The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-08-07
!. p. Hauser Says Disturbed
Country Is Worth Saving
and That Carranza
Can Save 1t.
PEOPLE ARE misunderstood
Nexicans Are Naturally Peace-Loving
But Are Made Rebels and Bandits
BY Ambitious Demagogues
and Pulka.

That Mexico is a field for mission
aries rather than rendezvous for NAL
contents and desperadoes was the mes
yage brought to Kenosha on Sunday
evening by ]. P. Hauser, the speaker
at the fourth session of the Summer
Forum which was held at The usual hour
In the Park Avenue Methodist church.
Mr.. Hauser is qualified to speak with
authority about the disturbed country
south of the Rio Grande. He has lived
in and around Mexico City for more
than seventeen years He mas held con-
ferenees under the shadow of Popoca-
tapetl and plead his cause against the
bandits in Chihuahua and Vera Cruz.
On one occasion he was held prisoner
by anti.American rebels for more than
thirty-six hours with no prospect but
that of blankwall, hoodwink, "and
after that the dark. And in spite
of this experience he is optimistic
about Mexico and Sin love with its
people,.
Americans are guilty Of injustice to-
ward Mexicans,' he said in the course
Of his talk on Sunday evening. They
Judge them by the so-called Egreasers
they have seen working on the railroads
in the southwest or by the bandit
chiefs, whose exploits are exaggerated
in the newspapers. Neither of these
classes is representative of the Next
can people. The larger part of its
population is Industrious and peace
loving. In the poems the charaeteris-
tics Of the Aztec Indians still persist.
They are stolid, dependable, home
loving folk They do not like war. 1t
is only when they are excited by I'M
scrupulous demagogues Of the middle
class that they become bandits and
rebels, staging orgies Of rapine and
murder''
In further comment upon the coun-
try, it's resources, its people and its be-
setting sins, Mr.. Hauser continued in
the same vein:
Mexico s wealth has been the cause
of her downfall. 1t was her mines that
sent gold galleons across the Atlantic
ocean to enrich the treasures of kings
and build the Wanted Armada. 1t was
her mineral resources that made her at
r., tlactive to filibEIsterers from Europe
and brought her beneath the yoke OF
Spanish despotism. AS a result Of those
centuries of tyranny. eighty to eighty.
five per cent Of the Mexicans are illit.
crate while the rest Of the population
are naughty landowners living in lux.
lry on spacious haciendas and foment-
ng discord in the state to retain their
.llgotten holdings and maintain q
false aristocracy based upon wealth and
firth rather than intelligence and
worth.
There is another curse in Mexico,
the speaker went on. / refer to pulka
a bitter wine made from the Juice OF
the century plant. 1t is not intoxicat
ing. II is Supplying. For centuries il
has made the poems satisfied with q
serfdom in which their highest develop
ment was wholly impossible. Now thai
there is a chance TO rits elimination
American brewers are seeking to in
troduce wine and whiskey, a thing
which is very wrong and which shoult
be prohibited by the governments o.
both the United States and Mexico''
Mr.. Hauser spoke reveaIingly of thu
york done by Protestant Churches ii
Mexico. He explained the system re
Gently adopted by the Inter-C Church as
ISOLATION, whereby each denomination
has been assigned a definite district
Cor mission-work.
In the Methodist district alone, !
he said, we already have forty ordain
ed ministers, one hundred and thirty
local preachers, and eight thousant
two hundred church members and proba
tioners. We have established two boys
schools, four girls schools and thirty
day-schools for both boys and girls
With some of the money obtained from
the Centenary fund we hope to reviv,
the University of Mexico, an institution
founded by the Spaniards a hundre,
years before Harvard was dreamed O.
by the Puritans in New England. y
Further than this the speaker ex
planned that the centenary funds wouls
be used to deepen church life in Mex
leo and convert ten thousand Mexi
cans to practical Christianity.
In conclusion Mr.. Hauser gave
brief but Illuminating discussion Of tn,
present situation in Mexico. de. ex
FS~Ased the opinion that American in