Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1915-03-05

The outlook In Mexico at present
is really encouraging, though the con-
fusion attendant upon military opera
lions has served to make this country
consider the situation more dark than
ever before. All the patriotic ele-
ments in Mexico are rallying to Car
ranza's standard. Villa with his own
division of the army Is fighting the
rest of the nation and an indication
of what his movement really signifies
is the fact that he has invited all the
old Federal army officers against
whom the Madero revolution and its
successor that drove Huerta from pow
er was waged to join him.
World conditions are such that no
government In Mexico can exist with
out the friendship of this country and
without its moral and financial help.
In sense then, Americans are in duty
bound to look upon the situation in
Mexico from an intelligent and SYM
pathetic angle.
carranza Misunderstood.
Carranza has been grossly misun-
derstood in this country. He is a
man of probity, clean living and in
tense patriotism. He is not a wealthy.
man. He has reared his family in
comfort, having made his living from
the raising of cattle He himself has
visited the United States many times.
He has had his family educated in
this country. Every man whom he
has selected to become a member of
his Cabinet he has first sent to this
country to become acquainted with the
American idea, system and plan of
conducting the Office he is about to as
suale.
Carranza is unmilitary, educated,
having taken a law degree, intensely
Mexican, and whole-heartedly desir-
GUS of helping the downtrodden peon
to obtain his chance in life" Villa
contrastingiy is uneducated, ignorant,
brutal, unrestrained in his passions,
totally unappreciative of the needs of
his country and is simply riding his
vanity to what he hopes will be the
dictatorship of Mexico
Illustrative of the character of the
two men is the fact that Carranza, not
even to gain valuable political ends,
would stultify himself to the extent of
currying favor with the Washington
administration as long as our troops
were at Vera Cruz. His feelings Of
friendship he kept locked in his heart
until the time he deemed proper to
express them. Villa, on the other
hand, has been one thing to this
country and another to Mexico He
has taken every occasion to slobber-
ingly express his regard and friend
ship for this country and the admin
istration, while in Mexico he has at
tempted to gain recruits for his army
by demagogically declaring that the
United States intends to annex Mexico
and that he in the role of his country's
savior calls upon the ex-Foderals to
Join him in resisting the invasion that
he announces soon is to come. Villa
IS forced to make this explanation to
his own troops because otherwise they
would keenly resent the presence of
these Huertistas in their ranks.
Carranza and the Constitutionalist
cause has been assaulted in this coun-
Try as being not only Anti-Catholic,
but Anti-Religious. The true facts
show both these accusations to be
alse. The Constitutionalist cause is
opposed to any church taking part in
he politics of the country and is We
lemently opposed to it's aligning itself
With the reactionaries- and privileged
lasses, as unfortunately the Catholic
hurch has done since the colonization
# Msxico by the Spaniard.s
Rafael Zuberan Capmany, former
gent of the Constituencies in
Washington. and now minister of the
Interior in Carranza's Cabinet, stated
? the following manner the Constitu-
lonalists' position in this respect:
Church Question.
let the Catholics of America I'M
erstand that the occurrences which
ave happened and are explainable
nder the present disturbed condi-
ons, do not, nor cannot constitute a
art of the program of the Constitu-
onaIists who are pledged to the prin-
pile of the separation of the State
nd church and are firm believers in
lie principle of religious liberty"
One OF the main reasons that has
-evented better feeling of cordial
y existing between Mexico and this
'untry has been the fact that the
binary American looks upon all
exicans as "greasers" and affects an
r of superiority towards the nation.
at has bred the worst of understand
g between the two countries. The
wer class OF Mexicans, commonly
He'd the "peon," is undoubtedly ig-
rant and ill-kempt- but he has ster-
lg virtues Of honesty and a genuine
We of his country that deserves re-
ect.
President Wilson by his just atti-
de towards Mexico has wiped out
9 old memories that country has
10 OF US since the Mexican war,
len We took from # the greater nor.
n of its territory. Mexicans now
iyersally recognize that the onIv
bition this country has in regard
Mexico is to be Of help and assist