El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-02-28
SAYS CARRANZA
RULEPERNANENT
Only Men of Character and
Ability Given Office Says
Observant American.
After Carranza what?


An American who has lived in Mexico
for many years and who has been in
and out of the disturbances and
tragedies that have wrecked northern
Mexico, replies, There won't be any
after. Carranza has come to stay"
If" says the American adopting one
of Roosevelts favorite salutations,
tine people OF the border could under
stand and appreciate that Gen. Car
rama has only been appointing men Of
ability and character to the positions
of governors and military chiefs; that
he has in the face Of sneers, continued
quietly and determinedly in evolving
economic measures that will best meet
the demands of a Latin people, there
would be more encouragement and less
knocking.
Governor Enriquez Of Chihuahua
state is a broadgaged man, thoroughly
conscientious in meeting. response
hilities that are placed upon him and
a man who. unlike the satellites Of the
Diaz regime, desires to see Mexico en-
ter upon period of real democracy
rather than the feudal conditions which
the Cientifico movement engendered.
Herrera Wins Respect.
Gen. LUZ Herrera, who is COM
mander Of the Chihuahua army, while
honesty and integrity and for the brief
time that he has been in Chihuahua has
won the respect and confidence Of the
Nillistas who have been granted am
nesty; the neutrals who have remained
silent; and the Americans who have
stuck by their homes and shops.
Cites Gavira and PrietO.
Gen. Gabriel Gavira, who is now
commander Of the Juarez garrison, and
M. M. Prieto, the mayor Of Juarez, are
examples OF the new type Of men that
the Carranza movement inspires"
1t is interesting 10 observe the
criticism that is made from all sides
in America, in New York as well as
along the border as TO the instability
Of the Carranza money. And in the
same breath comes the general asser-
ton that Carranza and his cabinet
cannot borrow money. The truth is
that Carranza and his advisors have
at no time entertained any idea OF Civ
ing strength to the present issue Of
currency. The purpose is TO let 1t die
out and upon plan yet to be an
nounced, float a new issue and sustain
the value OF that issue by a gold and
silver reserve
Substitute for Loan.
The currency now used and down,
as 1 understand, to three and four
cents, is merely a substitute for a war
loan. Instead Of the government finan-
cling war loan and shouldering O
great debt, It has instead distributed
that burden among the people OF
Mexico. It is not the poor who have
the present issue but the weather.
classes and spectators instead Their
loss is no more than the ordinary war
tax that would have been imposed in
times of stress in any other country.
We, too, may look with scepticism
upon the apparent indifference as to
the expectation of certain raw products.
The men Of the new Mexico have
through long wears of experience come
to realize that the only wealth of
nation is in what it produces; and that
a nation has no wealth who starves
its people in a land of abundance. In
stead, therefore, of shipping out vast
quantities of cotton, it proposes to use
the staple so far as possible in its own
mills; instead Of shipping out its hides
it Will use them In the making OF shoes
in its own manufactures; instead of
sending its metals and ores away, IL
proposes to use some Of these metals
and ores in its own reconstruction.
Casually. many of the ideas that arc
now coming out Of QueretarO may
sound unsound economically: but the
brains and energy Of a country that
has suffered much are evolving new
ideas and new principles and in doing
so, deserve the patience and considera-
ton Of the outside world"