The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-16

nOpeleSS without assistance rom the
white man.
Analogy of Conditions.
able to work out in relation to Mexico
Is comparison TO a hypothetical con-
dition staged in our Southern States.
Suppose that some power informed
the lowest type OF negroes in our
Southern States that they had for gen.
erations been robbed and prosecuted
| by the white land owners and factory
| owners; that the land was of right
! theirs and 1t would be perfectly proper
| for them 10 drive out the white own
! ers; II they killed and raped into the
| bargain such developments would be
! unhappy but not without some 5ustiff-
cation, Then having driven from the
States all of the intelligent whites the
| lower type of negroes should be ex-
! pected to build country and a civili-
zation assisted and directed by half
breeds. who had more intelligence than
their pure African followers but whose
instincts were lower, aggravated by
an intense hatred of white men. Does
| any sane man believe civilization and
I
| To the average American who has
never been in Mexico l know this will
appear to be grossly overdrawn. but
the average American who has lived ir
Mexico, ! believe. will agree that 1t IL
| the most suitable analogy that can be
drawn. realize fully that the Will
INN Bayard Hales, the Lincoln Stef-
lenses and the other men. of that sstt
| who have mislnformed President Will
son and the American people generally
on Mexico will not agree with me. anc
l also know that they are about the
only type who will not agree.
| / am not in the least interested In
their opinions, and my only regret Is
that the President was ever hood
winked into appointing them as his
investigators. or course II he hao
, known as much Of Hale's German con-
! nections or OF Steffens's Bolshevik
tendencies as he unhappily now knows
he never would have sent them across
! tle border with White House creden'
tails.
The point about Mexico which
Americans generally persist In over
looking Is that its civilization and
ours are about as far apart as the
poles Ninety per cent. OF the people
are stepped in ignorance and five more
are stepped in corruption-thtsl leaves
a rather small percentage OF nauves
to combat the majority.
| The average Mexican has no more
conception OF the meaning OF democ-
racy than the average inhabitant OF
the Congo Free State. where I spent
eleven months. The only effect thai
the policy Of watchful waiting has had
on Mexico has been to destroy the
security OF the individual enjoyed
under Ell Fantasma and to deliver him
over to the bandit in the country and
the mercenary In the city.
Graft. Robbery. BlaekmaiI.
know 1t is extremely difficult fer
the average American, filled as he has
been during the last six or seven years
with all sorts and kinds OF nonsense
circulated for the purpose of justifyine
a policy that was as pathetic as II
was absurd to believe these things
| | know also that II this same Ameri-
can had been with me on my numerous
trips through the country and had seen
| so-Called Generals robbing and lootine
the farms of their own suffering people
and robbing the mines and other prop
erty developed by aliens whom they
had exiled his opinion and mine would
soon be the same.
II the gentlemen who from time TO
time have lent themselves to the sup