The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-05-27
DIAz REGIME IN MEXICO.

1@HREE YEARS ago Porfirio Diaz, left the
 M City of Mexico. Like thief in the night skulking in darkness shivering with dread of the infuriated mob which for days had been bowling for his blood, the octogenarian Indian fled from the capital where he had so long ruled as dictator. Five days later he boarded vessel at Vera Cruz and departed in- to exile In European banks he found awaiting him vast fortune, of how many millions no man can say, to cheer and comfort him in his latter years. The last words uttered by Diaz on the soil of his native land contained g prophecy:
 Those who will govern Mexico after me will have to govern as did. '
 Since the departure of Diaz Mexican his- tory has been just one revolution after another. That amiable diplomat, Francisco Leon de Ia Barras acted provisional president until the election of Francisco l. Madero, IT., in the -Au- .urnn of 1914 He had no sooner been inaugur- ated than he faced g collnter-revolt headed by Gen. Bernardo Reyes. The latter was arrested by the United States authorities, charged with #.iolating the neutrality laws, and Madero was left free to work out his promised reforms among them the distribution of the great land-s ed estates among the people, unfettered uni Fersal suffrage, popular education and freedom of speech and of the press Surrounded by cunning and self-seeking politicians, the vi sionary Madero failed to put into effect single promise Soon Zapata turned against him and raised the standard of revolt. Tn thes North Orozco became the leader of the rebels, but h betrayed them, and his revolution failed.
 The popular uprisings failed of their pur- pose, hut the plots of the military despots were more successful, and Gen. yictoriano Huerta, conmander-in-chief Of the army, established himself in power, while President Madero, his brother Glstavo, and sylce- President Suarez' were assassinated under the Hey fuga.
 Alive, Francisco Madere was little more than an amiable figurehead a dreamer who lacked the power and force to make his dreams come true. Dead-foully murdered-M -Madero9 became a hero, almost s saint, and the turbu-s lent North rose in arms to avenge his death. To the soldiers of the rebel army the dead presi- dent is Father Madero, Rancho Madero, an ob- ject of veneration, the chief topic of conversa- ton around the camp fires Those who saw Madero in the flesh are men apart, and their. comrades listen in awed silence as they tell over and over again. of the appearance, the clothes the demeanor, the personal traits of the. Laughing saint.
 With the departure of Porfirio Diaz from the Mexican capital the Diaz myth which had been accepted -bsastlle civilized world col lapsed and the dictator who had ruled Mexico for thirty four years appeared in his true light as one who had driven the people from the soil, converted them into slaves, and turned the country over to the exploitation of native and foreign landlords, among whom Diaz and his relatives were not the least. The world has come to know Diaz not as a sssingularly pure and able patriot, but as despot who won and kept power by force who built up a power fiil military engine for the suppression of re- volt and who consigned his political enemies to living death in prisons more terrible than any that disgraced Europe in the dark ages.