The log cabin Democrat., 1920-09-04
MEX|CANS AT LAST TIRED OF FIGHTING WANT TO SETTLE DOWN Sick of Revolutions, Northern Mexi- cans Pray for Chance to Earn
 Living in Peace.
By Ralph H. Turner


 | United Press Staff Correspondent
 San Pedro, Coahuila, Mexico, Aug. P. (By Mail. l.)-"All we want is peace and a chance to go to work. We're sick of revolution"
 That is the sentiment expressed in every quarter in the section of north ern Mexico known as the Laguna dis trict, in which the towns of Torreon, San Pedro and Gomez form the prin- cipal centers of activity. Judging from the feeling in this part of Mex leo, the surest guarantee of future peace in this troubled country is the feet that the people are exhausted from fighting.
 It is interesting to note that this weariness of strife is voiced in a part of Mexico that was the storm center of the revolutionary movement in it's early days. The state of Coahuila was the home of Francisco Madero, Mexico's first revolutionary president who launched the rebellion that over threw Porfirio Diaz. In the town of San Pedro the brothers of Madero make their homes today, having re- turned recently to their native country after period of exile in the United States. Venustiano Carranza also was a citizen of Coahuila, and began his revolutionary career in this state. Cuatro Cienegas, north of here, was Carranza's birthplace. Some of the bitterest battles of the revolution were waged for possession of Torreon and San Pedro.
 But today the country which was the home of revolution is crying for peace.
 Mexican revolutions of the past ten years almost invariably have hadI origin in the north. Madero, Villa, l Carranza and Obregon all come from the north. This northern spirit of revolution frequently has been ar | cribed to proximity to the United States border, resulting in ideas more liberal and aggressive than those ob- taining in the southern part of Mexi- co. Whatever the reason, there may be significance in the makeup of this little town of San Pedro. Everywhere one encounters persons who speak English, people who have been in the United States. The Maderos are all graduates of American universities. There is the young engineer, too, who tells you in the same conversation of his irrigation project and his under graduate days at Cornell. And there ! is the young cotton planter, the gradu- ate of an American military academy, who rides to his plantation every morning on an American motorcycle. Even the hotel waiter tells you of his experience in the States" and when he brings you your change, half of the coins are American, which is in general circulation in this part of the republic
 But all of these people, who rebelled ten years ago at what they term the dictatorship of President Diaz, today are yearning for peace and chance to develop their country's natural wealth. This sentiment is even found among army men stationed in this district. When the De Ia Huerta government proposed to reduce the size of Mexi- co.'s top-heavy army-and began to execute it's policy-everyone was ap- prehensive.
 Ut can't be done. The military leaders, deprived of their soft berths, will rise in rebellion"
 But generals can't maintain armies without soldiers.
 Were tired of this army business" said colonel who had risen through the revolution from the rank of sergeant. Ut was all right in the