El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-09-23

I tial uprisings; the first one was head
I ed by a distinguished group of men
( at NeracruZ, when DiaZ ordered them
shot Immediately.
''The next revolt was led by Gen.
/ Garcia de la Cadena, who was treach-
| erously killed through Diazs order and
/ instructions, and, on three different
| occasions Gen. Felipe Nerri headed
| other revolutionary movements in the
south, which were put down in the
same way, by the use of the iron
/ hand.
"An those political crimes were
charged up to the Diaz account and
/ when things come to the limit, the
people, as a whole, responded to the
call made upon them by another man,
who promised them their freedom from
peonags and serfdom. This man was
Madero- His platform and promises
We're embodied in the plan of San Luis
PotOsi. 1t is true, this platform was
not well framed political creed. How
ever, 1t did arouse the public feeling
and carried behind 1t almost the whole
country to the battlefield, except the
author Of it. who hid himself in Mon
treal. Canada. till all danger had dis
appeared and the victory was "a con-
sumated fact.
The Diaz Power.
"Diaz built an apparently prosperous
country, but Gen. Diaz did not admit the
forming of political parties and also
killed the public spirit. With the citi-
zens deported from one state to another,
the younger set that opposed the ad
ministration inearcerated, the constitu-
ton Of the republic used as q tool. the
spoilers, the masses were starving from
hunger. The plan of San Luis is not,
by any means, a master political piece,
but 1t suited the circumstance and ne
cessities and the oppressed people went
to defend it with open hearts. In the
great crisis of nations, as always has
happened, the victory falls in the hands
of the crooks. MaderO, backed up by
he alG
but one of them
'Diaz was overthrown and De la
Barra succeeded him This man is one
of the ableSt men in the country, one
of the nOblest diplomats we ever had
and as honest and pure as a snowfall
in the midst of a dark and muddy
storm But Madero, fearing that the
Mexieans would repudiate him once
knowing his ability to hold the power,
did not permit De Ia Barra his pTesi-
Dental freedom to comply with the
while the state OF Morelos and
Lower California were under arms,
Madero was elected, thus making his
election a absolutely anti-cOns
have let. that infraction go, but Senior
MaderO, as piaZ did, imposed a vice
president, Pine Suarez, and put in the
highest official positions his own nu-
merous family, thus making up a gov
eminent whose chief factor was
nepotism. He expelled all the people
tudl Eedlly OkeftnfeW the DlaZ regime
Says Americans Well Paid.
But Madero did not stop there. AZ
filiated with the Wall street interests,
may say, he has sold the country to
its interests; financed by the Hartman
interests, Standard Oil, Henry Clay
Pierce, Charles Taft and John Hays
Hammond He had to pay back what
he had borrowed from them. Madero.
despite having received 81, 1000, 900 pesos
from Diaz in cash. could not pay, for
this cash has eYaporated, and he had
to do it some other way. Morgan,
Speyer and other bankers are going
TO be paid with preferential stock of
the Mexican National lines Thus the
Mexican government shall lose the con-
trolling power in our raiIw avs, the only
operation worth while donated by
LimantOur. Hartman interests will be
paid with the stock of the National
railway of TehuanteDec. the shortest