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~. AS a result mOnOpOleS
under foreign control, prompted
the field of enterprise. The COM
merce Of Mexico is almost entire
~ foreign. Domestic traffic is
rendered difficult by geographical
c0nformation; internal commerce
is slight. "The political prob
lens in Mexico" DR.. Greenfield
said, "are rooted in the variety of
the population, and are not as
easily solved as Americans as
sumo. AS to international rela-
lions, since 1847, it has been i'm
possible for the Mexican people to
regard the United States without
suspicion as to its imperialistic
ambitions. Mistrust has not been
allayed by Vera Cruz and PERISH
ing expeditions, and by the fact
that in the present campaign one
Of the political parties avowed it.
self in favor of intervention
The honest and consistent efforts
OF the Democratic administration
to overcome mistrust have not
sufficed. Enough of it is present
to encourage the hopes of for
eign nation hostile to the United
States. But in the case of an at
tack, the Mexican nation would
rally to continental solidarity
The story of the handling of
these problems by former govern
ments would be a catalogue of
mistakes. The Carranzistas hold !
that the remedy is not to be
found in detailed corrections, but
in radical reconstruction.
"But what about the disorder,
and the continued use of force,
you ask? These can only be
judged fairly as incidentals of a
process, hot as if they. were the
result. Force, instruction, may
be the means of liberty. When
poverty, ignorance, and vice are
the result of an administration
that is inefficient or corrupt, the
remedy is to be found in correct
i've laws or in a change of lead !
ers. But when they are due to a
system inherently vicious, the
only recourse is revolution, which
is the substitution of a new sys-
tenn from the old. The use of
force is not essential. But as in
personal, so in public revolu-
lions Sacrifices are necessary. And
there are always many, the sell
fish, the conservative, who will
not leave their entrenchements
unless compelled. Revolution, be-
cause it attacks the system that
produces all the associations of
law and order, seems always a re-
volt against government and law
"The Maderos' govern ent
compromised. 1t did not destroy
the existing system. It's leader
failed to see that more was need
ed than a reform of politics
Huerta represented reaction pure
ly and simply, based on criminal
use of force.
Zone month after Madero's
death, Carranza issued the Plan
of Guadalupe, which pledged the
RevolutiOnists not to abandon the
use of arms until the last vestiges
of the old regime were destroyed,
and when this destructive period
of the revolution began, Europe
and United States expected this
to end with the entry of Carranza
into Mexico City and the flight of
Huerta. But the subsequent re-
turn of refugees from abroad and
a rally among the reactionary in
terests which this encouraged,
opened second epoch, in which it
was evident that the work of de-
struction must continue.
"In spite of this, at the darkest
hour of his fortune, Carranza is
sued from Vera Cruz in December
1914, decree which was little
noticed because it was not sensa-
tional, but which began even then
the work of reconstruction and
"At first the outside world saw
Carranza as a revolutionist chief
tain, having resorted to force;
now they see him as a democrat
yielding to the will of his peo-
ple'.
The nature of the movement be-
hind Carranza is such that it's
leaders may change or succumb to
fortune, but it will go on. The
end is not yet; but in this revolu-
ton for the first time it has been