New-York tribune., 1920-05-30
General Agrees to Cuaran.
tee Peace and Give
Full Protection to All
Investors i'm Mexico
Capital Needed
To End Poverty
Work Called Remedy for
Suffering; Gradual Re-
striction ON Liquor
By Sophie 1readwell
Special Gable TO The vrib,,ye


Copyright. 1920. New York Tribune Inc
MEXICO CITY, Nav 29-GeneraI
Alvaro Obregon, representing the new
regime in Mexico, told me to-day that
the government stands ready to guar
antee peace and property rights to for
eigners.
Asked to outline in detail just what
the government means, the general
said:
"The first guarantee is peace. That
we now have and shall continue to have.
This has been a bloodless revolution for
peace. The various factions that have
brought disorder to Mexico in the last
ten years are now united under one
plan and"-he brought his lips togethe er
shall continue united.
Bandtry Is at an End
peace is the first and foremost
guarantee. The new government offers
to all foreign capital the assurance
that banditry is at an end in Mexico
and that all investments will get the
protection Of a government whose first
aim is peace and whose united strength
is sufficient to maintain it. No OBJ
stacles from prejudice or former mis-
understanding Will be put in the way of
the working Of any foreign capital in
Mexico"
General Obregon received me during
q long conference he was having with
General p. Elias Gales, the new Sec
retary OF War and Marine General
Cbregon, in this land Of generals, wears
plain American business clothes but,
from all the multitude of uniforms
that surround him, his drably dressed
personality easily stands out as the
strongest, the most intelligent and the
most attract We. He has a charming
smile, wise and yet kind: very know
ION of man who is enjoying life, and
q powerful body.
The interview was held in the small
empty room n which he holds his con-
ferences, standing all day.
The thing which this country needs
after peace General Obregon con-
tinued, "is the business and confidence
of other nations. We realize this. 1t
is to the stimulus of foreign invest
swlftest and most practical alienation
OF the misery that the very poor in
Mexico now suffer, a misery that is
the direct consequence of the recent
years of lawlessness and worklessness
superimposed on q long past of exploi-
tatlon and oppression.
Poverty Presents Problem
"The condition of the very poor
of my country is q problem dating
from centuries back that cannot be
made right in q day I look to work
as the first step and then to education
1T is the same with the question of
drink. | do not believe in complete
and sudden prohibition in Mexico. |
of the drink evil Prohibition can be
brought about in Mexico only little by
little. | personally do not believe in
tota! prohibition for any people.
you ask me if have any definite
program for the adjustment of the
differences Of opinion between Amer!-
can capital and Mexican petroleum in
terests. | have, but ! cannot 20 into
that now.
"Do I believe that the women of
Mexico should take part in our bust
ness and politics on an equal basis
with men? l cannot be quoted on
the feminist movement as YOU call
1T, because | do not understand its
basis"
| suggested to the general that it's
basis was woman. "And you must
know women, general" l added.
Women all Enigma to Obregon
Very little" he replied with a very
enlgmatic and very indulgent smile.
l asked General Obregon what he
thought fate had in store for Ignacio
Bonillas, the former Ambassador to
Washington whom Carranza would have
made President of Mexico.
Owe are going to apply Article 33 of
the constitution to him." General
obregon replied. eve are going to
send him out Of the country. He is an
undesirable citizen"
Poor Bonillas! Such little time ago
he was the man of power; to-day he
lies in the melancholy prison at San
tiago, absolutely alone and deserted.
None Of his former friends is willing
to go near him. All the Carranzistas
hate him rabidly.
If there is such a thing now in all
Mexico as Carranzista, that man likes
to consider Bonillas the cause Of the
fall of the Carranzista cause "The
Tea Flower" "a name given to Bonillas)
has become the goat.