The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-16
MEXICANS CHERISH IDEAL OF LIBERTY ON
 INDEPENDENCE DAY

This is independence day in Mex ico, and while it's observance may seem a grim and sorry jest. yet the l celebration will be animated by that ideal of liberty which as yet remains unrea1ized in the ancient land of the Aztecs We of the north. may scoff, may refer to our turbulent neighbors as ignorant Greasers,'' may consider. and often rightly, that 1t is love of loot and. libertinism rather of "'liber- tad' which inspires the leaders of the Mexican patriots. Yet when all is said and done, it is the spirit which finds patriotic expresSi on on each 18th of September that enables the gen. erals of the various factions to keep Mexico in a turmoili The real patriots of Mexico have often been deceived, /, and their confidence has been be- | trayed a thousand times by leaders whose patriotisn was only a. pretence to veil selfish designs, but in spite of all these discouragements the holy fire still burns in their breasts. It was this thirst forf freedom which made possible Madero's successful revolt against the pitiless tyranny of the Diaz regime, with all it's tragic after naath. Under Diaz the Mexican peo- pie were permitted just enough en- Iightenment to enable them to realize their degradation.
 To many North Americans, Mexico is but big fat pie to be devoured, and the Mexican peon is but cheap labor to be exploited. The demand for United States intervention voiced by such as these can excite only the disgust of those to whom liberty is
 more than a name. There are many others. in Europe as we'll as America, who believe that intervention offers the only hope for Mexico.
 Whether or not the Medcans are capable of realizing by themselves the fruition of that "E1 grito de Dolores, of September 16, 1910. which inspired them to throw off the Spanish yoke remains to be seen Certainly the pendence finds the people little if any better off than they were under their cruel Spanish masters. Yet there is a ray of hope in theN gloom wIoch hovers over Mexico.
 While displaying their superiority to the Mexican ns-which in this case is tha at of the robber for the victim, since the United States took from Mexico a vast and rich territory as the result Of what Grant called rsthe most unjust war ever waged by a strong nation upon a weak one'=t11e subjects of Uncle Sam should remember that it was only a little more than half a century ago that they themselves were engaged in civil war much more terrible than that raging in Mexico. The United States would not have welcomed at that time the interven- ton of Europe in what it justly con sidered it's own quarrel. Yet tne Eu- ropean nations suffered great financial losses from this wears just as Ameri- can capitalists are suffering from the effects Yo of Mexico's disturbed condi- ton. peated in Mexico. and that, just as the ignorant and degraded popu1ace of France, by a revolution forever memorable for it's excesses and it's terrors, laid the foundation for free and enlightened democracy, so will the people of Mexico arise trium- phant from the ruin into which they have plunged their country. For ever in thine eyes, liberty!''-as said John Shines that high light whereby the world is saved and, though they s1ay us. we will trust in thee.''