Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-07-29
Tulsan Sojourning in Col
orado Writes an Inter
esting Article.
ILLITERACY RAMPANT
Ninety Per Cent of Mexi
cans Cannot Read or
Write, He Declares.
BY JOHN \. OLIPHANT.
cor Tulsa, L. $. A.

Special to The World.
MANITOU COL, July 2s.-While
here ] met two very intelligent MeM-
cans who had held office in Durango,
one Of the states of Mexico. They
had Travelled extensively throughout
the republic and appeared TO be we'll
posted on its history
Not being allied with any Of the
present chicftans who are striving to
control they are Independent. After
becoming somewhat acquainted.
through many questions, | secured
much information about that people,
who have been in war almost con-
stantly for over three hundred years.
Illitcracy.
out Of the present population over
90 per cent cannot read or write. The
education given them rs not Of such a
character as to make a strong inde-
pendent and self-rclying people. Con-
trolled and given out largely by the
church. the limits were so CirCum-
scribed as to not allow the greatest
latitude for the real fundamentals that
make for their fun independence and
self-rcliant citizenship. The church
has lost much OF its power to control,
with the masses through its greed,
oppression and unjust treatment.
The greater portion of the popu-
lation have not the natural faculties
to take on much Intellectual develop
mont. They are compelled to stop
at the very Threshold of intellectual
training. The children learn fairly
well, until they reach the ages of l6
for girls and 20 for boys, when they
lose both the desire and ability to
60 further with any degree Of sue
cess.
Mexican Indians.
Tho Mexican Indians are very
superstitiuous, ignorant and indolent
saVages, following the rule OF some
outlaw bandit to the end that they
may live without working and crafty
their beastly desires.
The bandit chiefs, Carranza, villa,
Iapata and others. are seeking to con-
troll by appealing to the ignorance
an dsavarery of the masses who fol-
low and obey their orders, however de
hauChed and criminal. American men
and women are robbed, killed and
brutally treated without mercy by
these outlaws People from other
countries have suffered the same fates.
The Washington government is aware
of all these things and has been for
years
A humane treatment cannot be sue
when it is we'll known that savageS
can and must govern the rulers
Anti-Amcrican.
They are against this country, be
cause they oppose civilized and
christian government II is our policy
ana principle they abhor and not our
flag. These, to my mind the fairest
MeXiCans | have met, say the only way
TO take care OF Mexico is for this
country to intervene and take control
and begin the work of educating and
civilzing the people, not for the few
but for the masses, and when n state
Is ready to become one of our Ameri-
can states, take it in as such and make
II a part of the union.
Mexico has tried for three hundred
years TO make a people worthy of a
real civilized government and has
failed. Now less than is per cent of
! the population are educated under
their rule, 80 that II is proven to be
unworthy of further trial or consid-
GRAFTON. They have disliked the
/ "grinRoes' and will continue so. as
/ long as time lasts, under the present
/ regime.
Origin of Gringo.
The term "gringo" originated when
/ General Taylor's army marched into
J
Grass in old Kentucky" The Mexi-
cans interpreted green grows" as
"grinEoes" and have ever since ap-
/ piled that term to the Americans
Il Taylor and many of his men wer,
1 from Kentucky, so they sang thai
\ song.
The policy outlined by these mer
will bc followed some day by our peo-
pie, to the end that Mexico will be-
come a part Of this country, and they
as q Part Of the union, will become ar
intelligent, loyal and contented peo,
pie. To undertake to purchase Mex
leo, as some are now advocating, Is
impossible, as there is no one to pur.
chase from and to assume the lega
liability will be price enough, as they
are now a bankrupt country and mus
be so for many years to come, as i
has been many years in the past.
Give us Mexico and Centra
America down to the Panama cana
and British North America viii
naturally come to the union. Their
this nation can rule the earth and be.
come supreme.