Imperial Valley press., 1914-05-09
IN
MEXICO SEES THINGS

ed correspondents Of leading American
newspapers to be his guests, General
EUcv5a received them with great atfa-
b.Iity at The National Palace and made
q speech in which he described the
condition of his country, as he saw
it especially giving his opinion of the
rote's. He then offered them cham
pagHe and cigarettes.
Copies Of the speech Of the dictate,
reached here today. Huerta said, III
part:
The territorial extent of the re-
public, it is said by statisticians, is
approximately two million square kilo,
meters in extent.
The revolution of three years ago,
which is called that of 1910, was not
started by the present government
The present government, gentlemen OF
the press, is only q consequence. il
is nothing more than result, as
mathematicians would say, of the revo-
luton of 1910 and the rebels, who
strictly are not rebels because a rebel
is so called when legally and accord
irg to the law. he opposes the mis-
rules of the constituted authorities,
thest rebels, l say, are those who are
fighting in the zone which | indicate
as follows: Part of the Sonora. part
of Chihuahua, in the small zone OF
TamauEpas, in these small zones
marked A, B, c and D.
They are rot rebels, gentlemen
because rebel is a man of principle
man Of ideals, man who wishes
to improve moral conditions. Men such
as these are the true rebels but those
whom | have indicated are not since
they assassinated pacific persons, arS
without respect for The family homo
or the property Of anyone but burn.
destroy works of arts which cost large
sums of money without any other aim
than that of making themselves feared
ard commit depredations without end
as they have just demonstrated by
assassinating without any cause, one
of the most distinguished foreigners
who was patriarch of the northern
frontier, and these men who commit
such depredations, who violate women,
and in word, do not respect the
lives. or better said. neither the honor
nor the lives nor the properties OF
the rest, they are not rebels but ban
dts.
Therefore, the government Of the
republic is determined to comb and
in the least possible time, to exter-
inmate their revolution, whatever may
be the elements upon which it counts,
availing itself of the resources which
it has on its side. The government
Of the republic has 100000 men in the
federal army, and $4,000 men among
the troops which depend upon the
state governments and the ministry Of
gobernacion. Thus, then, the govern
ment of the republic has about 25O,-
600 men with which to combat these
bandits, who have no other aim than
that Of. desolat;ng and discrediting the
country.
"This map represents the republic,
and there, where those letters are,
is region which is depopulated. For
you know that Sonora has 265,0OO in
habitants. 1t is that immense extent
which is marked with the letter A.
Chihuahua, which is marked with the
letter B, has less than $4,000 inhabi
tants, and the territory indicated by
the letter c, although rather thickly
settled in the southern part of the
zone indicated by that letter has not
as many as 100000 inhabitants. Sina-
loa has 10000, of whom 10000 are
in the rebel portion of the state.
Prom this it will be seen that the
sum total of the rebels is a million
and q half. supposing that all inhabi-
taats Of the regions indicated are reb-
els-but they are not all rebels for
there are many counterrevolutionist
this number is small when it is
taken into consideration that the last
census shows the total population of
the country to be between fifteen and
sixteen millions.
Z "The country really has from fifteen
to seventeen millions. Now gentlemen,
you can say to your families and to
those whom you represent, who Mex
leo and the revolution are. The rcvo-
luton is composed Of forty to fifty
bands Of bandits who devastatc in
violation Of the laws. On this account
the government makes no terms, nor
will it ever make terms with such
bandits, for an authority, or what is
the same thing, the law. never makes