The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-09-16
MEXICAN INDEPENDENCE DAY UNHAPPY FOR
 MANY FACTIONS

With one revolution ended, but with pleasant prospects of more to come, the Mexicans will celebrate today, with 1 all the joyous abandon of their race, the festival of their independence rom the yoke of Spain. It is a day Of uni versa1 rejoicing for all classes, Save the hated Spaniards, cienti1cos and l Colorados, who at present are making themselves as inconspicuous sS possi- bIe It will not be particularly health full for a cientif1co or 8 Spanfard to show himself in public today, while Colorado could expect nothing less than to provide a corpse for an in dependence day funeral
 l Among the masses of Mexicans of In- dian and mixed blood the Spaniards have never been popular, and they are less so now than ever, especially I among those patriots who shared the fortunes of Villa. In El Grite de De- lores, the Mexican declaration Of in- dependence, appears the phrase, Death to the Spaniards!" This sen l timent found expression every inde- pendence day, when the president read the ssGrito'' on the balcony of the naT tional palace, until comparatively. re- cent years Diaz eventually suppress ed this phrase. but in the reading of l the document before his troops on the last sixteenth of September, Gen. Villa 1 had 1t restored, and his men interpo- lated t.cientifcos' and sCo1orados"
 
 Villa, all spaniards are foes of liberty and the constitution, and those that fell in his power were fortunate to iescape with their lives. The expu1- sion of Spaniards and the cont1scation 1of their property was a part of Villas political program.
 t Don Migua1 Hida1go Costi11a was I the author of Fl Grito de Dolores, which he issued on September IS, 1810. He was a priest, and the leader of the first movement for the independence of Mexico Hidalgo's rebellion failed, land he was executed in 1911. Ten years later the revolution was successful. land the Spanish domination was over thrown by Gen. Iturbide.
 Even more than the Spaniards the Constitutionalists hate the Colorados,
 the man who served under Pascual Crozoo when the latter turned traitor Ito Madero. Every Colorado who fell Into the hands of the soldiers of Vil-
 la and Carranza was promptly execut- led, and comparatively few of them are
 left.
 The cientificos, who also have small reason for Joining in today's festivities lrepresent the small but influential par
 ty who practically controlled Mexico regime Cfentihcos is the name a,p- A piled to the so-caI1ed stscientif1co'' o7
 educated party, who exploited the masses for their own benef1t. The tcientifcos of the Ddaz era were the < lawyers statesmen, bankers, f1nan-
 ciers and business men and large
 landowners. As to the relations o1 Diaz and the cientificos, Henry Baer- Hin, Mexican correspondent of the Lon, don Times, wrote:
 sAlI these cientificos were estinabIt people, friends of his. They had
 founded newspaper, El Inparcial (which was to support his government lone day it called him the Divfnes A
 Don Porfrio grew older, the cientidcoi waxed powerful. Their private for
 tunes hourished most amazingly; they ! helped each other, and while they were always swearing feaIty to Dor
 Porf1rio, they saw to 1t that all thu lgovernors that were appointed shoult
 be cientiGcos One of the req sons for the hostility to Americans i.
 the fact that the people of Mexico be Ieve that the cienttficos are friend1S Ito them and are backed up by them il
 the oppression Of the people. g