The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-05-08
MEXICO is IN THE MAKING


William G. Shepherd, United Press
correspondent at Vera Cruz, and a
man we'll acquainted with Mexican
IS in line with some sentiments the
Star expressed several months ago..
Let Mexico alone. That's the
thought that impresses itself upon
every American-that is every Am
erican who doesn't own mine or a
concession-who knows anything
about the situation here.
Here's smile that shows the
feeling. Some old folks, like father,
mother and grandparents, are watch
a baby trying to walk. The baby
falls and bumps its head; again it
Iumbles and almost every stroll the
baby winds up in some disaster. But
what nonsense it would be if the
parents and grandparents finally de-
.cided that the baby must not be per-
mitted to walk. 1t would be the
height of folly as we'll as of cruelty
to the child to say:
Every time baby tries to learn to
walk it hurts itself. Therefore, We'll
push him around in his carriage and
we won't permit him to try to walk. y
ing baby trying to walk. The baby
It would be less cruel to kill the baby
outright than to treat it in that fash
snn-
Mexico is baby among nations.
American Intervention would be
strapping Mexico into a go-cart.
Mexico has tremendous dis
aance to go to reach manhood among
nations. The distance is so great
centuries long-that it makes you
tired to consider. But it's a journey
that many of the great nations of
fhe earth have not yet completed,
after centuries Of struggle. All the
nave solved and are solving for
themselves, Mexico must solve for
herself.
If we narrow the comparison
down to measuring Mexico with the
United States we discover that Mex
leo has not yet even started to solve
her Indian problem. Her wild west
days, her Clusters last fight and
charges, her massacres, her Indian
reservations, all are before her and
haven't even been touched. There
are vast territories in Mexico where
a Mexican dare not venture for fear
Of Indians
OF Mexico's population of $780,
900, almost 100000 are indians
When We look back in the United
States at our Indian days and con-
slider that Mexico can't even begin to
take up the Indian problem until it
has solved the problem of how to
the semi-civilized capital of Mexico
City, We begin to see something of
the long road that Mexico faces. In
the northwest of Mexico, just as the
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Ihe old days, the sturdiest of the In
dams reside, the Yaquis. In their
own way they are a noble race.
Here's picture OF one thing that
happened among them:
After Madero's victory, General
b F. Viljoen the former Boer
general, who aided Madero, was sent
TO pursuade the Yaquis to peace He
went to them with the wise governor
of the state, and an Interpreter.
They received him in the campfire
circle and passed around the pipe of
peace, just as the Sioux Indians used
10 do. Viljoen made a long speech
saying that Madero loved the In
dians- Then the governor of the
state made a speech. Then the two
civilized men seated themselves on
the ground and awaited an answer.
Fer two long hours not word was
spoken. The grizzled old Yaquis
chief sat silent as sphinx. The In
dams sat like stone images The
civilized men fidgeted around and