Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-18
Constituencies Leader Tells
How His Triumph Over Huerta
Will Bring Both Peace and
Prosperity to Troubled Nation.
Dictator, He Says, Stands as Bar
to All Progress-Amerca Asked
to Help RebeIs-Barbarity Of
Followers Denied by General.

Preside, TEXAS, Jan. 1.-THE
people of Mexico want to shake eff
the weight of feudalism and serfdon,.
The United States should be the fret
country in the world to come TO their
assistance and bid them godspeed in
their reach for liberty"
This statement was made by Gen
eral Carranza, leader of the revolt
tionists in Mexico, to a wealthy Amer
lean ranchman. who has just returned
from the headquarters of the Consti-
tutionalists.
General CarranZa feels the people
of the United States misunderstood
him and believes if they could get A
correct point of view he would be
permitted to purchase arms and am
munition and thus very quickly es.
| tablish-order in Mexico. a----2s~-lassz~
What | desire above all things
: said General Carranza, lis to see
peace restored and the great work of
developing the untold riches of the
republic go forward without Interrupt
ton.
Wanton Cruelty Is Denied.
Reports of atrocities and cruelties,
practiced by the Constitutionalists
upon innocent noncombatants are
largely Action. Minor offenses
against the rules of civilized warfars
have been exaggerated out of all pro-
portion to their, gravity. While I'M
doubtedly there have been a few eN-f
cesses, the army has been exception
ally free from the practice of wanton
cruelties and destruction of the prop
eTty of noncombatants.
I'VE are lighting for a principle
political freedom and constitutional
government by the people in Mexico
to elevate the citizenship, to raise the
moral and intellectual standard of the
masses and to insure the countrys
progress by the peaceable and orderly
development of it's resources.
"Huerta Without Patriotism"
II can not conceive of any patriotic
impulse which characterizes the ends
of Huerta and his followers. He is,
guided by no ambition TO raise tho
moral and intellectual standard of the
masses. He is pledged to no program
of the extension of popular rights o.
of the adjustment of free. stable,
representative institutions. He enter =,
tains no scheme for the general diff
sion of knowledge and the value Of
thrift among his people. He is cou-
tent with the status quo and deter
mined that the old order of things
shall prevail. with the declaration cn
his lips that the people of Mexico have
never had democratic government and
that they are MT intelligent enough 10
govern themselves.
''On the other hand, we stand ior
everything in government that Huerta
opposes. The Constituencies stand
first for government by the great body
Of the Mexican people. Huerta favots
continued government by the classes.
Through the establishment of free in
stitutions and the extension of the
popular rights we would secure TO
Mexico constitutional government and
the emancipation Of the people from
the ignorance in which they are
stepped. Huerta would add to Their
degradation by denying them the
benefits Of knowledge and educatio
Battle Is for Democracy"
The Constitutionalists seek the de-
velopment of the country along order
ly, peaceful linet and the charging
of the opportunities of the people 20
further their own advancement-coi
lectively and lvidually-materially
morally and intellectually The Con-
stitutionalists would make the great
body of the people equal sharers
the growth and prosperity OF their
country by making them owners OF
the acres they till and by opening 10
TO them opportunities for self-ad
vancement along industrial lines. that
in time they might become masters 81
their own Industries rather than re
main forever the servants of others.
Huerta stands pledged to the perpet
uation of the present system of e<
ploitation of the countrys labor and
resources