Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-04-04
CARRANZA IS SINCERE
FRIEND OF j. s., SAYS
ONE WHO KNOWS HIM
Prof, J, w. Slaughter Depicts
First Chief of Mexico as
Man Who Is Honestly Striv-
ing for Reforms
BY KENNETH w. PAYNE.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, April 1.-Cous-
in Carranza! What is he really like?
What good is he actually going to ac-
complish in his turbulent cauldron Of
a country?
Officially o. KID by Uncle Sam, our
de facto cousin has remained to most
americans as grim a puzzle as the Next
car muddle itself
Prof. John Willis Slaughter hasn't any
AK to grind, but he has a personal ac-
quaintance with Carranza. This cele-
bIated student of politics and sociology
believes the coming presidential cam
paign, Americas future trade and peace
with South America, and in fact the
happy solution of some of the biggest
problems of the day, are all bound up
with an intelligent understanding of the
Mexican situation.
When I went to Mexico" said Dr.
Slaughter to me, 81 expected to find
Carranza the same kind of pompous
revolutionary figurehead l had met Oft
en- in my years of experience in South
America. J. was convinced the old man
is an able. straightforward leader of a
permanently established cause, and that
Justice and patriotism are on his side"
Moreover, Carranza is sincerely friend
ly to the United States, according to
Dr. Slaughter who, with Lincoln Stef-
fens has been investigating conditions
in Mexico City and throughout the re-
public.
Everything CarranZa does is abso-
lutely above board. Everybody knows
where he stands, and what he is going
to do. He has no private intrigue. No
foreign interest has ever had the nerve
to approach him with a bride, although
every general in his army and every
IGember of his government has been so
approached.
"On a train trip with Carranza l saw
him painstakingly getting acquainted
with the people, the leaders and the
poems. In every village he got out and
walked among them, learning their wants
and hopes and making himself solid
with them.
AT Mexico City | learned the other
side. Interventionists talk about the
need of the iron hand over the Mexican
people. The iron hand ought to grip
not them but Mexico City.
Mexico City is the nest of a crowd
of petty intriguers, the small fry re-
naming from the Diaz regime, who are
almost alone responsible for the strife
which has cost the lives OF InOuSdluS
Of innocent poems.
eff Carranza should order General
Obregon to set up a guilotine in Mexico
CITY and execute some 1000 Of these
well-dressed traitors to their country
he would accomplish more toward the
restoration of good government in Mex
leo than could be by any other single
measure.
SLOWLY the first chief is proceeding
with the needed reforms, breaking up
the great. estates and restoring them to
their rightful owners where they were
uniustly appropriated, establishing
schools, replacing the military rule with
civil machinery.
when this work is finished he VIII
step aside, / am sure, wanting nothing
more than the knowledge that his JOB
is we'll done, and will leave the admin
istration to an honestly, legally elected
civil government.
"A rash step leading to intervention
by the United States would work in
calculable harm not only to Mexico and
the peaceful accomplishment of her
economic freedom, but the United states
as we'll, for it would deprive US for
generations of the friendship OF all
South America"