Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-08-05
More Hope for Mexico

/ a OPTIONAL warrant for hope that the
differences between the United States
| and Mexico will reach satisfactory solution
at the approaching conference is to be found
| i'll the composition of the Mexican commits
| sion. Associated Press dispatches describe
! the members named by Carranza as among
| the nblcst and most progressive men in
| Mexico. They have been selected, it would
seem with a view TO their special fitness for
discussing the economic and industrial cues
tions which inspired the Madero revolution
and its successors and which are the primary
cause OF existing difficulties
1t is to he assumed, therefore, that Car
rama is willing 10 have the conference CON
slider other matters than the raids of bandits
on the American border and the presence of
American troops Mexican soil. Bandit
raids and punitive expeditions are but links
III long chain of cause and effect. Back OF
all is the fact that the people of Mexico have
been stripped of their lands, their liberties
and their national wealth by a constituencies
ruling class. for the benefit OF that class and
n horde of foreign concessionaires Until
there is established a government that has
some regard for popular rights, that will
foster elementary education. encourage agr-
culture. restore the land to the peon and
consider MeXico's enormous natural re-
sources as national asset rather than Il
private grab-bag. revolutions will continue
When life has been robbed OF its sweetness
its security and its opportunity, men have
small adherence OF crime and little fear
OF death
So. ii the problem really is to be settled
the inJustices from which it evolves must be
rectiiied. There is neither rime nor reason
IN Smearing the surface OF the difficulty with
q thin coating OF peace paint. The commits
sion must 20 10 the bottom OF the trouble
1t has been said that Associate Justice
Louis ID. Brandeis OF the United States Su-
premc Court: will head the American COM
mission. Ii social and economic questions
are 10 be considered, no better selection could
he made for Justice Brandeis has given a
great pert OF his life 10 the Investigation and
adjustment OF such issues The Mexican
commission is headed by Luis Cabrera. a
lawyer and fnancier, and the two other mem
bers are engineers. One OF them. Ygnacio
Bonilas. was graduated from an American
college and lived for many years in this
country. while the other Alberto PAM. is
ne head OF MeXico's national railways.
MeIico's men OF blood and iron. her imitation
Gictators. CORY generals and wordy advocates
are corspicuously absent from the commits
s!on's personnel
We ind hope in these c!rcurp stances 7,
is true that the establishment o: good govern.
ment IL Mexico is not TO be achieved by any
commission, however able or high-minded
and that the process will consume wears and
perhaps generations, rather than DAYS. weeks
or months. Nevertheless. the right sort of
commission car lay foundation. 10, only
OF good government n Mexico Blu. OF anicab,a
relations between that country and This
mat is Inc task o: the Conference ami -
approached IN the -.Et: sp!-:, :, -y!ll be ac
comp,ished.