The Glasgow courier., 1916-09-22
CARRANZA CONTROLS
TURBULENT MEXICO
Less Than l2,00O Armed Men Against
Him; Lincoln and Washington
His Idols.


"a, first chief Of Mexico, affects an
indifference to newspaper criticism.
He contends that publicity, adverse
or favorable is of little concern to
him. "When they are against me |
never read them. When they are
favorable there is no need to read
them. Fate has decreed what the end
shall be. The future of Mexico will
take care of itself. | am just an in
cident l am where / am because
thus was it ordained. l may think |
am acting ON my own initiative, but
what l may do three months or a
year or any time in the future, is all
prearranged.
This statement is peculiarly Car
ranzaesque. He is fatalist. What
he has considered himself powerless
to remedy he has put aside as sub
ject on which thought would be vast
ed was with the adverse criticisms,
and thus it had been with hundreds
of other things during the years when
his success was constantly matter
of doubt. During these years a
slight turn of fortune, a slight mis-
take or misunderstanding or miscal-
culation on the part of one of his
generals the time was not so
very long ago when he had only a
few might have altered his entire
career and changed the entire destiny
of his nation.
Today Carranza is practically in
control of all Mexico. According to
his reports there are less than 12,-
900 men, all told, in arms against
him. A year ago there were 10000.
He is confident that within the next
six months armed opposition to the
government he has established will
be thing of the past.
Mexico is a nation of hero wor-
shippers. That explains in a measure
how such men as Villa succeed. The
Mexicans are an adventurous people,
and the glamor of the bravo outshines
the irregularities Of his operations.
just now Carranza is the idol. And
of all the men who have forged to the
front in Mexico in recent years, al
ways excepting Madero, the first
chief has the cleanest hands, in a po-
litical sense. He plods along now
that he sits in the seat Of Diaz, just
as he did when his capitol was the
government light house at Vera Cruz
George Washington and Abraham
Lincoln are the idols of Carranza
He has the translation Of every book
that has been written about these
two famous Americans, and he Is
more familiar with their principles
and their policies than is the aver
age we'll read American.
The charge has often been made
that Carranza was anti-American. Ht
denies this, but adds that he is "pro
Mexican.' Add to his veneratiol
for these two great American char
acters the fact that he sent both o.
his own daughters to the United
States to receive their education
while many Mexicans who could af
ford to do so were sending thei
daughters to Paris instead, and ther'
appears to be evidence that Carranz;
is not really anti-American. Hi
daughters, who are now about % ant
25 years Of age respectively, wer
sent to St. Louis to school, and boil
speak English and seem to under
stand Americans. A number of hi
nephews and cousins were also edu
Gated at American schools.
Carranza is of this sort: he stand
head and shoulders over the littl
Mexican laborer who is so often con
sidered typical of the country's mer
He is six feet tall and weighs abou