The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-04-05
peace IS HARD
TO ESTABLISH
Mexican Provisional Govern
ment has Undertaken Big
Task-Some Progress.

Mexico City, April 5.-"Less politics
and more administration" tho watch
word Of Portirio Diaz. has become the
slogan Of the new government. In the
days of Porfirio Dtax cabinet ministers.
heads Of departments and official in
cumbents generally. II they had opin-
ions contrary to governmental policy.
discreetly kept them to themselves.
With the advent Of Madero the pent-
up flood OF political expression deluged
the country. Political orators went to
extremes in airing their views. From
platforms throughout the republic the
acts OF the administration were crit
icised to the point Of vilifcation. Ad-
ministrativc affairs were allowed to
suffer.
President Hureta, in his first public
u~tterances made 1t plain that his pol.
icies were to be Of a different order.
To a group Of newspaper men whom
he summoned to the palace he ex-
pressed his appreciation Of a free press
hut intimated to them that their eff
forts should be directed along lines
OF aiding in re-establishment Of peace.
rather than toward hunting out diff
culties with which to confront the adj
ministration.
"In a word" he cautioned them to
abandon for the moment political
questions and give preference to those
OF ADMINISTRATOR.
IT am convinced" he added, 'that
1t Is not wise. in the present moment
Of u national life, for You to occupy
yourselves with affairs purely political.
but rather with those matters which
have a hearing on the paci1cation of
the country"
Caricaturists also ply their art with
more circumspection. With the per-
son of Madero they were accustomed
to take every liberty, and were per-
mitted to do so. Before President HUI
ne SEN for the editor Of Of the
best known comic wceklies of the cap
ital. Calling his attention to a Carl
cature Of himself, the president said
to the editor:
"1 don't like that, I wish you
wouldn't print my picture that way"
But. Mi. President, l."
Well, that's all. 1 don't want you
to print these c%aricatures because
Well. don't. Goodbye"
The editor departed. and 1t is safe
to say that he will think twice before
repeating the offe. ce.
Undertake Big Task.
That peace would return to Mexico
almost automatically. after the over
throw of the Medero government. was
the belief of thousands Of optimists.
both Mexicans and foreigners; but be-
fore the new administration was a
month old 1t vas evident that 1t had
undertaken a task the completion of
which was by no e simple. A
majority of those who had been fight
arms. but a new army Of rebels arose,
and the Mexican situation was not. un-
like that Of a play In which the actors
had been changed and a few shifts
of scenery made. Enough of the old
|Zapatista army remained under arms
to provide the government with it's
problem In the south, while Governor
venustiano Caranza of Coahuila, and
Governor Pesquiera Of Sonora. fur
take the place of Pascual Orozco's
force.
The movement begun by Carranza
created less alarm in the capital than
did that Of the rebellious executive
Of Sonora. Early in the campaign
against Carranza the government
made some Roadway. but in the north
west the first tricks were taken by the
rebels, who gained a decided advan-
Aqua Prieta. The defeat Of Colonel
Kosterlitzky won prestige for the new
rebels. who had. dubbed themselves
"Constitutionalists."
Confidence in an early s%uffocation
of this new revolt was expressed at
the national palace. and plans were
made for sending al army of not less
than ten thousand against Maytorena,
Pesquiera and Obregon. the rebel lead
ers. but this optimism was not fully
shared by the public.
Refused to Admit Strength.
Friends Of the administration re-
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