The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-07-29
Rebellion Against Monopoly's Slavery

ing exception to the Paadium'S recent editorial
article on the Mexican situation. The Press be-
lieves the troubles Of Mexico caused by "a
fight for power between two or more factions Of
military adventurers"
That turned out to be the case when MaderO
overturned Diaz. Madero reused the poems to his
side in that revolution by promising them that
he would cause the land laws of Mexico to be so
amended as to give them the opportunity to be-
come land owners. Backed by the aroused poems
he succeeded in Kidding the country of Diaz.
Once in power, however, Madero adopted a
compromising attitude towards the poems and
the land question. Madero, himself, was the son
of one of Mexico's greatest landowners. He
eventually allowed his self-interest to overcome
all other feelings of dealing justly with the great
downtrodden masses of Mexicans, most of them
living under conditions of actual slavery, and
threw his influence against real land reform.
Naturally, that course alienated from Madero
the forces that had enabled him to attain the
presidency of his country. He had no other
to take than to rely upon the interests he
had antagonized in his dash for power the land
owning monopolists, to maintain him in his po-
sition.
The poems rallied to other leaders and waged
relentless rebellion against their arch betrayer,
Madero, and the system of slavery and oppres-
sion he now defended. Madero, however, was a
poor tool for the monopolists He was too big a
mark for the poems resentment. And pray,
when was the traitor and betrayer retained
long in position of trust and responsibility by
those who profited by his dirty work?
= Madero was killed by the land monopolists Of
Mexico because, without the poems backing he
poor and weak leader for their In
fact his being the leader of their cause with his
monopolists. A man of blood and iron and inhu-
manity like Huerta more to their liking. And
besides, such change might weaken the insurg-
ents by removing forever of the great targets
for their hatred and undying enmity, Madero.
Call the Mexican peon-nsurgents brigands,
robbers, thieves, murderers, if you like. They
all that and possibly more But they these
things because they have been driven to them
through rank oppression.
If the farmers of our country were deprived
of their lands through process of laws drawn up
by legislators working in the interests of a
monopolist class; if they had to work for the new
owners of their old lands at mere pittance and
could not leave those lands because they were
chained to them through debt system that made
them virtually slaves; how long would it be until
our erstwhile farmers would be in open rebel
lion against such system of oppression?
If that happened in the United States there
would be an explosion of wrath and resentment
that would rock the rock of ages and make the
present Mexican rebellion appear like a lovers
spat!
The land monopoly in Mexico is responsible
for its internal troubles. Our government has
demanded that peaceful conditions be restored.
But they haven't and they won't until the cause
for disturbing conditions has been removed
Taft, as president of the United States, pro-
claimed that the Mexican government forces the
monoposts, should have the right freely to i'm
port and ammunition, but that the insurg-
ents, the poems in rebellion against the ensave-
ment of themselves, their wives and children,
could not import the means of warfare. In other
words every opportunity was given the monopo-
lists to maintain their sway by KILLING OFF
the enemies of monopoly; every possible obstacle
thrown in the way of those who were fight
ing for human rights.
The Palladlums suggestion that President
Wilson should revoke Taft's order and allow the
insurgents to have free access to supplies of
arms and ammunition was offered in good faith
Our criticism of him if he does not do so will not
be founded upon partisan political considerations
We will simply feel that he, like his predecessor.
is surrounded by false advisors and treacherous
agents of monopoly, which is international in its
scope and sympathies and that continuation of
Mexican policy founded, in the past on the
idea of granting the Mexican forces of monopo-
ly the sole right to import arms and ammunition
will be due to misunderstanding of the terrible
basic wrong that is being perpetrated upon the
bodies and souls of millions of poor poems and
their families.
VALUE OF SILENCE
Kansas City Times.