The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-05-26

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nauce on. We foolish ones. We sought
emf wisdom. neither nave ye found it,
10 and your fathers have sown the
vtrd, We shall reap h whirwind.
1yts il not from of old written, the
u.aes of sin is death?-Thomas Car
III. The French Revolution"
when fernando CorteZ on April p,
40 landed at the spot where now
sands the city of Vera Cruz he pre-
e.nfcd a helmet to the Indian Gov
ernor for King Montezuma of the AZ
tees. with the request that 1T be filled
uith gold. which" Cortez told him,
.vas a specific remedy for a disease
with which his countfymen were sore
Is afflicted"
Nontezuma submitted to the Span
ssh ad%venturer and died of wounds
inflicted by his own people; but his
successor. who still resisted the Span
lard even after more than 100, 600 Of
his subjects had persisted and his ma
tion was starved by a siege, when APP
pcaied TO by Cortez to surrender Mex
ico piled: "GautemoZin would die
where he was"
Death Before Resignation.
when / resign" said General
Huerta. d%efiantly. on October Is last,
Ill will be to seek, a resting place six
feet in the soil"
Uuerta has never been friendly to
the United States o to Americans.
AT a banquet given by Mexico City in
1912 on the eve of his departure for
Chihuahua to put down a rebelllon he
declared in an address:
II don't fear the gringos- No Mex
lean fear them.
But for the treason of President
Santa Anna. who sold himself to the
Americans in 1847, we should have
beaten the Yankees then just as surely
a. we will peat them the next time.
let them only cross the Rio,
Bravo, We will send them back with
battered heads.
we Mexicans defeated the Span
iards, French, Austrians, Belgians and
all other adventures who followed
after Macmillan.
AS a matter of fact, the only two
nations that take the side of our old
Aztec people are England and Japan,
The United States is an ola pO-
drida hash of peoples. one of tines
days England, Japan and Mexico viii
march on her and that will be the enc
al the United States"
Hucrta Warns United States.
ON October % last Huerta expressed
the hope that the United States would
recognize his government, but at tn
same time declared he would not toll
crate Interference in the internal pol
icy of Mexico and that the will of NJ
foreign government could be imposed
ON the republic except by force.
Should the United States fail t
recognize the established Mexican
government he declared, lit woul'
incur the risk of pr~ecipitating in thi
country a crisis which might brlnI
Washington face to face with the gov
ernments at London, Pari and Berlin
and which might cad ither to tn
setting aside Of the Monroe DOctrin
ar 10 the appalling injustice of inter
vention by the United States in Mex
leo. bringing two friendly nations int
hostile conflict, which the people Q
neither country wish and which Ough
To be avoided"
Huerta at all times has sought t
influence foreign governments to tax
positions hostile to President Wilson
Mexican policy. but those govern
mentS, after weighing the interests a
stake, supported the American atti
tude. Huerta's policy has been tha
OF the cuttlefish, to muddy the res
issues. appeal to the %avarice Of fol
elSn investors, and to the suppose
enemies of America.
Huerta is the crown OF reactlOl
opposed to reform a tyrant that 500
must disappear.
Origin Of PeOnagc System.
70 appreciate the Mexican tua
as n exists, which is a more seriOl
affair than the Tampico flag inciden
one must leaye the fighting and vie
The diabolical system which has exis
ed since Cortez made mis- first demaT
Tor gold from MOnteZuma and owe
Threw the Aztec empire.
The Pope in 1887 issued a deer
dsclaring the Indians to be really ar
'ruiy men'-'ipsos veras hOmines
and Charles V of Spain declared the
70 be the Kings subjects, in a va
eHo 10 rescue them from the inh
name and slavish system Of repart
mlentOs, by which they had been q
'lded with the land among the Spa
lsh conquerors.
Brantz Mayer. in his History
mexlco' describing the ubiquitous c
ionial system of Spain. says:
bribery, intrigue. delay, denial
justice, outrage and ruin were the HS