Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1913-12-12

AAtlHunf VIC nAt ANt NnNHl VlOnnf DEhanHt
In no other way can our neighbors. to
whom We would wish in every way to
make proof OF our friendship, work
out their own development in peace
and liberty. Mexico has no govern
ment. The attempt to maintain one
at the City OF Mexico has broken
down. and mere military despotism
has been set up which has hardly more
than the semblance OF national author
ity. II originated in the usurpatIon
of Victoriano Huerta, who, after
brief attempt to play the part OF con
stitutional president, has at last cast
aside even the pretense OF legal right
and declared himself dictator. AS a
consequence, a condition OF affairs
now exists in Mexico which has made
Il doubtful whether even the most
elementary and fundamental rights
either of her own people or of the
citizens of other countries resident
within her territory can long be sue
cessfully safeguarded, and which
threatens, II long continued, to im.
peril the interests Of peace, order and
tolerable life in the lands immedi-
ately to the south OF us. Even II the
usurper had succeeded in his purposes,
in despite OF the constitution of the
republic and the rights OF its people,
he would have set up nothing but a
precarious and hateful power, which
could have lasted but little while.
and whose eventful downfall would
have left the country in a more de-
plorable condition than ever But he
has not succeeded. He has forfeited
the respect and the moral support
even OF those who we're at one time
willing to see him succeed. Little by
little he has been completely isolated.
BY a little every day his power and
prestige are crumbling and the col
lapse is not far away. We shall not.
believe, be Obliged to alter our pol
Icy Of watchful waiting And then,
when the end comes. we shall hope to
see constitutional order restored in
distressed Mexico by the concert and
energy of such of her leaders as pre-
fer the liberty OF their people to their
own ambitions.
Rush Currency Bill.
turn to matters OF domestic con.
Germ. You already have under con.
sideration bill for the reform OF our
system OF banking and currency, for
which the country waits with impati-
ence, as for something fundamental
to its whole business life and neces
sary to set credit free from arbitrary
and ortihclal restraints. need not say
how earnestly hope for its early en-.
actment into law. take leave to beg
that the whole energy and attention
OF the senate be concentrated upon II
till the matter is successfully disposed
not needed-that the members Of that
great house need no urging in this
service to the country
/ present to you, in addition. the
urgent necessity that special provision
be made. also for facilitating the cred
its needed by the farmers of the coun
try. The pending currency bill does
the farmers great service. II puts
them upon an equal footing with Other
business men and masters of en-
! terprise, eas iteshouldi and upon III
passage they will find themselves quit
Of many of the difficulties which now
4 hamper them In the field of credit
The farmers, Of course, ask and
should be given no special privilege
such as extending to them the credit
OF the government itself. What they
need and should obtain is Legislation
which viii make their own abundant
and substantial credit resources avail
able as a foundation for Joint, con
certed local action in their own be
half in getting the capital they mus
use. II is to this we should now ad
dress ourselves.
1t has. singularly enough. come tC
pass that we have allowed the indus
try of our farms to lag behind th'
other activities Of the country in iti
development. | need not stop to tel
you how fundamental to the life o
the Nation Is the production OF III
food. Our thoughts may ordinarily
be concentrated upon the cities ant
the hives of industry, upon the crieI
of the crowded market place and thu
clangor OF the factory, but 1t is from
the quiet interspaces of the open val
leys and the free hillsides that w
draw the sources OF life and of pros
perity, from the farm and the ranch
from the forest and the mine. With
out these every street would be 81