The Coconino sun., 1914-07-03
INTERVENTION |S ONLY HOPE
 F0R THE PEOPLE 0F MEXICO
Zane Grey Says They Are Unfit to Govern Them selves Without Constant HeIp and We Owe 1t
 to Humanity to Stop Butchery and Rapine


 ton in force by all the Govern ments of America, led by the Co., vernment of the United States.
 That was the conclusion an. nounced by Zane Grey in an in- terview with a reporter for the New York Sun. MT. Grey is an author who for years has studied the Mexican situation and who more than two years ago in pub lie interview predicted the very things that are happening to-day and expressed the hope that some means might possibly be found to avert the struggles that have rent the country and doomed thousands of men and women to suffering and death.
 Do you know what the Mexican people really are?" MT. Grey asked the reporter. Do you know they are ninetenths Indian? Think a moment of what that means.
 We are confronted with a na- ton of more than I2 LOGO, ooo- some say they are as many as IS, 1000, ,ooo-of whom ninetenthS are no more civilized than our own red men on the plains. Seven tenths of the Mexican people are of pure Indian blood, two-tenths, say, are of mixed Spanish and h. dian descent and the small remain der are of pure Spanish blood. 1 should like to emphasize the over- whelming preponderance of h. dians in the population, for if we forget them we are apt to think of the Mexicans as people with whom the nations can deal as they might deal with Germans, English men or Frenchmen. And such a thing of course is impossible.
 "The whole State is a mass of savagery, ignorance, indolence and riches, covered with thin crust of civilization. Tbe common peo- pie have been exploited, robbed and oppressed for four centuries. They hate the white man with all stheir strength, and as we are the nearest white race they hate us most of all. Nevertheless it is our duty to lag aside all resent ment and protect them from them selves.
 We owe it to our sense of de- cency and justice to put an end to the carnival of plunder, butchery and outrage that has made Mexico a hell on earth during the last year. And in order that there may be no complaint or ground of com- plaint on the part of our South American neighbors that we are seeking territory or wealth in the afflicted country we ought to ask them to join us in restoring order in Mexico-yes, and in maintain ing order, for it is certain that the moment the strong hand of the law is withdrawn revolution and riot will begin again.
 It is unfortunate that so. many Americans think of the Mexicans as civilized people who have suffered long under tyrants and who need only enough help to throw off the yoke of Huerta in order to establish real republic that shall last. Nothing could be more fantastic than that belief.
 The Mexicans are not fit for government without constant help.  l am no pessinnist, but l am sure that it would require generations of enlightment and training to en- able them to maintain a republic. There is to-day no concrete na- tional idea. The Indians are of various tribes, who have no con- ception of a commonwealth and who are united only in their hatred of the white man. There is not in that country at present any found- ation upon which a self-perpetuat- | ing republic government can be