El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-04-04
WILSON POLICY
TOWARDS MEXICO
WARMLY A5SAILED
Noted Men Declare It Is
Leading Directly to Amer
lean Intervention.
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weakness in Mexico at the present time
mes In the fact that the different sec
tons are bound together only by weak,
sentimental ties
We should break up the Mexican
state and put in its place natural units,
the people of which have common IN
uuStrlal interests and who would there
fore feel any burden that may be i'm
posed on some one class.
10 treat Mexico as a whole would
De as fatal as to have treated the south
as unit at the close of the civil war.
we want no southern sentiment, no
eastern or western sentiment, no more
tnan we want Irish, German or Jewish
sentiment. Mexican sentiment is a bar
TO their progress and to ours. It should
ern sentiment was fought and defeated %
Diaz Was Honest,
Alfred Bishop Mason, of New York
city said 5nLan va..- .ao ub., -.
building a little railroad from Vera
cruz to the isthmus Of Tehuantepec, the
government of POFfiriO DiaZ was not
corrupt. It was white and pure. In
Mexico l never paid a penny and was
never asked to pay a penny Of black
mail commissions or graft
course
about 1900, tribe Of mountain in
dams killed some prOspectOrs looking
for mines, because they thought they
were surveying their lands. Experience
long since taught the indians, who hold
their lands in common, that a survey
has as its sure sequel a seizure. These
particular prOSpectOrS were working
under a government concession DiaZ
sent a regiment into their mountains.
1t captured, bound and shot, without
trial nearly 1900 indians, practically
all the adult males of the tribe. Not a
word Of this got into the papers.
Mexican Elections a Farce.
Elections have always been farce.
A friend of mine sat as congressman
from part Of YuCatan for 20 years. He
was never in Yucatan and could not
tell me the boundaries of his district
All he knew was that every two years
he received word from Diaz that he u as
to be elected again. I had been q resi-
dent of Mexico very short time, when
I received an official notice to vote at
a national election. I went TO the
polls. There were two policemen at
the door of the room, three men in
frock coats and silk hats within, be-
hind a table which held a ballot box
Not a voter was in sight. I explained
that I had received the notice, but that
I was an American citizen and had no
right to vote. If you wish to vote,
senior said the chairman, it viii give
US the utmost delight to have you do
So
''The fundamental question in Mexico
is the land question. The Mexican rev.
olution will never be settled until it
is settled rightly giving back to the
people the land of which they were de-
spoiled nearly four centuries ago. Until
the peon has an opportunity to get his
10 or 20 hectares Of land, the peon will
not be at peace.
American Occupancy.
what is there for the United States
to do? Simply to watch and wait 1t
is weary work, this waiting, but as a
great captain once told me, Waiting Is
the finest of the fine arts Professor
Patterns argument in favor of our in
tervening because Mexico is not an in
dustrial unit and our breaking it up
into smaller states which are Industrial
units fails to convince me. MeXicO's is
much more of an Industrial unit than
the United States were Up to 1855. If
economic forces are to break it up into
smaller units, it is still neither adVis-
able nor right that those forces should
be pricked into activity by American
bayOnets. We can occupy any part of
Mexico we choose, at much cost of life,
more cost Of money, a colossal cost for
pensions thereafter, and a terrible cost
In the awakening of the devilish war
spirit which debauches a nation and its
politics where they would be in Mex
leo, but whenever a French garrison
out of a Mexican city Maxi
nilian's rule ended in that city. The
witty Pierre BOnaparte said Of Ma
pOleOn's Mexican experiment:
" My cousin is finding out that you
,an do anything in the world with bay
Onets except sit on them.
IF we. occupy Mexico, we shall simply
sit upon our bayonets- Let US still
watch and wait"