The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-11-10
HISTORY OF MEXICO.
BY Eber Cole 5yam.
PART XVIII.

''The Mexican social revolution
against the brutality of the Catholic
Church, against the injustice of special
privileges and of foreign monopolies,
is a revolution that no, human power
can STOP
He further states:
To-day there are twenty times as
) many schools in Mexico as there were
in the days of the Dictator Porfirio
Diaz."'
If that be so, then there are two
hundred and forty thousand centers
of Carranza corruption.
The Governor of the State of Yucatan.
In a pamphlet repeating speech
of Alvarado we find that apostle Of
the /. w. w.. saying:
Nineteen hundred and sixteen years
of history, nineteen hundred and six
teen years of political life in that
caste, or social element, have taught
us that these men (the clergy) are,
and always have been shams who have
at odd times, in order to secure their
ends, feigned and deceived and taught
the world anything except the truth
And that was said before the as
sembled teachers in the "Pedagogic
Congress"
Alvarado claims to have closed the
churches and opened the schools. If
his teachers inculcate such Liberal
philosophy in the minds of the Next
can youth, where will Mexico end?
Alvarado says:
1--WE are justified in attacking the
clergy in our own country on account
of the Infamous conduct which it has
always observed in regard to our
families, society and the country
1t must always be borne in mind
that the attacks on the Church and
clergy are but paraphrases of the anti
Catholic attacks so long waged on
clergy in the United States.
Another writer, by name ROLAND,
speaks of the ''socialistic IDEAL" and
the "socialistic regeneration" of Mex
ico He also refers to Yucatan and
says:
Next the priests who used to be
ed by school"
There were just ninety-four secular
priests in the State of Yucatan be.
fore the revolution.
To the foregoing there should be add
ed II of religious Orders and Sc Mar
list Brothers; total of lat to care
for a population of over 100000. The
proportion is to 1881. In the United
States, the proportion is / to 555
or four times as great as Yucatan.
A certain julius Moritzen contrib.
utes a pamphlet, titled Mexico Re
born" and in it he says:
Secretary of the Interior, Franklin
X. Lane, is authority for the state
ment that President Wilson has clear
ly seen the end to be desired from
the first and that he has worked to-
ward it against an opposition that was
cunning and intensive, persistent and
powerful. If he succeeds in giving q
new birth of freedom to Mexico, he
most surely will receive the verdict
of mankind
The anti-Catholic knows perfectly
we'll what is meant by the foregoing
After complaining that the exiles in
the United States are fomenting a
propaganda against Carranza, Mr.
Moritzen says:
Fortunately, the Washington adj
ministration for some time has been
taking cognizance of this state of af
fairs, and there is a possibility that
measures will be adopted to stop the
reactionary propaganda in this coun
try. The work of the exile group has
been factor in the Withholding OF
credit on any extensive scale touching
loans to Mexico. Mexico needs
money; there is no doubt of this; and
if money is to be obtained, where else
may government look except to the
United States?"
There is where the shoe pinches
after the repeated warnings that il
never would be repaid.
To educate the American people
Mr.. Moritzen locates new center OF
'socialistic propaganda"
With headquarters at 20 Fifth Ave
nue., New York City, the Mexican
American League is evidently destined
to play conspicuous role in the work
of upbuilding the relations between
the two countries. When the National
Education Association met in New
York, during July of the present year
Q916), DIR. David Starr Jordan, Chan
cellor of the Leland Stanford Uni
versity, and member of the Mex
lean American League committee, de
livered notable address on the Mex
lean situation, in which he touched on
the effect of the revolution on the
Weather classes
DR.. David Starr Jordan is an ardent
eulogist of Alvarado who drove all
the priests from Yucatan.
To further enlighten u.s.. Mr.. Nor
itzen says:
BE on your guard, workers of the
United States. The Columbus raid
all the nti-Mexican agitation, all the
meetings, all the lectures and publ;
cations of our foes in the great Amer
lean cities, are only for the purpose
of drowning in blood the desires of a
brother people who have had the cour-