Iditarod pioneer., 1917-04-21
LOOKS TO UNITED STATES
 TO ALLEVIATE DISTRESS

 wears a member of the Mexican chamber of deputies, an adviser of the governments of Diaz, De Ia Barra, Madero and Huerta, and who, like many other prominent Mexl- cans, has taken up his residence ln New York rather than acquiesce in lawless meth ods of any of the present leaders, sums up conditions in his unhappy country Tn an m teryiew with the Wall Street Journal as fol- lows:
 "Placed by fate and nature the next door neiehbor of the United States, With the economic and social development of some fifteen millions burdened by teudal sys- tenn of land tenure that forces four-htths to seek such personal freedom to live as marauding warfare affords, Mexico must look nowhere else than to thls country, o1 nigh ideals, of immeasurable resources, for encouragement, financial aid and moral sup port to alleviate our dire social and indus trial success.
 II am not pro-Carranza, or pro-Vllla. l am Mexican. and that am quite content to be. Carranza Villa! They are per sonaI accidents. Mexico is not concerned with their future. Mexico IS deadly inter ested in reforms that will render future Huertas, Carranzas and Villas impossible. Carranza has proclaimed constitutions; so has Villa. What are they? They are de- crees of men whose power and influence will disappear when the constitutional pnn- ciples of which they talk so much are once firmly established.
 What is back of our political troubles Dur land laws. l have examined the land registries of Mexico They show but 5000 propertv owners. One of these held seventy seven farms Irish agrarlanlsm was excused and Ireland's land laws reformed forty years ,go when there were 72,000 landlords out of 4OOO 900 people. We have 5000 land lords out of l5,OOO,000, and among them selves they have parceled out and hold the beautiful semi-troplc, prlcelessly rich valleys of Mexico, beyond whose luxurious abun- dance the wandering Aztecs cared not to migrate.
 We must settle the revolutionary Mexican on the land You here have enjoyed the unspeakable blessings of liberty and prl- vate property under law for over 200 years The Mexican laborer will not surrender the personal freedom that war and loot afford, the only freedom he has ever known. He will not give up his horse, rifle and accou- trements and go back to peonage Of soil not his own We must appropriate the land government must sell 1t on nomlnai terms to the man who works 1t. We must make and you must assist Us to make 1t worth while to the lower class Mexican to settle down, build up home and support a gov ernment responsible for his property rights. on bo nrOSnPrPI and grown great you have not once helped us. Your intervention in our affairs Is mls- understood and its motives even lmpugned Absolute intervention and American mllI- tarv control, deplorable as It would have ,een, would have been better for us and for you than what you have done Abso- lute non-interference would have been lnh- nitey better than either"
 Asked if he suspected that there had been an active German military propaganda III Mexico, the senor said emphatically: There unuuestonably has been since the growing rupture with Germany became apparent. l have in my lectures again and again warned hundreds of thousands of Americans that Mexican revolutionists, including Carranza, would prove ingrates and would under Ger man OncerS turn ElleS ahu macil4he guns they bought from you against your own sons. They will do this not because they love America less but because they have no future beyond revolution, disorder and pill lage-their modus vivendi.
 "The Mexican people do not hate you; they look up to you, To the lower class Washington is the world. Fate has made of them your hepless neighbors. With your capital, your resourcefulness in handling great undertakings, you have the means to mollify them, to place them on the road to political tranquility You can now ere ate the first real historic understanding be- tween them and yourselves. If you do not, they will yield to the German temptation of more arms. more money, more pillage"