Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1916-07-21

stitutionalist army of Mexico visited
Pullman this week and Tuesday
evening addressed Eood sized
crowd at the corner of Main and AL
der streets. He is a civil engineer, a
graduate of Cornell University and
has lived in Mexico for over 80
years. He served in Madero's army
as a captain of artillery and now
holds the position of colonel of en-
gineers in the Carranza forces. He
is one OF $50 representatives, all
American born, who have been sent
into the United States by the Car
rama government to place before
the people OF this country the real
situation existing in Mexico and the
attitude Of the MeXicans toward this
| government.
Col. Ledwidgc is a man of ability
and an excellent speaker thorough
ly posted on his subject and imbued
with patriotic love of his adopted
country. In his address here he
said. in part:
THE campaign OF education being
| conducted by the Mexican Liberal
party in the United States at this
time, is intended to effect a spread
of knowledge among the American
people, concerning the poems re-
/ bellion in unhappy Mexico. The
( Liberals realize that the grossest
mis-information exists in the Amer
| lean mind, and that calm and dispas-
sionate action on the part of the
! great republic of the north can only
! be secured by u dissemination of the
! truth TO the body of the people.
| Great private interests in both the
/ United States and European coun-
/ tries are deeply interested in gener
| ating a wave of hysteria which shall
sweep the great commonality off
/ their feet and induce them to con-
sent to an immoral and humanely
/ indefensible armed intervention or
! invasion of the southern republic.
To counteract this influence, and in
duce reasoned consideration of the
great issues involved, is the task of
! the Liberal party.
Fighting to Restore the Land
No matter what other issues may
! be involved, the fact must never be
obscured that the common people
the peon population-ar fighting
! for the restoration of the lands,
which have been wrested from them,
! by force, fraud and vicious legal en-
actments. Probably no other people
/ of modern times have been so bit
terly exploited and despoiled as have
been the native population of Mex
! leo, and consequently no other coun-
! try has been the scene of greater or
more numerous popular uprisings
With all the despotism, both military
and economic, to which they have
been subjected, the great powers Of
resistance-the will to fight back
of the Aztec race has not been finally
broken. At the call of their leaders
they have consistently taken the field
whenever there appeared a reason
able chance of success, and, although
betrayed and deceived in many in
stances, they have never despaired
that heroic action must finally re-
store them to the status of freemen.
Dispossesion of Mexican Labor
"Monopolization of the lands in
the hands of few people, and the
social and political abuses that flow
from monopoly are the source OF all
the troubles in Mexico. The monop-
oily began with the conquest by Cor
tez in 1919. when he partitioned the
country among his soldiers and the
fayorites of the Spanish king. The
native population became enslaved
to the great landholders and were
reduced to the lowest depths of deg
radiation. Yet the will to be free
was there, and no history mot even
that of ancient Gaul is more tragic
than that of the Mexicans, as they
struggled back to liberty and the free
use of the lands.
The Constitution of 1857
THE constitution of 1S57-the
greatest state paper ever written
was the first great triumph OF the
CONNIE on people. but the fruits OF