The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-22
FINDS ,MEXICANS ANXIOUS
FOR PEACEFUL RELA TONS
American Who Has Large Interests There Urges Better
Understanding and Sees Promise of Laws More
Favorable to Foreigners.

swarmed into the plaza. A Mexican
foreman of the mine addressed them. He
recalled what the coming of the Ameri-
cans meant to them; with what kind
ness they had been created; shorter
hours of labor and better conditions OF
living; medicines when they are sick
always friendliness and help. As re-
suit the people as a whole begged the
Americans to remain. promising every
protection. So distorted were the ru-
mors, however, that the Americans de-
cided to leave. A group of the natives
then volunteered to escort them to the
coast And afoot this little band of pro-
tectors accompanied their benefactors
over the rough mountain trails to the
port OF Mazatlan. Many similar Incl
dents marked the departure of other
Americans from other parts of Mexico.
Gen. Plutarco Elias Gales, the for
mer Governor, is a man of strong char
acter, and to him must be given the
credit for the unique position which
Sonora occupies among the Mexican
States This State, covering an area as
large as all the New England States,
with an international boundary line bor-
dering Arizona and New Mexico of
nearly 400 miles. a third of the entire
Mexican boundary, has been and now Is
signally free from raids and banditry.
What Gales is and what he has done
for Sonora has made his presence neces-
sary in the Federal Government, whers
IL is announced he is to occupy the i'm
portant Cabinet position of Minister of
Labor. Commerce and lnSustry. He
leaves the reign of office in Sonora to
Senior Don Adolfe de la Huerta, who was
inaEgurated Governor September 1 for
a period of four years.
Gov. de la Huerta Is very interest
ing man. He is young has made him
self 10 a man OF high ideals; of rugged
personal honesty: intensely patriotic /;
thinking first and always OF the poems
to whom he desires to bring opportuni-
ties for advancement He knows the
immense and varied virgin resources
Of his State and he is determined to
make these resources of value to all
the people. He appreciates the fact that
American capital and American energy
are necessary to accomplish these de-
-sires and is shaping his administration
accordingly. Senior de la Huerta als1
represents Sonora in the Federal Senate
at Mexico CITY, where he said to me
recently, you may depend upon Sonora
to furnish full guarantees for the pro
lection of life and property to all the
PEOPLE of the State regardless of ma
tionality.'
why Condemn Mexicos
1--WE read tales OF the work of scat
tered bandits operating in some isolated
section and because It is in Mexico we
accept them as indications of the geI.-
eral conditions of the whole Of this
great republic. Mexico in all her his
tory has never given such an exhibition
or lawlessness as we have just witnessed
In one of our highly developed and
thoroughly governed cities. when, for
one short hour the strong hand of
its long established Government was
relaxed.
why then should we condemn Mex
leo?
Il have been a heavy sufferer, finan-
cially. from the Mexican revolutions.
But my home, my interests, my best
friends are in Mexico and my heart
Is with these people in their present
struggle to get upon their feet / have
suggested the consideration t,at I fel,
were due to Mexico by the American
people, but also there are considera-
lions to he shown by the Mexican Gov
eminent to other nations and their ciu-
zens.
TThe Carranza government should es-
tablish greater confidence among the
<1ihci iS1hS' IL SnOuln demonstrate be-
yond the shadow of n doubt its in
tention and desire to treat Americans
with that same legal consideration they
are accorded by every other nation in
the world, the same consideration that
the Mexican himself receives from the
American. Neither the people nor the
Government Of the United States will
stand for confiscatory clauses. The
property of Americans in Mexico and the
rights freely to promote these proper-
ties must be safeguarded. Il is tn.
fear that the Carranza Government will
not do this thing that has raised all
this Intervention talk. Carranza we'll
knows what Mexico owes to the Ameri-
cans for bringing to the surface tnt
rivers bt oil that are now her chief
source of revenue.
when are the Americans going back
to Mexico? When ignorance and false
hood give place to knowledge and truth
Arms may open the way but let us use
our brains and hearts first
"On this side of the border I have
found no unfriendly thought toward
the Mexican people. The thought 1 dc
find expressed here. however, and ex-
| pressed with no doubtful meaning al
Washington and everywhere else, Is
that the Government of Mexico should
| now measure up to its international OBJ
| legations and especially to her friends
and neighbors-the people of the United
| States"