The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-26

The whirlwind is gathering from the four corners of heaven. From the north comes Villa, on his way through the heart of the country, from Juarez to Chihuahua. to Torreon. From the west comes Obregon with 20000 men and the Yaqui Indians, who for four centuries have never known defeat; he is at Mazatlan, fighting for a seaport on the Pacific before he makes his final dash for Mexico City. From the east comes Gonzales, now at Tampico fighting for a seaport on the Atlantic, within striking distance of Huerta. But the storm will break first from the south Ffgueroa and Zapata have joined their forces and are within 100 miles of Chapul- tepec
 Zapata Fighting for Peons
 F'igueroa is schoomaster, but school master with guts. Zapata has no learning He is the prototype of the Indian peon-- merciless with those he hates, and self sacrificing and tender as a woman with those he loves. You may kill zapata to- morrow. Zapatism will live. It is more than an idea; it is an ideal. Zapatsm is the gospel of peasant proprietorship. The state of Morelos, where he was born is held in free simple by less than two dozen landlords.
 That is the condition that Zapata is fighting to end. When Madero sent to him and offered him S3O,O0O to lay down his arms-s30000, that meant untold wealth. meant more than 80, ,oOo, 900 would mean here-zapata sent back word that he did not want and would not take gold wrung from the tears of his fellow peons, and that he would lay down his arms only if the land were divided.
 This Real Revolution
 That stand of zapata's is the stand of Carranza today Carranza cannotN be bought off and he will not dicker. Dicker- ing is fatal to reform. The plea that half loaf Is better than no bread has been the block over which all really demo- cratic, all really republican movements in Mexico have stumbled and fallen in the past This time there is to be no When the fuss Is over, 1t will be over for good. We are having an cleo tion in Mexico, the only kind of election by the results of which all Mexicans will now abide. When the votes have done their work and the dead are counted, then and only then shall we have peace.
 Fighting It Out Among Themselves
 If we are allowed to fight it out among ourselves Mexico will be saved. Huerta must go, but he must be put out by Mexi- | cans. Material loss there will be-there | must be in a healthy revolution. Some of It will fall upon foreigners, but Mexico is rich enough to pay for the damage 1 done. Injustice there will be and all man. | her of injury. Some of it will fall upon | foreigners, but injustice can be atoned l for and injury redressed once peace Is re- | We all want to see the fight | Ing finished s soon as possible. As yet | we have not been recognized as belliger- | ents, although we are in control of more than half of Mexico. Perhaps even the | of the constitutionalist forces | as belligerents may retard the work of 1 pasfication.' If we are recognized as | We shall nave to conform to l he laws of war. If we remain revolu- ionists we can finish the bloody work 1 quicker That sounds brutal, I know, put it is true character. Mexico is like | nan suffering from a hideous ulcer. The sore has been fully exposed and the sur seons knife invoked. There is nothing 70 do but to shut one's eyes and wish the surgeon godspeed.