The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-01-27
A Special Bargain for this Week
1922 jackson Street

That which is under the decline of
the Mexican is his deep immortality.
1t will take long time to clean him
up. 1t is not the work of a day or
generation
We agree with the Boston writer
referred to by Vindex. 'The Mexicans
as people are gentle, wonderfully
polite to some people, white men, etc.
He is certainly happy in his ignorance.
His wants are SO few for his knowl-
edge is so limited"
Vindex, if being baptized and re-
ceiVing the Communion constitutes a
Christian the MeXicans are wonderful
Christians. My judgment is that they
are religious but not Christian. And
no church has the power to make a
man a Christian simply by his con-
forming to the standards of the
Church
It would give re a great deal OF
pleasure to have the opportunity of
presenting the only solution l see for
the Mexican problem before your con
stituency.
When VindeX says that | advocated
the idea of the American people going
over and taking the country in the
manner he describes he must be
charged with having a lapse of mem
DRY between the time of my address
and his getting down to write a re-
port of the meeting for your paper.
said that it would be a shame for us
to go into Old Mexico for any other
purpose than helping to life the Mexi
can into peace and happiness. would
not, and / said so, have a man cross
the Rio Grande in defense of all the
money invested in Old Mexico. ONLY
one motive should take us across and
that is to help him. / also said that
when he has been made sane and
thinking it was our duty to come out,
Let me say in closing that I am not
an enemy of the Roman Catholic.
Church, as Vindex would infer. 7
wish to go on record here and now, as
| have from many Chautauqua plat
form in this country, in saying that
the Mexican problem can never be solv-
ed by any man or nation that fails to
stand for true religious liberty. The
Catholic is there and has been there a
long time. He will be there for centu-
ries to come and am not against his
being there. What Mexico needs is
the school house, state or parochial,
they must have the school. 1t is i'm
possible to found a republican form of
government on eighty-five per cent of
illiteracy. You cannot deny that fact.
Mexico has never had an election in
her history. They held one every six
years during Diaz time, but it was not
an election for the reason that not
enough votes were polled to constitute
an election under the Mexican law.
Sincerely yours,
D. T. ROBERTSON.
P. 81 am not a disappointed inves-
tor in Old Mexico. was not in Old
Mexico working on, at, or about plan
tation. | travelled the country lover
with great care making a study of the
country and it's people. I know them.
| have lived in the houses and been bit
by their bugs, and ate nothing but
fruit, as could not eat with the dirt
evident on the cook. have two shares
in a Mexican plantation and they are
| as good as gold. will give them any
day to help Mexico come to her own
| and will give as much more in cash
| rather than take the chance of having
either of my sons have to enter the
| country to fight to have it become a
possession of this country. l believe
| in Mexico for the Mexicans. Every
| man whose name is before us today
in Old Mexico is seeking his own and
not another's good.
Thanking you for your interest, am
| sincerely,
| D. T. ROBERTSON.