The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-08-27
THE MEXICAN QUESTION.
Writes an American resident of Tuxpan
TO the New York World:

TO the New York World:
An American is safer this minute in any of the
cities of Mexico than Mexican in the cities OF
Texas If claims for citizens to be presented,
Mexico will have much larger list for her cit
liens killed in Texas than will have for Amer
ing badgering, abusive treatment OF poor Mex
lean families along the border
Almost at the same time Oscar Miro
Ouesada. editor of Ell Concrete, of Lima,
Peru, a Senator a1d world traveller, was
saving the following in an interview to an
American journalist, and he was expressing
the thought of Latin America when he
spoke;
1t is too common to see in our Latin American
papers exaggerated accounts of strikes, lynchings,
and murders, while the spirit and progress of the
people in the United States often escapes US; you,
on the other hand, are inclined frequently to
large upon the weak places in our life and gov
eminent.
There are indeed two sides to the Mexi-
can question; it is thrice unfortunate there.
fore that distinguished gentleman like Mr..
Hughes, one who aspires to the highest
position within the gift of great people,
should have so far adopted the popular con-
ception of the Mexican problem, which is
based on transformation and ignorance, as
apparently to regret that we are not now
at war with Our neighbor south of the Rio
Grande.
OF course the Tuxpan letter is over
drawn; but fact we Americans need driven
into our consciousness is that the Mexicans
believe themselves to be as much wronged
as we believe ourselves. And as matter
of fact, they are-we refer to the people at
large, and not to the politicians in power by
whom they are exploited as piteously in
warfare as they are in time of peace by
peonage.
All the hard names we have called the
z Mexicans are as nothing compared with the
hard names they have called us. We think
bull fighting horrible but the Mexican idea
of pugilism is that it degrades us to the
: lowest point of barbarism. They are every
bit as sincere in their opinion as we are
and every bit as right. This is merely BY
way of Illustration.
The truth of the matter is that Mexico
suffers from the misgovernment of cen
turtles. This is due to the lack of education
but though the people are not as far de
,veloped along economic and political line
eas we are, they are none the less human, ans
president Wilson's policy is wise and civil
LIKED in refusing to slaughter misguided
ksincere misunderstanding people in who's
kgore Hughes would like to wade, TIL
twentieth century conquistador.
/ A large number of the states of Mexic
Eare today at peace; from out of chaos, orde
is rapidly appearing. The political auto
kcrats will eventually be killed off or sen
Eabout their business-but not before man
years have passed. Not until the peopl
Fhave been taught through the wise an
patient policy of the United States that W
lmean them we'll; that their deve1opmer
Twill mean our development; that the day c
lexploiting oil wells and mineral conces
sions with American guns is past.
Anarchy and Instruction still subsist
the northern states, and there will be per
odic bandit incursions into the Unite
States. But how much better it is fc
Americans and Mexicans to ride side
side-as they did the other day-again.
the common enemy of society, than to |
slaughtering each other for no cause G
Eearth except that neither side can unde
hstand each others point of view.
The action of the New York publisher
lin decreasing the number of pages in the