted always on
1quiring what Mexico would do if a
God, healthy revolution sprang up.
he outcome OF the present move /
lent will answer that question. And