The Alaska daily empire., 1917-03-16
Resources Must Be Given To Alleviate the Dire Social Industrial
 Distress.
CONDITIONS SUMMED UP
Mexico Deadly Interested in Reforms That Will Put Down All the
 RebelIionS.

nelghbor of the United States, with
 the economic and social develop.
 mert of some fifteen million bur.
 dened by a feudal system of land
 tenure that forces four.fifths to seek
 such personal freedom to live as marauding warfare affords. Mexico
 must look nowhere else than to this country of high ideals, of immeas- iureable resources, for encourage.
 ment, financial aid, and moral sup port, to alleviate our dire social and
 industrial distress" In these words
 Scnor Emetcrlo de la Garza sums up
 conditions in an interview with the
 Wall Street Journal.
 The senor was 12 years a mem
 Der of the Chamber of Deputies, an
 adviser of the governments of Diaz,
 de Ia Barra, Madero and of Huerta,
 and, as many other prominent MeXi-
 cans, has taken up residence here.
 rather than acquiesce in lawless
 methods of any of the present lead
 CTS
 q am not pro.Carranza or pro.
 Villa" he said. q am a Mexican
 and that am quite content to be. Carranza! Villa! They are person.
 al accidents Mexico is not con
 cerned with their future. Mexico is
 deadly interested in reforms that
 will render future Huertas. Carran. gas, and Villas impossible. Carran.
 a has proclaimed constitutions; so
 has Villa. What are they? They | are decrees of men whose power
 and influence will disappear when 1 the constitutional principles of which
 they talk so much are once firmly established
 What is back of our political troubles? Our land laws. have
 examined the land registries of Mex ! leo. They show but 5000 property owners. One of these held 77 farms. Irish agrarianism was excused and Iroland's land laws reformed 40 years ago when there were 72OOO landlords out of 100000 people We have 5000 landlords out of 15- 100000, and among themselves they have parceled out and hold the beau. tirul semi.tropic, pricelessly rich val. ley of Mexico. beyond whose luXur ious abundance the wandering Az tees cared not to migrate
 "We must settle the revolutionary Mexican on the land You here have enjoyed the unspeakabIc blessings of liberty and private property under law for over 200 years. The Mexi. can laborer will not surrender the personal freedom that war and loot afford, the only freedom he has cv. CT known. He will not give up his horse, rifle and acOutremGnts and go back Co peonagc of a soil not his own. We must appropriate the land government must sell it on nominal terms to the man that works it. We must make and you must assist us to make it worth while to the lnwer class Mexican to settle down, build up a home and support govern. ment responsible for his property 1 rights
 During all the time you have prospered and grown great. you have not once helped us. Your intorvon- ton in our affairs is misunderstood . and its motives even impunged, Alb. 8olutc intervention and American military control. deplorable as it would have been, would have been better for us and for you than what you have done. Absolute non.in. terfcrence would have been infin. itely better than either"
 Asked if he suspected there had been an active German military in Mexico. the senor said There unquestiOnably has been since the growing of rup. .ure with Germany became appar- ent. have in my lectures again and again warned hundreds of thou. sands of Americans that Mexican | 'evolutionists. including Carranza, would prove ingrates, and would un- Ter German officers turn rifles and machine guns they bought from you ,ganst your own sons They will 10 this not because they love Ameri- ans less but because they love no uture beyond revolution, disorder nd pillage-their modus yiyendi.
 The Mexican people do not hate ou; they look up to you To the over class Washington is the world ate has made of them your help ess neighbors. With your capital, our resourcefullness in handling reat undertakings, you have the leans to mollify them, to place them n the road to political tranquility. .ou can now create the first real istoric understanding between them nd yourselves. If you do not, they ill yield to the German tempta- on of more arms, more money, lore pillage."