Arizona republican., 1911-08-28
A Traveller Describes Con-
 diti0ns in Mexico
DISGRACE OF THE CEHTURY
Only the Taking Over of the Country by the Unit ed States Can Avert the Bloodiest Happenings of Modern Times.

A IT. Boyd of Denver. representative of the Denver Rock Drill company. | whose business carries him all over
 the world where mining is going on
 arrived at the Ford yesterday MT. Boyd has lately been travelling in Mexico He left Monterey a week ago ! last night and he brought away an | impression that the country is on a seething volcano which will burst into furious activity before the next nation
 al election What will follow will
 make the late revolution with all it's
 bloody scenes and unspeakable atroci-
 ties seem a pleasant affair by com parison.
 Mir. Boyd has been an interested student of Mexican affairs for several years and he believes that the over
 throw of Diaz was the beginning of period of anarchy such as the world has no< witnessed in modern times The Diaz system. had as it was from the point of view of civilized nations, was the only system for the mainte- nance of order in Mexico.
 The fear of being stood up against
 an adobe will and being shot at sun
 rise is not the kind of incentive men should have to good conduct but it Is
 better than no inccntice at all. There is no other incentive for people who
 do not know the difference between liberty and license. That they do not know. is not their fault It is the fault of generations of ignorance and
 oppression The oppression has been removed and the people who had be-
 come more vicious than wild beasts have been turned loose.
 II was one thing to arm them for the revolution and another to take their arms away and leave them peaceful and intelligent citizens. If their leaders were honest and patriotic
 there might be hope but they have
 not been improved by the revolution.
 Madero was able to unseat Diaz
 but the bandit Zapata who was a bandit long before the revolution and whose force was a recognized
 banditti throughout the struggle is able to dictate terms to the govern ment on which his men shall lay tdown their arms.
 As to the result of the election. if
 anarchy should not intervene, Mir. Boyd says the result is regarded as most doubtful. Madero was for a
 long time the choice of the so called
 masses but his strength with them is waning. He has never .ajoyed
 the confidence of the respectable and
 law abiding element but none of the
 other candidates are regarded more favorabIy by that element.
 There are the Maderistas. the Ma gonistas. the adhercnts of Reyes, the
 Catholic party and tine 'Cientifieos' ! to say nothing of numerous smaller factions which want no government at all and who dread only the bring ing about of settled conditions. The | Catholic party is favorable to Madero. though he is not q Catholic but a spiritualist Neither is he a Mexican but a mixture of Spaniard and Portu- guese. The Catholics see in his suc-
 cess a restoration of privileges which
 were withe Id from them during the
 regime of Diaz and which would be denied to them under rule of Reyes and which they could not enjoy under a reign of the MagOnistas and an- | archy.
 The only solution which thoughtful | Mexicans and foreigners see is in | intervention by the United States and | that would mean the permanent ac- | qdirement of the country. It is be- | lieved by Mir, Boyd that the Washing ton government itself regards inter- | vention as the only outcome of the
 trouble in Mexico and it is stated that agents of this government are | scattered throughout the republic ! watching the progress of events. At present. as during the revolution,
 banditti overrun the country. Under | the rule of DiaZ it was impossible
 for the peons or lower classes to se- 1 cure arms but when weapons were put
 into their hands the result was natur- al. Men who had been working on the haciendas for from twelve to thirty seven cents q day, Mex, found it easier as well as more remunerative | to raid the stores and mining camps. Now. that the revolution is over, they