The daily morning oasis., 1920-05-30

continued. in Mexico until appearance
upon the scene of General Porfirio
Diaz, whose achievements were due
in part to his merits. and his astuteness
in the role of a in-American die
tator of the last century, but could
not have been obtained without two
concurring factors.
The first was complete defeat of
the old and wealthy Conservative par
ty, which could not sustain its organ
lzatlon among men of property, and
its elements were dispersed upon con-
tact and encounter with the search
ing character of General Diaz, a man
of the highest type of Latin American
leadership, astute, resourceful and
anscrupulous, with a stiff backbone
and a remarkable capacity for grasp
ing and conserving power. Allied
with that man there appeared all
original liberal elements, with rein
forcement of those other liberals en-
Iiched by their own efforts in arms
and in the intrigues of former davs
ranged against their old party, a lit
tie evolution with religious and poll
tical notions plenty, but without
social conscience.
The second factor was current econ-
omios in Europe, and principally in
this country, by reason of the force
of which there was opene! a way fer
development Of the re 'ources of the
land and advancement of progress.
TO these two factors there was due
more than little the great effec-
tivences If the administration of Cen
eral Diaz I will not recount the
success and triumphs which were pr
duced by action of natural social forces
in development. 1t is curious, how
eveh, and laughable, to note how the
little tyrants of Latin-America tell
how during their administrations their
countries have constructed say one
thousand miles of railway, when but
for their ignorance and lack of know
ledge of the science of government
they should have constructed ten
thousand miles.
The proof most evident Of the lack
Of real greatness is in the same sue
cesses his fossilized admires assert
were productions of a great man.
Their great man was in power when
Mexico was in plastic state and could
have been put upon Il greater and
grarder scale Of development through
gigantic forces at his command, but
for the barriers and obstacles that
routine and conservatism originated
and planted upon the road of progress.
The system created Diaz\ \was like
q formidable wall of concrete attempt
ing to close the road of society. the
march Of progress, which irresistible
force no human obstacle could with
stand forever; and the wall to which
/ have hkened the Diaz system was
torn asunder ard pulverized by those
Irresistible forces which beat against
it. Before the very ewes of those
myopic supporters who could not see
IN the catastrophe they courted the
victorious march of an era Of progress
militant, bearing aloft flaming ban
ners -
"Then why" they ask. "this new re-
volutionary movement ?"
1t is not new.
1t is the same movement as that of
the same social dynamics, seeking
1910; it has the same impulsive force
natural goal. Society has not at
tanned its needs, and the effort will not
cease until its wants are satisfied. A
change in system was needed, not
merely a change of men in power.
Society wants free open road to de-
velopment of it's powers. and the Car
rama administration was an unhappy
imitation of the wall of Porfirio Dia2
One of the hardships the country
has endured has been when men to
whom have been confided DEVELOPMENT
of aspirations of progressive forces,
in treason to their party. in treachery
to national hopes, using forces Revol-
uton put into hands, not for estab-
fishing reforms not for enlargine
the natural forces of the country, but
to perpeth'ate high crimes and mis-
demeanors. 1t is the truth that no
words are sufficient to describe such
infamy. when such men have propos-
ed coldlv and deliberately to involve
anew their country in bloody intrigue,
intrigues such as our enemies use as
base for their affirmation before
oil the world that we have not the cap
acity for self government, and that