Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1915-03-06
The view of the ordinary American

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The view of the ordinary American
citizen in regard to Mexico is that
1t has become just one Provisional
President after another Changes
have been SO Kaleidoscope and the
daily news has Deen so conflicting
that it has become almost impossible
Tor the man on the street" to under
stand the true situation in the Repub.
lie to the south of US.
His evaporation has reached that
point where he now dismisses the
whole affair with a comment that "a
lot of bandits seem to be fighting
among themselves in Mexico as 10
who shall be allowed the privilege
Of looti1E the country and | reckon
Uncle Sam viii have to step in one o.
these days and straighten things out"
The one significant fact that has
served to make Americans believe that
possibly behind the present turmoil in
Mexico there may be after all some.
thing big and serious, has been the
broad humanitarian view that Presi-
dent Wilson has consistently taken in
regard to the Mexican revolution.
A brief history of the present revo-
lutionary movement in Mexico tens
to clear up many of the things thu.
have remained lncomprehensible to
Americans and sheds a light on the
entire situation that gives a true UNI
derstanding of the conditions in that
country as they exist today.
The present revolution actually had
its inception with Francisco Madero
In 1910. Most Americans are familiar
with the rapid and unexpected tri-
umph of Madero over Diaz, but it is
not generally known that Madero's
regime failed to be a success and live
up to the high hopes and expectations
that had been born with it, because
he had been too generous in compro-
missing with the reactionaries and that |
they on account of their dominance of |
the two holdover houses of Congress |
were able to defeat all his plans for !
the betterment of his people
Assassination of Madero.
The shameful assassination at the
instigation of Huerta excited such a
feeling of indignation in the United
States as to make President Wilson's
stand in refusing to recognize the
Government set up by Huerta on the
dead body of Madero, as being emf
nently just and in keeping with the
best traditions Of this country.
Madero's death put the old cienti-
,ficos, reactionaries and clerics back
|again In power. This necessitated
that the struggle Madero had success
fully waged must again be taken up,
and accordingly there came into ex-
istence with the new movement a new
shibboleth that has rung from one
end of Mexico to the other: Justice
and Reform and no compromise"
The first man to refuse to accept
the authority of the dictator Huerta
and to fling into his face a bitter de.
fance was Venustiano Carranza, then
Governor of the State of Coahuila.
Carranza has been one of the strong
est supporters of Madero and during
the previous revolution had acted as
of War in the assassinated !
Presidents provisional cabinet.
Carranza's patriotic stand drew the {
attention of all liberty loving Mexi-
cans to Coahuila and there soon raj !
lied around the Governors standard
a number of high-minded and patriot :
lc Mexicans, who banded together to s
overthrow the usurper Huerta and re- 2
establish constitutional government S
In Mexico t
Accordingly it was under these cir /
the much heard of, but i,
little understood plan of Guadalupe :
came into existence. The main planks =
Of this plan are as follows: '
For the organization of the mill il
.ary forces necessary to make compli- t
ance with our purposes we name as a
First Chief of the forces which shall P
be called Constitutionalists, Don
Carranza, Governor of the
State of Coahuila. S
"On the occupation by the Consti I.
nationalist forces of the City of Mexi- u
20, the Executive power shall be taken !,
charge of by Don venustiano Carran- h
"a, First Chief of the forces, or who r,
,ver may be substituted in command. o.
1.-THE president ad interim of the Re- Il
public shall convoke general elections A
Is soon as peace shall have been es- n
ablished, delivering the power to the >,
person who shall be elected" -
Genesis of Revolution.
This was the genesis of the revolu- Vi
ion against Huerta, which had, as can "
,e seen, as its one big hope, the re- =,
of constitutional form ~,
4 government in Mexico. Following in
bis triumph, the necessary reforms G.