Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1914-06-26
In the Brooklyn Eagle

Of discipline or respect for Villas sub
ordinate Ulcers
After a long talk. yesterday, with a
citizen of Ell Paso, who knows Villa
personally, speaks the same sort of
Spanish used IN Chihuahna and So
nora and understands the hopelessness
Of the Mexican situation, l have but
faint interest In the "a. b. q. media
torsp at Niagara Falls.
General Felipe Angeles, apparently
the favored Constitutionalist candidate
for the Provisional Presidency, is only
another impracticable, like Madero.
Pedro L~ascurain, who has declined to
accept Huerta's foreign portfolio, is a
more desirable man, my Texas friend
declares; but his association with the
usurper will prevent his acceptance by
President Wilson.
The Mexican job Is q long one.
There must be two generations of
evolution and development among the
great mass of the Mexican people be-
fore they will be tit for real democ-
racy.
Madero was correct in believing that
education is the only means for the re-
demption OF his country Had Gen.
eral Diaz, during the thirty odd years
Of his so.called presidency" pushed
forward the cause of education, Mexico
of today would be In a prosperous con-
dition; but, on the contrary, he upheld
all the old superstitions, permitted the
low ignorant masses to be kept in
darkness and never made an effort to
destroy peonage, which Is nothing but
slavery in most objection able form.
The condition of the Southern negros
after the Civil War was much less
pitiable than that of the Mexican
poems, although their ignorance was
quite as great. Villa, for example,
cannot read or write-could not sign
his name until recently-and doesn't
know half a dozen English words.
The same is true of ninety per cent Of
his troops.
What kind Of material are they from
which to make citizens of a republic?
To enfranchise men OF such a be-
ni0hted mentality would be to repeat
the errors of the Republican party at
the close Of the Civil War.
Whether a pleasant task or not, the
United States will have to undertake
the "civiIizationu of the Mexieans!
The job is another Philippine under
taking.
Demagogues in Congress-, now advo-
eating the surrender Of the Philippines
to their native population will have an
object lesson In Mexico before long
that will cause q change of their opin-
ions! The Filipino, attired only in q
breech-cloth, is even higher in the
scale of biological evolution than is the
Mexican Indian! The latter may pos
sess costly sombrero and leather leg
gings which the man of the Eastern
archipelago would disdain; but the
Mexican is more ~ungratefui and quite
as treacherous.
No matter who sets up the next gov
eminent it will not endure without Wis
ible and substantial backing by Amer
lean arms! Such is the opinion of
every person who has studied the
Mexican problem at close range.
4 y
"What is to be done with the troops
now at Vera Cruz?n a retired army
man asked me several days ago. Al
have given many hours of thought to
the subject, but / cannot see how we
meaning the troops under Funston or
his successor-ar to be withdrawn
without confessing a blunder in land
ing them.
There hasn't been any Salute 20
the Flagl
Anxiety exists, also, in their contin-
ued presence on Mexican territory. If
villa captures Zacatecas, marches to
Mexico and o~verthrows Huerta, 1 ex-
pect to hear that he has re-enlisted all
the Federsls still alive and made q