New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-16
In MetCalf Interview Says
Mexico Is Following
Out Jefferson.
PLEDGE TO CURB
WEALTH'S POWER
First Chief Promises COnStitu-
ton, but NeglectS to Say
He's Not a Candidate.

Washington. July l5.-Almost read
ing himself into the Democratic party,
First Chief Carranza. in an interview
given out By the Carrauza agency here
tonight. said to have been obtained
by Richard L. Metcalf. Bryan's former
newspaper partner. expressed the view
that it was strange that one Of the
chief difficulties OF the Constitution
alists was to have their purpose I'M
derstood at Washington.
I'VE are moving so closely along
the lines Of government marked by
Thomas Jefferson" said General Car
rama. "of whom we believe President
Wilson to be a faithful disciple. that
we feel that we are entitled TO the
hearty sympathy Of the American gov
eminent In all that we are trying 70
do on this line We have such faith
in the Democratic purposes of PreSi-
dent Wilson that we are confident he
would give the Constitutionalist party
his whole sympathy if he could but
know the spirit which anmates that
party's purpose in Mexico"
Further along in the appeal for rec
ognltlon-fOr such the interview is
Carranza promises that as soon as
order is restored he will call the Mexi-
can Congress in session, for the adop-
tlOn of a constitution, 20 be based, now
ever, on the orders which General Car
rama iE the meantime has issued. Next
an election viii be held for the presi-
dorcy, after which, he says, the gov
eminent will be in full swing. He does
nos say whether he will be a candidate
az this election.
Carranza Silent on Candidacy.
The question of Carranzas candi-
dacy is a moot one, and has been one
Of the stumbling blocks on the path Of
Carranza recognition since before the
fall of Huerta.
The burdens Of government in Mex
leo have fallen almost exclusively on
the poor ard the small business man."
says General CarrauZa. by a system
of debt cancellation poems have been
held in slavery 20 the extent that the
buying and selling Of human beings
has been actually possible. In taxa
tion, men owning property valued at
half million pesos have paid no more
than men whose property is valued at
10000 pesos. People who own small
market places have been required 20
pay as much as those who own big
warehouses. Everywhere wealth has
amounted TO privilege and has escaped
taxation, whereas property has seemed
TO invite new and unbearablo burdens.
TO equallze the burdens is one Of
the purposes Of the Constitutionalist
party, and 10 this purpose our people
just as dcyotcdly as the men Of your
own Jettcrson's time have pledged
their lives, their fortunes and their
honor"
Three persons We're killed and eight
injured when a passenger train on the
Ichuantepcc National Railway was de-
rallied By bandits on the night of July
II, according TO a dispatch received by
the State Department to-day.
Dispatches from Mexico City re-
ceived By the State Department to-day,
declared that some !ooting was done by
the Zapatistas, particularly Of houses
belonging to enemies Of the revolu-
ton" Some automobiles, carriages
and horses were taken. All banks and
other commercial houses were closed
and the populacc remained indoors.
Foreigners in general were not mo-
Tested.
Advices from the west coast also
say that Urbalejo has defeated the
Bronco Yaquis and driven them back
to the mountains. All is quiet in the
YaqUi Valley with Geographic COM
munication re-establIshed, and trains
in operation as far as Corral. As an
evidence Of prosperity, l29 cars Of
cattle are said TO have been shipped
to Arizona last month from Guaymas.
villa Forces Take Offensive.