The Washington times., 1920-06-06

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nothing but the eternal victim OF
your political lies.
ssThen We come TO the majority OF
the Mexican population. the detrltus,
the erosion, arising from the meetihs
and amalgamstion OF two races 10u
have from seven 20 eight million
mestizos, half-breeds. whlte-"asheo
Indians or bronEed white men. There
may be a few decent INDIVIDUALS
among them. as there are In any mass
OF people. But the majority OF them
are Ioafers. fond OF noise and big
talk, soap-box artists with a gift Tor
the theatrical pose. idiers and buns
| who never did a stroke OF hard Work
| in their lives and hate any KIND OF
| success that is not attained over
| night. They are the raw msterlal
| of your revolutionaries. They take
TO politics like ducks to water but
to a politics OF persons and not OF
ideas.
"There are not nfteen millions OF
you. There are two millions al inc
| outside. Make II nve, II that suits
you better. You might be able 10
scrspe together three millions OF serN-
| iceable mestizos. who are good. at
least. for something, though not Tor
| much. In the future, when you get
| TO be governed by men--men In the
best sense OF the word-snd not by
generals. when Mexico gets TO be
truly civilized nation capable or Iv-
ing in peace with itself. then you
| may really become the second nation
OF the Americas. You will have not
only rfteen million people, but many
more: for your potential wealth ~
| enormous, and foreigners VIII flock
here tho moment danger IL past. As
| II IL, poor Mexico must remain a thlrd-
| rate nation among the other Spanish
American republics. and that thanks
to the counterfeit revolutionaries''
| Get on the Track.
whenever the Mexican notables
started TO talk about the South
America they were anxious to attach
to their interests. they went com
pIetely of the track.
Cabrera. Don Venustiano's minister
OF finance, was the only one at all
acquainted with those countries. He
had been in Chile and Argentina for
some months during the European
| war trying to organize a Congress
| Of Neutral Nations which, in reality,
was to support Germany.
What did he learn on that visit?
l must advise my readers that
lived six years down there myself, and
l think ] know those places little
bit better than Cabrera.
He saw all the bad points about
Buenos Aires and Santiago, but he
lhad no eyes at all when II came TO
Ianything really great. There was
look of pity on his face as he talked
about Argentina and Chile. What
were they compared with the grand
eur of revolutionary Mexico? As !
listened to his chatter I had to ad-
mire the mans power of imagination.
his ability to squeeze reality into his
own narrow vision and to fnd only
things that fattcred his vanity.
Don Ncnustiano. crafty and re-
doubtable as he was in political in
triGuc. proved to be the easiest of
easy marks when il came to some
purely intellectual question.
He had to hnd name for the
league of Spanish-American nations
he had in mind. Well, he might
have called il the Hispanic-AmericAn
Federation. or the Ibero-Americsn Al
lance. or the American League.
But that all seemed 80 insipid and
hackneyed to him. so blase.
T. suppose he must have turned to
the Madame de Stsel OF his revolu-
tion, the ex-stenographer or telegraph
girl. who had invented the "Carranza
Doctrinc." In any event. somebody
or other produced this masterpiece:
"Thc India American Federation"
Dear old Don Nenustiano He must
have been thinking OF the South
American statesmen as so many
dressed mulattoes or half-breed In
dians. with faces as swarthy as those
OF the ministers and generals he had
gathered around himself.
| Polished And ReAned.
| When / hear that "Indio-American"
idea, l could hardly help laughing in
his face. / could imagine what the
Argentine, Chilean and Uruguayan
leaders would look like when they
received that proposition. The fore
most men in Argentina come from old
colonial families. They are polished
and refined in manners. They went