El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-04-08
WITH THE EXCHANGES

, the presidency Zapata and his follow
! ers, approaching their Importance and
I enjoying the unbridled license OF guer-
7 rilla warfare. were beyond control OF
the government.
The campaign against them has been
a difficult one and there is little evil
dence that the extensive and expensive
opera tiOns in MOrelOs have done more
I than transfer the depredations OF the
: enemies Of the government from that
{ state to the states of Guerrero and
The report from Chihuahua to the
effect that OrOzcO will announce his
campaign as one conducted in favor
OF MI de Ia Barra for the presidency,
may be true but II is not to be sup
posed for a moment that this is done
with the knowledge or consent of Mr.
Dc la Barra- The provisional presi-
dent retired from office. accepting
foreign mission on behalf OF the Ma
derO administration, and we are con-
WINGED that he is returning to Mexico
to lend his support to the cOnsuitu-
rtOnal government
We believe he can be counted upon
to do this, and viii do IL unless il is
rendered impossible by the jealOusies
and undemocratic action of the very
group that should be the first to well
come independent support for the ad-
ministratlOn-
1IELICO-THE PENDULUM SWINGS.
A subscriber sends The Herald a
quotation from an article written by
4
southwestern travelor. in Harper's
magazine 10 years ago, and suggests
that Mexico may be swinging back into
the ways of two or three decades ago
when. as pictured by Lummis, civiliza-
ton had not fully won the fight. Lum-
mis- writes:
Prom a state of anarchy tempered
by brigandage, Mexico has graduated to
the most compact and unified nation in
the New World. She has acquired not
only a government which governs but
one which knows how to govern. and.
contempOraneOusly, a people which has
learned how to be ruled.
only those who seriously knew the
country IN the old days can at all con-
a generation back to the Mexico of now.
Ihere was no touring then. and no
where was travel more unsafe BY eV-
cry country road, even into the very
murdered There were even lady Tur-
pins, and some OF them were
geniuses- There were no railroads. no [
telegraphs. practically no commerce; /
at the bottom OF all no security. Today |
Mexico IS. and I say IL deliberately-the /
safest country in America Life, prop |
ertyi human rights are even more Sc
AS for stability, the record speaks !
LOT itself Mexico had 81 vicerOys in |
Z66 years-nOt very tumultuOus: but IL |
also mas had % presidents, .emperOrs, !
ana other heads In 80 years OF this cen
fury Now, one president for 20 years.
Some VIII say that this is not repub- /
Iican- Possibly not, but it is business.
Among all the mistakes Of foreign
ers as TO Mexico, none is more cropping /
than that which disparages its govern /
ment I do not know anything in his !
tory which fairly parallels these 20 /
years in Mexico. It is not far to remem- 1
Der when there was not railroad in /
Mexico, and when other material con-
ditions were IN proportion The actual /
has 80 railroads, with nearly
1000 miles OF track and everything
that that implies. It's transportation /
facilities are practically as good as
those o. our western states, and the
investment IS far more profitable It /
ls Melted with telegraph lines with /
the cheapest tariff in America). dotted
with postofftces, schools. costly build
lngs for public business and public /
beneftcence. 1t is freer than IL was ever
before with free schools. free speech
free press. There is progress every
Where-material. intellectual moral"