The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1914-05-21
MEDIATION MEANS
new LIFE FOR Poems.
Should Negotiations Be Successful It
Will Guarantee Them Right
of Land Ownership.
FACT NOW KNOWN IN MEXICO
If Such Was the Case Huerta Could
Not Raise Handful of Men for
Army-Owen Addresses Senate.

BY Congressman C. H. Tavenner.
Washington, May 21.-If the med
iation negotiations are a success it
will mean the guarantee to the
poems of Mexico by the three A. B.
G. nations of South America, backed
by the power of the United States,
of a constitution provision giving
the right of land ownership to the
millions who have been despoiled Of
their heritage by the successive
reigns of Diaz, Madero and Huerta.
Let this fact once become gener-
ally known in Mexico, and no
amount of resistance to the media
ton order on the part of Huerta, or
any ambitious constitutionalis lead
ers either, for that matter, will be of
any avail.
I1uC1 va SouIu AOL dloO q Ill
of men to resist an interference in
Mexican affairs as beneficent as that
which seems likely to come from the
mediation conference
Senator Owen, in his recent speech
on the Mexican situation before the
senate touched the exact cause of
the continual revolution in Mexico.
He said:
monopoly has become so complete
in Mexico that millions of human
beings, willing to labor, own no land
upon which they may labor. The
same cruel and intolerable condi-
tions of land monopoly described by
Thomas Jefferson as existing in
France Immediately before the
French revolution exists in Mexico
today, and make revolution absolute
ly unavoidable make revolution alb
solutely inextinguishable until this
crime against human life shall be
corrected and the right of human be-
ings to live shall he recognized and
provided. The demand of the Zap
atistas is for land upon which the
peasantry can support life. These
conditions have led to the war by
Carranza, Villa and the constitutions
alists."
There is a gross SANDER current
in the United States that the Mexi-
can people are unfit for self govern
ment. 1t is SANDER because the
fact is not known whether or not
they are capable of governing them
selves. They have never had the
chance, but the fact that many of
them are willingly laying down their
lives on the altar of a cause seems
to argue that government may be
trusted with the plain people of
Mexico. At any rate, it is not the
province Of this nation to determine
that fact for Mexico. No doubt the
we'll fed people of the world said the
same thing about the American COL
onists when they declared war
against Great Britain, and the same
thing was said of the French peas
ants when they revolted against the
King of France.
But there is plenty of reason to
believe that any people willing to
engage in revolution to wipe out a
government crime against them are
capable of governing themselves.
Belisario Dominguez, Mexican SEN
ator, and a cultured and educated
man, had no doubt of this ability
among his people. Dominguez made
his will, bid goodby to his family,
then went to the senate and deliv-
cred a speech which denounced HUI
erta as a usurper and voiced the I'M
spoken opinion of the Mexican SEN
ate that the solution of the home
problem was to cast out Huerta and
guarantee a free election of presi-
dent.
Senator Owens read that speech to
our senate. 1t is one of the most
heroic utterances ever delivered on
this continent. Dominguez deliver
ed this address on September %, last
year. Immediately afterwards he
suddenly and mysteriously disap-
peared and was reported to have been
assassinated. For adopting resolu-
tions demanding an inquiry, the
Mexican senate was dissolved by HUI
erta and. the members thrown into