East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-08-16
Huerta is CIassed With
Murderer Of Lincoln


Iarty of Mexico to promote a better
feeling and "a cooperation between the
American and Mexican people by dis
sipating the false Impressions that
each holds of the other. This cam
Iaign OF education is being carried on
in each Of the countries and he de-
clared that Mexican audiences now
listen patiently to the speakers when
at first they hooted and threw stones.
THE present hatred held by the
common people of Mexico is not only
relic Of the invasion OF 1846, but Is
especially due TO the necessity Of the
dictator. Diaz to have bugaboo for
the Mexicahs to fear. He impressed
upon their minds rear Of invasion
from the north, and, since hatred Is
the child OF fear, they learned to
hate also. The lands of which the
Aztecs were dispossessed We're granted
or sold to great American specula-
tors and monopolists, and Americans
resident in Mexico largely misrepre-
sented the true American spirit, so
that there was further cause for ha'
tired and suspicion"
Our MisinfOrmation.
American ignorance of Mexico, he
declared was due to a campaign OF
miseducat.on in regard to the lat
ter country, which had been consist
entity carried on by Daz and his Am
erican beneficiaries for the past 40
years, the purpose being to generate
contempt for the MeXicans which
would cause them to be generally dis
regarded. Indifference on the part
Of the common people OF this coun-
try meant that the MeXicans could be
completely dispossessed Of their
lands and reduced to slavery without
either protest or interference on the
part of the Americans.
The Ancient AAtecs.
He then took up the characteristics
and civilization Of the Ancient Az
tees. who. he declared, were now rec
ognized by ethnologIsts TO be part
of the great Aryan or Caucasian
race. similar to the Hindoos, ana
therefore, not only racially related
to the Anglo SaXons, Teutons, Scan
dnayiaus and Slays. but resembling
them in their capability for the use
of tools ana machinery their ability
to acquire knowledge. and their ca
pacity for government ana self-eon-
troll He characterized them as nat
ural agriculturists, with the native
traits OF industry, peacefulness, love
OF family and religious devotion.
He told of their civilization ana
government which was based upon
great sworn brotherhoods and was
of a very high order 80 long had
they lived at peace. not only among
themselves. but with their neighbors'
that when Cortez, the conquerer'
landed in 1913, the Aztecs had los;
/ the art Of war and had to send into
the mountain regions for the pro-
fessionaI hunters to come and teach
| them how TO make and use the bow
and arrow the slmgshot and the
spear
"Cortez overthrow the government
Of the Montezuma, oroke up the
great free br6therhoods and substi-
tuted the feudal system of Spain in
their stead He declared himself the
viceroy of SPAN, reduced the people
to subjection and divided all the rich
lands of Anahuac Cor New Spain. as
he named il among mis- soldiers. his
friends, the favorites of the Spanish
| king. and the sons of the Spanish
Grandies, about 900 persons altOgeth-
er. The great Aztec population,
compelled to seek employment from
these few land holders, soon became
slaves. and the 290 years of the
Spanish occupation was a period of
idleness and luxury for the "hacien-
dados" and the privileged classes,
while the common people sank deep
er and deeper in degrading servil-
ity.
The constitution
In 1857 the people came into
power and established the constitution
Of that year--a constitution which is
regarded by statesmen as one of the
graa+ast nublip dncuments ever inter-