Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-18
CARRANZA|S
FIGHTING TO
FREE: SERFS
OF MEXICO,
III: ASSERTS
CoostitutionaIist Leader Tells
How His Triumph Over Huerta
viii Bring Both Peace and
Prosperity to Troubled Nation.

Preside, TEXAS, Jan, 1.-THE
osoDle Of Mexico want to shake off
the weight of feudalism and serfdoln
The United States should be the first
country in the world to come to their
assistance and bid them godspeed in
,bsfr reach for liberty"
This statement was made by Cen
eraI Carranza, leader of the revolu-
fionists in Mexico, to a wealthy Amer
lean ranchman, who has just returned
from the headquarters Of the Consti-
,utlonalists.
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
muultion and thus very quickly es-
tablish order in Mexico.
What | desire above all things,
said General Carranza, rs to see
na3ce restored and the great work of
developing the untold riches of the
renubic go forward without Interrupt
ZION.
Wanton Cruelty Is Denied.
Reports of atrocities and cruelties
pracuced by the Constitutionalists
mon innocent nonCombatants are
largely fiction. Minor offenses
AGAINST the rules of civilized warfare
have been exaggerated out of all pro-
portion to 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,
10 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 Patriotism"
4 can not conceive of any patriotic
impulse which characterizes the ends
Of Huerta and his followers. He is
guided by no ambition TO raise the
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
thrift among his people. He is con-
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 NO intelligent enough TO
govern themselves.
"On the other hand, we stand for
everything in government that Huerta
opposes. The Constituencies 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
stitutiOns and the extension of the
popular rights we would secure 10
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 education.
Battle Is for Democracy"
The Constitutionalists seek the de-
yelopment of tn country along order
"! peac' III lines and the charging
Of the opportunities of the people %
further their own advancement-col-
lectvely and idually-materiall
morally and intellectually. The Con-
su.utionalists would make the great
poaE OF the people equal sharers IN