The farmer and mechanic., 1915-10-19
Promulgation of Woodrow
Wilson Doctrine In Refus-
ing to Grant Recognition
to Huerta Leads to Fall of
Illegal Big Business as
Most Important Factor in
Mexico - Constitutional
Government Now Possible

The other morning the world woke
mp to read I'm the newspapers that the
United States and Latin American
governments unanimously had de-
cidcd to grant formal recognition to
the provisional administration of Cen
eral Carranza in Mexico. During the
past yea. Mexico has been crowded
from the front page to great extent
by the European war. and naturally
the popular question is:
Who is CarranZa and why has he
been chosen to guide the Mexican ship
of state I'm preference to Villa, Zap
ata and other factiOnal leaders in the
fie,d?"
Probably no other man in NOrtl,
Carolina at this time is better fitted
10 speak Oh conditions In Mexico and
events that lead to q decision to recOg
niBe CarranZa than Marvin Fcrree.
telegraph editor Of the News and OBJ
server. As a war correspondent for
the New York Tribune the Wall Street
Journal, the Washington Times and
Los Angeles Times, Mr.. Ferree has
travelled over the greater part Of Mex
leo and has an intimate knowledge of
the country and its present leaders.
Mr.. Fcfree is acquainted person
ally with General Carranza and as a
newspaper man has met and observed
at close range Zapata, Villa and other
leaders. In the following article he
gives some interesting facts regarding
the cause Of MexicOS internal trouble
which point to the reason for the Sc
lection Of Carranza and what is prom
ised under a regime of the first CHIEF
of the COnstitutiOnalistS.
BY MARVIN FERREE
Recognition by the United States
and Latin-American nations Of the
provisional government Of General
CarranZa will mark the beginning OF
q new era in the internal life OF
Mexico and also a victory for Presi-
dent Wilson in paving the way for
revolution ridden land south of the
Rio Grande.
The promulgaton of the woodrow
Wilson Doctrine in refusing to recOg.
nize General Huerta was the first steI
toward peace in Mexico In that i
declared that governments on thi:
continent must be devoid Of the lille
gal influence Of so-called big business
This policy ended a concession prOpa
ganda which for a third Of century
enslaved practically all of Mexico'
100000 inhabitants under the rule
OF dictators and a chosen few virtual!
employed by powerful business inter
ests in this country and Europe.
This concession policy had its brit
III tHc ITSI OdyS Ol NcncIdI VI III ~
Diaz. who held Mexico in his grip TO
nearly thirty years. When Don Por
rrio assumed control Of the govern
ment Of Mexico the country just wa
emerging from a long period of revo
lutions which eliminated in the over
throw Of Maximilian as emperor. TIL
country was in debt and Diaz rea,
lied that to run his government prop
erly he must have money, but tn
value of Mexican currency had depre
ciated to such an extent that Mexica
bonds were a joke and he was laughe
at in Wall Street when he apple
there for loan. A similar refuSa
came from London and Brussels.
Diaz Demands Concession.
Several years before this the BIRTHS
nrm of S. Pearson & Son. Limited. {
London, had built a railway acrOs
the isthmus OF Teha untepec in south
ern Mexico and Diaz decided it woul
Oe good time to construct a line froI
vera Cruz to the City Of Mexico. II
suggested this 10 the Pearson cOncer
ana Immediately workmen We're ser
over to Mexico to build the line. n
sooner had these landed at Vera Cru
however, than Diaz notified Pearso