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-America Asked
to Help Rebe|s-Barbarity of
Followers Denied by General.

Preside, TEXAS, Jan. 1.-THE
| people of Mexico want to shake off
the weight OF feudalism and serfdom.
The United States should be the first
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 revolu-
| 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
correct point of view he would be
permitted to purchase arms and am
munition and thus very quickly es-
tablish order in Mexico.
What | desire above all things"
, said General Carranza, "is to sea
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 fiction. Minor offenses
| against the rules of civilized warfare
have been exaggerated out of all pro-
portion 10 their gravity. While I'M
doubtedly there have been a few ex-
cesses, the army has been exception
ally free from the practice of wanton
cruelties and destruction of the prop
erty of noncombatants
we are fighting 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 country's
progress by the peaceable and orderly
| development of its resources.
"Huerta Without Patriot sr,-
Il can not conceive of any patriotic
| impulse which chara cterizes 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 or
OF the establishment OF free, stable.
representative institutions. He enter
tains no scheme for the general diff
sion OF knowledge and the value OF
. ~ Ii
tent with the status QUO and deter
mined that the old order OF things
shall prevail, with the declaration on
his lips that the people of Mexico have
never had democratic government and
that they are MT intelligent enough to
govern themselves
On the other hand, we stand for
everything in government that Huerta
opposes. The Constitutionalists stand
first for government by the great body
of the Mexican people. Huerta favors
continued government by the classes.
Through the establishment of free In
situations and the extension of the
popular rights we would secure 10
McAlSO COHSlllullOHdl ONSrLHlenI anu
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 education.
Battle 10 for Democracy"
THE Constitutionalists seek the de-
velopment Of the country along order
ly, peace .ul lines and the enlarging
of the opportunities of the people 90
further their own advancement-col-
lectively and ndividually-msteria
morally and Intellectually. The Con-
stitutionalists would make the great
body of the people equal sharers IN
the growth and prosperity OF their
country by making them owners of
the acres they TIL and by opening up
to them opportunities for self-ad-
vancement along industrial lines. thai
in time they might become masters of
their own Industries rather than re-
main forever the servants of others.
Huerta stands pledged to the perpet-
uation of the present system of ex-
ploitation of the country's labor and
resources"