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great domestic and foreign interests.
t 10 new revolution in 1876, anu
oy means of the threat of foreign in
,asloh an event horrifying to the
MeAlcahs), overcame all resistance and
compelled the election of himself to the
presidency OF the republic. Once in
power, he greatly strengthened the
army, both in numbers and in eouin
ment, and established himself as a
nilitary dictator; and for "a wears. nv
the practice of every artifice and sinh
.erfuge, and the exercise of despotie
iorce, compelled the Mexican people to
submit to his will. The schools were
aooilshed, the lands of the people were
selzed and granted in concessions to
mexican, American and foreign specu.
iators, the people themselves were mur-
uereo or dragged to Yucatan, where
th'y were sold into slavery. The lands
ana other natural resources were again
mooinopollzed, and the great Aztec popu.
latloh again fell into the depths of a
degrading peonage. Words are ineap-
able OF expressing the woeful condition
OF the Mexican people. Those who have
never come in contact with such miserj
can not believe that it ever existed.
Plutocracy had its day. and the
pendulum swings again towards de-
mocracy Francisco Madero organic
ed the successful revolution of 1910 and
fortlrio Diaz fled to Spain with about
100000, 900 of the nations wealth. But
Madero was not a practical executive
The reforms he had advocated he could
not put in force. The clique who sur
rounded him babe fair to become a
replica of the Diaz regime.
The reactionary Huerta, siezing a
favorable opportunity, caused the death
OF Madero and endeavored to establish
In power those interests that HAD
flourished in the days of Porfirio Diaz,
but his triumph was short lived. A new
revolution, under the leadership of
Nenusiano Carranza and Francisco Villa
sprang up. The poems, with the awak-
enlng constitution of their strength
and the ardent zeal to reestablish the
constitution of 1857, rushed to arms,
Huerta IN his madness sought to pro,
woke American Intervention, but only
succeeded in inducing measures on the
part of the American executive that en-
abled the constitutionlist forces to ac-
complish his over throw and expulsion.
"Internal dissentions among the con
stitutionalists prevented the complete
pacification of the country. Carranza
and Villa parted company. The more
constructive elements of the people
rallied to the support of Carranza, and
Villa, finding his cause losing one,
conspired with the great monopolistic
interests, just as Huerta and Diaz had
done before him, to secure American in
tervention in the quarrel. The raid up
on Columbus, New Mexico, was the re-
suit of this madness and the American
government, with the consent of Genera
Carranza, dispatched troops into Mexico
to hunt down the marauding bands.
Apparently the purpose of that ex
petition has been accomplished. While
Villa himself has not been captured
his badly decimated forces have been
scattered in the mountains of Durango
Discredited among the thinking anC
Influential Mexicans, who support the
cause of the constitution, there is little
fear that Villa can ever again raise 6
force that by any stretch of imagination
can be called an army. More than that
the land reforms, which are to bt
rapidly put into effect, by means o.
which every person may become free
holder of land sufficient for his use
will realize the ambitions of the poem
and rob Villa of any appeal he nigh
have been able to make to them.
with the distribution of the land
and the return of the people to tn
peaceful pursuits of agriculture tn
peaceful pursuits of agriculture III
pacification of the turbulent element
will go rapidly forward and there ca
be no doubt that Mexico will shortl.
be moving forward on an era of pros
perity similar to that of the days 0
Benito Juarez''