Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1912-04-17
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This is the worst Of Madero's
crimes, for the landed interests are
the interests Of Mexico; but it is not
his only one. Even before he became
President, he advised the workingmen
to organize and demand higher wages,
saying that now the atrocities Of Rio
Blanco and Cananea would not be
repeated. The workingmen took his
advice, and the strikes which took
place all over Mexico Immediately
following the triumph of the Madero
revolution, were peaceful and OF
short duration. The strikers commit
ted no violence, and the employers
could not call on Federal troops to
subdue "riots." Wages rose, and the
popularity of the Madero admins
tration with the "obrero" class was
an assured thing; also, it's CORES
ponding disfavor with the plutocrat
class.
The administration continued to
tread upon the sacred toes Of the
powers that be. It abolished the
lotteries and other lucratively- con
Quoted forms Of gambling. It propos-
ed abolishiug bull fights, but the rev.
olution interviewed before this meas
ure could be definitely undertaken. II
cast a wary glance at the Pulque
dragon, but prudently decided to
postpone that encounter-not, how
ever, until the dragon had taken
warning Of what might happen to il
later. 1t did attack the dragon OF
illiteracy, taking up the educational
movement IF Diaz at the point where
the Cientifcos had paralyzed it, and
attempting to extend it throughout
the country. This enterprise has al
so had to be abandoned, owing to the
outbreak Of the reactionary war and
the consequent lack of available
funds with which to carry on so ex-
pensive an undertaking.
It is because Of these reckless rad
icalisms. that the land owners, Cien-
tificos and plutocrats in general are
bending every energy to overthrow
Francisco Madero, no matter what
the cost to the country. They are
the Money Power Of Mexico, and they
have the Money Power Of this coun-
try to help them, so it is very much
more than likely that they will sue
coed in accomplishing their purpose.
When he was only a writer, they were
content to scott at his impractical
Utopian dreams," clubbing him eel To-
co Don Pancho;" when he became a
Presidential candidate against Diaz,
they imprisoned him. Now that he is
President, and they see that, far from
being impractical, he knows exactly
how to set about to realize few of
those Ethiopian dreams," they are
sparing no effort to ruin and misre-
present him.
The worst Of it is that, in fighting
him, the Cientifcos have with them
a great proportion Of the peon class
itself, for they have found it easy
to avail themselves of the ingor-
ance which they fostered for their
own ends. These men know nothing.
They are absolutely illiterate. They
have no faintest glimmering of COM
prehension of the enactments, pro-
posed or accomplished, of the Ma
dero administration. They have no
love for Peace, Law and Order, and
who can blame them? They do not
wish to hear about honest work and
industry. Again, who can blame
them9 And they cannot realize, now
that peace might mean something
different from the peace of Porfirio
Dlaz, that honest work might receive
some approximate reward. They have
arms in their hands; ammunition
comes from somewhere; money comes
from somewhere to pay them twice as
much as Federal soldier in getting;
and, by avoiding garrisoned towns.
and real battles, and only raiding
ranches and small villages (the tao
tics adopted by far the greater part
of these "rebels"), they can lead a
merry life Of it while it lasts. They
are just ignorant and childish enough
to think it can last more or less for
ever:
There is very little probability, or
indeed possibility, that Madero can
save either himself or his country:
but it is sad mistake to suppose
that he represents the plutocracy Of
Mexico, and that the peon is fighting
an intelligent revolution to free him
self from that plutocracy. The peon
plays no litter part in the tragedy
than that of the helpless instrument
OF his own and his would-be emanci-
pator's undoing. The Madero admin
lstration is doomed, but it is the
Mexican CientiRcos, and Wall Street
that will compass it's downfall-the