The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-23
(By GEORGE MINER.)

York newspaper man. He has held editorial positions on the World, Her. aid, Sun and other papers, and has done good work as a European cor respondent. He is thoroughly con- versant with conditions in Mexico, whence he only recently returned. MT. Miner first went to Mexico 10 years ago. at which time he made the acquaintance of President Porfirfo Diaz, whom he persuaded to agree to an arrangement whereby the United States and Mexico would join in pre- serving order in Central America. protecting property, fostering trade and preventing senseless revolutions. This bill was introduced into Con- sress, but was defeated. At that time Nr. Miner travelled all over Mexico, } vkom the Rio Grande to the Isthmus A Tehuantepec.-EditO
 Mexico, bruised and bleeding, is on her knees struggling to get up. Wheth- CT she rises and stands and takes her place among the nations of the earth depends very largely on the re-elec- tion of President Wilson.
 : Failing that, Mexico will be knock ted prostrate again, as surely as any, tthing can be, and all her five years Eof struggle will have been for naught. Her salvation depends on the con- tinuance of President Wilson's patient and farseeing policy. If this policy Is deviated from, or a wantonly ag- gressive policy substituted, the re- suit will be the encouragement Pf ,awlessness and the bandit element, more civil strife and possibly. anarchy.
 Then to save Mexico and the half billion dollars 6f American money in- vested there, the work of the revolu- ton will have to be done all over again. Mexico is in no condition to stand five years more of internal strife. She has had enough of it. She Is pretty we'll worn out with it.
 Surprising as it may seem. in view of the fact that we have large American army on the border, the great atority of Mexican people are warm admirers of President Wilson. They believe he is their sincere friend. They are confident that he does not want to steal their country or confiscate valuable concessions for the benefit of greedy American capitalists.
 They realize that the American army is on the Rio Grande to sup press and, if possible, eliminate the bandits and outlaws and not to fight the Mexican people and capture the country. None wants to see that done-the elimination of the bandits and outlaws-more than the Mexicans themselves, for they have suffered hundred times more from the dfpreda- tfons of these marauders than have any other nationals.
 I have put that percentage far too low. I believe I am safe in saying that for every American who has been killed or wronged by bandits down there, there are at least five hundred Mexicans who have suffered equally.
 Of course in the United States we hear only of the outrages that have been committed on our own country men. We hear nothing of how the 1Iexdcans themselves have suffered from the operations of the followers of Villa and Zapata or from bands of desperados who call themselves. or rather who are called, followers of those two williams. The Mexicans had their fill of that sort of trouble when the whole country was at war and there was no peace anywhere. They are sick and tired of it all and long
 
 deem their country without any poli- tical upheavals.
 And that is just what is happening in Mexico. - She has come up vic- torious from the struggle of civil war and is on her knees.
 (All that is needed is the moral sup port of the United States to lift Mex leo to her feet and assure her peace and prosperity. She has the right start. The revolution has been a suc- cess Nobody can deny that. The Constitutional Government is we'll es- tablished. Nobody can deny that either, for it has absolute control of more than, nine-tenths of the country, over which it maintains good order.
 know this is 50, for I have just come from there and have been In Mexico a large part of the time since last January. It was my privilege to visit various parts of the republic, to make the personal acquaintance of nearly all the leading men in the De Facto Government to learn the real sentiments of the peons and the great mass of the population, to note the reforms that are being inaugurated and to watch the steady rehabilitation of business.
 l do not speak from hearsay or from the exaggerated or entirely imaginary dispatches that have ap- peared in certain American/ news papers. It is a well known fact, by the way, that these articles are in spired by well organized junta for the deliberate purpose of misrepre- senting conditions in Mexico and creating friction between the two countries. There are number of powerful and wealthy interests that are using every possible means to bring about clash, actuated by the hope of financial gain or for revenge. They know perfectly well that con- quest of Mexico would mean that to the victors belong the spells.
 In this big land of Mexico, which is now just emerging from its travail, there are still occurring now and then some disturbances and, at almost rare intervals, there are instances where grievous outrages have been committed. It has happened that people have been killed. women out ragged and property stolen or destroy ed. There is no doubt about it.. The Mexican government announces 1t and takes every possible means to catch and punish the wrongdoers.
 These horrors and outrages are isolated instances, however, and in no way reflect the real condition that exists in most of Mexico. The Mex ican officials deplore and abhor them as much as we do. and so do the y6o< f1A