The Nevada County picayune., 1915-02-26
OUTLOOK FUR WAR-R|DDEN COUNTRY BRIGHTER THAN MOST AMERICANS
 REALIZE; PEACE SOON ID RE|G|
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The outlook in Mexico at present: is really encouraging, though the cosl fusion attendant upon military oper,l tions has served to make this eountri consider the situation more dark thai ever before. All the patriotic els5 ments in Mexico are rallying to CsrE ranza's standard. Villa with his ows division of the army is fighting ths rest of the nation and an indicatiss oI Hha his me}0ment really signifsz is the fact that he has invited all tha old Federal armS officers arainsI whom the Madero revolnf on and a2 successor that drove Huerta from posE CT was waged, to join him.
 World conditions are such that u8 government in Mexico can exist witN out the friendship Of this country anS without it's moral and financial held In a sense then. Americans are in dutz bound to look upon the situation S Mexico from an intelligent and a syrx pathetic angle.
 Carranza Misunderstood.
 Carranza has been grossly misus' derstood in this country. He is x man of probity. clean living and N tense patriotism He is not a wealts& man. He has reared his family z comfort. having made his living fros the raising of cattle. He himself hss visited the United States many timeE He has had his family educated \ this country Every man whom A has selected to become a member % | fC ha GrGf fo ! country to become acquainted with d@ American idea, system and plan % conducting the office he is about to aS sume. Carranza is unmilitary, educats8 having taken a law degree, intense
 Mexican, and whole-heartedly desN ous of helping the downtrodden pea to obtain his chance in life" Vi# ! contrastingly is uneducated, ignorad brutal, unrestrained in his passiouS l totally unappreciative of the needs N his country and is simply riding h& vanity to what he hopes will be As dictatorship of Mexico. Illustrative of the character of t# two men is the fact that Carranza, l even to gain valuable political ent would stultify himself to the extent M currying favor with the WashingM i administration as long as our troc# wer' P Vera Cruz His feelings x fri ship he kept locked in his hesS unt' he time he deemed proper # express them Villa. on the oth # hand has been one thing to th country and another to Mexico.
 has taken every occasion to slObba < ingly express his regard and fren# ship for this country and the adm f istration. while in Mexico he has N8 tempted to gain recruits for his ar1 8 by demagogically declaring that tM& United States intends to annex Me1 # and that he in the role of his countH savior calls upon the eXFederals M join him in resisting the invasion tlS he announces soon is to come. N Is forced 10 make this explanation
 his own troops because otherwise ti ' would keenly resent the presence n these HuertistaS in their ranks M
 CarranZa and the Constitutional s cause has been assailed in this co1S try as being not only Anti-Catho 3 but Anti-Reigious. The true faa 2 show both these accusations to WM false The Constitutionalist cause opposed to any church taking part
 the politics of the country and is
 hemently opposed to it's aligning ts with the reactiOnaries and privilee classes. as unfortunately the Catho % church has done since the colonizaE of Mexico by the Spaniard. W
 Iph agent of the Constitutionalists
 Washington, and now minister Of interior fin Carranzas s Cabinet, stss in the following manner the Consu tionalists' position in this respect
 Church Question.
 Let the Catholics of America derstand that the occurrences Wna * have happened and are explainsI under the present disturbed co tions, do not, nor cannot constituls part of the program of the Consu tionalists who are pledged to the ciple of the separation of the su # and church and are firm believers the principle of religious liberty
 One ot the main reasons that M prevented a better feeling of cora ity existing between Mexico ana
 country has been the fact that
 ordinary American looks upon &4 Mexicaus as 'greasers" and afect air of superiority towards the nat that has bred the worst of underss .,& ing between the two countries
 lower class Of MeXicans, comm called the "peon," is undoubted! norant and illkempt. but he has ling virtues of honesty and a gem love of his country that deserves spect. &
 President Wilson by his just, tude towards Mexico has wiped the old memories that country
 held of Us since the Mexican
 when we took from 1t the greater ton of Its territory. Mexicans universally recognize that the
 ambition this country has in reg to Mexico is to be of help and as' anCe to it