Bisbee daily review., 1911-07-18
MEXICO ID PUT
 RENO TOBLUSH
Group of Women Try to ES- tabliSh Most Radical Di-
 yorce System
.NO ABS0LUTEDIV0RCEN NOW

MEXICO CITY, July 17.-Reno's divorce mills will be regarded as second rate and their output insig- nificant when compared with the sys- tenn a group Of women would es- tablish in Mexico for the purpose of untieing marital knots. Since the last week in June womeD's clubs editorial writers, the clergy and others of an argumentative turn have been discussing the daring and rad teal petition of 500 women members Of the club "Amigas del Pueblo in which President de Ia Barra vas asked to initiate a reform in tho laws granting the right Of divorce. bers have been unusually active in their efforts to secure for women the right of suffrage.
 Under the laws Of Mexico absolute divorce Is prohibited. The law pro vides for a legal separation, bat In no case may either remarry.N. In their petition the women character izes the law as unjust. and so so far as to suggest that absolute di- yorce should be granted upon the mere request of either husband or wife.
 That Mexico win provide a divorce
 law for her unhappily wed IS i'm
 probable, but that a considerable portion of her population-nen as well as women-shoHid demand such a measure is nou surprising. It IS indicative of the spirit Of radicausm which prevails and may be regarded as g protest against the laXity with which the marital VOWS are kept by a large percentage of the peo- pie. Since a great majority of the
 Mexican people are Catholics, and
 since the institution of divorce is repugnaut to inc church. it is q fair presumption that the request of 500 women will not find popular ap-
 pToyal
 Cases of separation are not com
 mon in Mexico, and lG Is probable
 that divorce suits would he uncom-
 mon even if a diverse law were
 enacted because of the religious be
 lief held by most of the people. es-
 pecially the women.
 ssa
 The month Of June passed and July begar without any one coming for
 ward to dispute the right Of Francisco ] l. Madero to the presidency. Both
 he and President de la Barra have . repeatedly assured the public that
 all would have an even chance. so
 far as the machinery of the state could make 1t so, but no man oi prominence was willing to permit his name 10 head an opposition tick ct. For a time it appeared prob
 able that General Geronimo TreviuC
 might be induced to enter the race | but this old warrior who had fought
 with Diaz let it be known that h' |, preferred the quiet of his hacienda
 Familiarity with their idol and fac
 tionaI difference have served t'
 diminish the wild enthusiasm whici
 the public at first bestowed upol
 the man who overthrow the Dia
 government, but his enemies, bOtl political and personal, lack the couT age to oppose him. Intrigue is aI old game in Mexico. but playing a politics has for the people Of tn country it's advantages. They ar not familiar with the rules. Al American politician might mak things uncomfortable for Madero. bu his only opponents now in sight ar i those who expend their energies il publishing their denuciatiOns of hiT and his ideas. For a time it wa believed that the Catholic part might prove a menace, but the al 4 nouncemeut Eas unoifcially made few weeks ago that this rarty woul name no candidate. So far Madden 1 has the field to himself and ha made no serious political mistake o
 the Republic.
 senor Madero's advocacy Of th division of the big tracts Df lam is beginning to prove embbarrassine At no time did he ever say that h ] proposed to cOn6scate and apPordol to others those lands nov owneI by Creel, TeTrezas and others, ii ciuding members Of his own samils Dgt that he would dF SC and witbou waiting for the forfnality of his in auguratiotNas president was the belle Of ignorant Indians Of the country They cannot understand tho working of the land tax. but to get somethini Tor nothing is within the scope O fheir comprehension Recently tner came to the capital a deputadoi or indians from Jalatlalco askin. that Masero return Co them ~thei land which they declared had bee taken from their anccstors. The were men who had fought uHde General Miranda during the fcvolu ton. and declared that thc onl reason they had risen in arms wa to regain their lands. When the res olution was over they began cuttiu ood On these lands on tho sid of Mount Ajnsoo and were greati surpised when tiris en off by ardcr 0i the local authorities.
 "Multieoior.~ a weekly publication ! carried recently a series os si small cartoons calculated to shoi
 the relation the provisional pres