New Britain herald., 1914-11-20
LAND QUESTION CAUSE
 OF MEXICAN TROUBLE
John Lind Says Revolution VIII Continue Until Workers OWnFNms.

Chicago. Nov. 2o.-John Lind. per- sonal representative of President Will son in Mexico, during the Huerta ad- ministration. declared yesterday in an address here to the Industrial club, that the land question was the cause of the revolution in Mexico and that fighting there would never cease un- til the workers there were able to own their own farms.
 Mir Lind pleaded for kindly feel ings toward Mexico, asserting that Mexican distrust of the United States was vanishing and that thereafter the Mexicans would be our steadfast friends forever. @..
 Peace an Impossibility.
 T felt while in Mexico and I feel now,' said MT. Lind, that permanent peace in Mexico on the basis of the social and economic conditions which have existed in the past, is an inn possibility"
 MT. Lind sketched the taking of the land from the original possessors oy the Spanish conquerors.
 .As a whole the nation was made homeless" he said, "and has so con- tinued to this day. This is and will be the cause of revolutions in Mexico until the question is settled. The state of Morelos, for example, is own. e6 by 27 men,"
 Nominal Freedom Accorded.
 Nominal freedom. MT. Lind declar- ed, was accorded the peons, but they were and are poorly laid and virtually compelled to remain in the service of the great land owner. Laws 1or- bidding an employe to leave his ser vice while in debt have aided in Keep Ing the workers in subjection.
 f.I asked myself and I asked some of the critics of President Wilson's policy" he said, whether 1t was not within the range of probability that a people who within a brief genera tion had responded with such facilt- ty to the new social and economic environment, might make equivalent progress in the field of politics and .government, if afforded fair chance"
 Mcxicans True to Word.
 Careful study of Mexicans, Mir. Lind said, has convinced him that the differences between Mexicans and citizens of the United States are not racial nor psychological. The in- gratitude and turbulence attributed to the Mexicans. MT. Lind attributed to the years of oppression which they have suffered. He held that the word of a Mexican could be taken with as much reliance as the word of men of other natfonalities and spoke with pleasure of their univer- sal courtesy and kindliness.
 ''The hard experience of the Mexi- can has made him wary and suspic- io,ls" said MT. Lind. 'It has been difficult for the Mexican people to be- lieve that our president did not have some uIterior motive in his proffered good offices.
 ''I think, however, that they are now about convinced. and when once convinced, I think, it will be true of the Mexican people, as it is of individ- ,, ual Mexicans that when once you have their real confidence, more loyal friends are not to be found"
 MT. Lind excoriated the Mexican land owning aristocracy. charging them with lack of patriotism.
 "I do not belittle the losses of men who have lost dividends from mines and plantations. Their losses have been great and grievous. But there are greater interests in this world than dividends"
 Crime Against Nation.
 Property losses can be compen- sa+ed. but to retard civilization, wrether by the recognition of a IJuerta. or as is done in Europe, at this hour, would have been crime against two nations and generations