New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1916-03-29
with one demand, LA Tierre," '.The

Seven times they have been crushed
and beaten back to peonage- not by
Mexican plutocracy, but by that pluto
cracy leagued first with Spain, then with
the United States-in the Texas i'm
broglio and the American-Mexican war,
then with England, France and Spain
in the joint invasion under Macmillan,
then again with United States supporting
the petty army revolt which placed Diaz
IN power and expelled the Liberal Presi-
dent Tejada. Now the "'Villa raid'' is
repeated.
Former Revolts Crushed.
The poems have won. They have the
land for which they have fought so
valliantly and long. Now the cup of
freedom is to be dashed from their lips
and American intervention forced upon
them by this last desperate trick of
raising the cry, american blood has
been shed on American soil by Mexicans. !"
In 1910 the poems first rose in revolt,
demanding the land. The Mexican
landowners called in the aid of Spain.
The revolt was crushed by 100000
Spanish regulars. In 1924 they rose
again. Mexico was now independent.
This did not prevent the same land
owning element from inviting Spanish
intervention. They got it and the revolt
was aborted.
In 1885 again the poems rose. This
time in greater passion and power. At
the same time the American South was
casting longing eyes on Texas. 1t
wanted slave" votes to buttress its
waning power in the states. A pact was
made between the Mexican landowners
and the Southern planters. Santa Ana
headed villa raid" into Texas. A war
began, ending in the massacre of Alamo
and the cession of Texas-a cheap price
in the eyes of the Mexican plutocracy
for the heading off of domestic revolt.
Invasion of Last Century.
In 1916 the poems again arose, de-
handing the land Again, also, the
South wanted slave territory. Again
the pact was renewed. "War is better
than revolt" thought the landowners,
foreign invasion better than yielding
our great estates to the poems" War,
ending in the American acquisition of
New Mexico, Arizona and California
followed. The melting incident was an
unprovoked American foray into Mexico
"a "Villa raid"
In 1854, the poems rose again in
spontaneous unorganized mass movement
of such intensity that it swept them to
power.
In August, 1867, Juarez became the
first president under the new regime of
industrial democracy and free land.
In October of the same year the people
fought again to secure their right to free
land and representative government
and won.
Rise of Mexican in Peace.
For 10 years Mexico enjoyed an era
of prosperity and peace. Three million
poems had become land-owning farmers
and free men. Education was instituted.
Wall Street cast longing eyes on Mexi-
co, with it's rich land and mines and
forests and labor supply. Diaz, a mu-
tinous and ignorant army officer, proved
the ''Villa" of his time.
Backed by the same elements that are
now clamoring for intervention, he
gathered small force of malcontents
and seized Mexico City. Recognizing
that back of Diaz and his petty army
lay the economic and military might of
the United States, Pres. Tejada, rather
than subject his bleeding country to
new invasion, abandoned the capital.
Diaz installed himself at the point of the
bayonet and remained in the presidency,
except for one brief interval, "a years. J,
Diaz the Spoiler.
To the victor the spoils. Diza ousted
the 100000 farmers from their home
steads, massacring hundreds of thousands
of them in the process, carried on large
and hourishing slave traffic in the poems
who refused to resign themselves to his
will, parceled up the land and forests and
oil territories among the foreign interests
who had placed him in power, and retired
at the end of his career with 100000
pesos in cash.
Then came the Madero revolt. The
interests picked Huerta as their ''Villa."
He worked for them we'll murdered