El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-01-22
PEACE URGED BY
SPAIN'S N0TABEE5
Cable Carranza to End Mex
lean Conflict; Poet ChO-
canO Adds Plea.

B. Perez Galdos, foremost living
poet Of Spain, and Jose Echegaray,
spanish dramatiSt of international
lame, cabled Gen. VenustianO Carran-
"a Wednesday from Madrid, SPAIN IN
joint plea for peace. The Cablegrams
passed through "ConstitutiOnalist
consular offices in Ell PasO and Gre
ated stir of interest.
Galdos's message read: 81 wish
that my voice today was the voice OIL
all Spain. It would cry only one Woru
Peace"
Echegaray's cablegram said: The
sons of Spain beg their brothers VI
Mexico to end their struggles with
fraternal embrace"
Both messages were Forwarded TO
Gen. Carranza from the Ell Paso otIlce-
An ODD coincidence was the IdCL
that Jose Santos Chocano, called the
singer of America" on account OL
his verse which is widely read thrOu9H
the Latin-American countries, was III
Ell Paso when the cablegrams from
Madrid arrived. Choeano Is CoIl7
stttutiOnalist' sympathizeT and IS Oh
his way to join Gen. Carranza AT
Culiacan. He was shown the messages
from Galdos and Echegaray and was
asked to reply to them.
ChOcanO Makes Reply.
This is his answer. 'hdy teachers
know that the truest human peace IS
rights of others. America would not
endure Russian peace A century ago
we won our Independence; TO-DAY We
are struggling for liberty. The DIoou
of the English revolution made CIVIL
liberty; the blood of the French reVo-
luton made social equality; the DloOo
of the Mexican revolution viii MAKE
economic fraternity, between that I'D
erty and that equality. There can De
no mediatiOns between a people ana
its assassin; nor transactions between
right and ursupatiOn. Struggle ennODles
man; the peace of the sepulchers rot
him. Let there be peace, but with
liberty"
Chocano is a Colombian by birth, but
he SAYS: 1.-THE world is my country
He IS an admirer of president w llsoll
and a staunch Democrat his poems
and other writings are known all
over South America where ne IS Ihe
Acknowledged leader in contemporary
letters ChOcanO won his literary
lauTels eight years ago when at a
poets contest held in BuenOs Aires ne
carried off the first prize Poets from
all over South America and CenIraI
America took part in the contest.
Ordered From Mexico.
ChOcanO was in Mexico City at Ihe
time president MaderO was murdered.
Huerta, who knew he was friendly TO
the MaderOs. ordered him depOrted as
q "perniciOUs foreigner. The poet
went to Havana where he wrote sew
eral articles exposing the alleged
treachery of the dictator. President
Wilson is said to have commended
these articles as being the clearest
writings on Mexican affairs that he
had read
visit Has Significance.
The poet would not state Wednesday
night the object of his journey to con-
fer with Carranza, but it is said to
have an international significance.
Representing, as he does, in a way, the
people Of South America, his visit with
Carranza is considered important.
Chocano upsets the average notion of
a poet He is a sleek, well groOmed,
clear eyed man, without a curling bow
tie or long hair He looks the pros
porous business man, which he prob
ably is. for his pen has brought him
thousands. His home, most of the
time, is in Paris.