The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-10-31

result of the Weakness Of ,,t,t,x ana or /
ninu. or the 0ctogenarfan who. for
one long eenerauon. imposed on the
country a system Of order and o. !
10 its habits and 10 its Instincts It'll
was the dissolution OF a Dofftical.
economical and social organization
which had lived long enough TO de-
stroy its semi-feudal, sefni-patriarchal
wholly chaotic Predecessor but not
enough TO produce 3 successor. Mex
leo was left unprepared and dunn
founded, and it was beyond not mere
~ Mexican, but human wisdom 20 dis
cover and to enforce q Substitute.
tates clamored for fields Of their
own; the worknen Cor wages exceed
ing those given In San Francisco after
the earthquakes the half educated for
public office: the ambitious for power.
and all for wealth and ease without
eXertion for their acquisition or fore
thought for their preservation or
course, these demands could not be
gratifed. MIR. Madero; who was made
President not because he was strong,
but because all others were even
weaker, is or rather was, WE'LL
meaning dreamer who had thought
that II the despot were deposed and
freedom of election granted, his coun-
try would awake next morning DOVER
! ed with ali the blessings OF civfliza-
z e%SAA eAaAN OAOSAA9 n0cIlls WHICH, OlncL
lands had scarcely yet attained after
centuries OF sustained and disciplined
EFFORT.
Madero Is Weak and Despised.
Under him the disorders, which
had overthrown Diaz, continued and
increased in geographical range and
intensity. The very bands which he
himself had taught that authority
could be defied. resisted his feeble
effort to restore a semblance Of order
al MAJ ftsffr -.
country and in destroying property
made all industry impossible. These
bands, this discomfort have no COM
mon chief. Organization or common
object other than defiance OF all au-
thority and more or less disguised
plumber. The Mexican army is mere
ly the remnant of that which once
owed allegiance to Diaz. 1t is weaker,
more helpless, more unenterprising.
; more inefficient than ever. 1t sup
ports the nominal President whom it
hates and despises as q civilian who
overthrow its military chief and idol.
Di3z, and revealed its worthliness, be-
cause he is nominally chief of state.
and no one of its own leaders has
; sufficient prestige to enable him to
WELD authority over the others.
The workingmen are Socialists often
without knowing il.
Patriots Without Stamina.
The wealthy and the enthusiastically
tOuCalSO-lSW OF them are educated
in any other sense-at the first sign
of personal danger, leave their homes,
abandon their civic duties, and by the
thousand seek refuge in distant cities
or in the United States. They exhaust
the resources of even the sonorous and
stately Spanish language in magnilo-
iquent declarations about ideals coun-
try. race and other lofty sentiments.
until credulous listener would be-
lieve that Sir Philip sydney was a
souiless clod in comparison, bur no
one of them has ventured to shoulder
a musket in defense of his professed
ideals or even of his material possess
sions.
Meanwhile, three-fourths OF the
Americans. leaving behind them the
! fruits OF many years OF effort, and
! have fed the country A. least iStv
| thousand Of our countrymen. who two
years ago, were actively and pros
perously employed in Mexico. are now
> factories are either shut or closing.
been dismantied and the lover qa Classes ssSe
/ either weaned or barred from labor,
| ger and sometimes actually suffering
/ from IL. The national, social, economic
and personal Generalization spreads
and intensines 1t is not ruler that
Mexico lacks. but a character and
civilization that will make the best
OroEco and zapata symptoms.
Orozco Zapata and the countless
| other generals" OF Independent and
/ irregular hordes are not causes, but
symptoms, of the universal disorder
1t exists in the minds OF all and they
but interpret IL into acts. Our coun-
trymen who remain amid this maei-
strom occupy a position which is com
posite of that OF a Jew in the Middle
! Ages and that of a white man in
negro instruction. They are hated.
envied and despised. The Mexican
really thinks that he himself is inf
nitely more civilized. cultured. better
bred, courageous. admirable and
formidable. In sober truth, he is gem
orally better hammered
There is no health. strength, cohe-
renee or vitality in all the land. and no
physician there. The grave OF one up
rising Will be the nursery OF another,
and so on until a miracle second
and even greater and purer Diaz--or
eXtraneouS force restores order and
protects repose in which a real civili-
cation may generate and grow into
| self -sufficing vigor.