Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-14

protect capital that has proper ap-
probation of its responsibilities.
President Gales conceded that
labor had made errors since 1t came
into power, but he excused that fact
on the ground of ineXperierce Of the
labor leaders. His administration IS
called a Labor Government" or a
Labor and Agrarian Government.
yet labor has but one Representative
in the cabinet, while the poems. who
were supposed to be the chief bene-
ficlarieS of the agrarlan ConnScau-n-
are scarcely recognized nor benefited
The land has been largely taken
over by the government but il Is
said to have fallen SSD the hands
of eXploiters who are political friends
of the officials, or into the grip Of
money lenders who, in helping the i'm
poverished peon to buy the indispens-
able farm implements. take lien on
the land in payment.
For four centuries, the Indians OF
Mexico have been enslaved and eX
plotted Under the laws both prior
to the resolution and since, a peasant
or peon who owed his employer was
bound to remain upon the estate, and
labor for the owner until the debt
was paid. AS the owner kept the &C
count, the llliterate peon never suc-
ceeded in discharging his debt. Be
coming accustomed to the system, the
peon never expected to balance &c
counts or otherwise acquire freedom.
AT least that is the version of some
observers of Mexican social condi-
tons.
Eighty per cent of the poems are
absolutely nliterate. They own no
tools, hence the bare land Is useless
to them until they borrow to equip
themselves with the implements, there
by incumbering the land as soon as
they get 1t. The usual pay Of farm
laborer is IL cents a day plus a small
measure of corn, which they crush
for tortillos, their daily bread
President Gales himself was born
a peon, but by sheer ability and force
fitness of character he has reached
the pinnacle of power in his country,
after serving as governor of the
State Of Sonora and general OF the
Obregon and Carranza armies. His
method Of enforcing authority is well
illustrated by his record in connection
with prohibition in Sonora He ex-
planned 1t to an interviewer by say
ing:
Il passed a prohibition law. Then
with dynamite / blew up or with fire
destroyed all breweries and distil-
| leries. When some men tried TO
smuggle liquor across the American
| boundary, 1 had them arrested and
next morning they were all shot.
| That ended the liquor traffic. You
would have less trouble with prohihi
| ton in America with a little more
| executive ffrmness."
President Gales has been called
! the Lenin of Mexico.
In 1916 he was In command Of
| 10000 troops upon the Arizona Dor
der, ready. when the word would come
from President Obregon that the Ger
| man plot was ripe, to march into
| Arizona for the retaking of the Ameri-
can "AIsace- ine''-Arizona, New
Mexico and Texas, perhaps also Cali
| fornia-which was all TO be returned
| to Mexico, as shown by the thinner
man letter captured and published in
/ the United States.
Under the Communist policies. such
| typically rich regions as the State
| of Morelos have lost prosperity and
population. In 1910 Morelos had
| population Of $4,000; today, 10000.
She was making $4,000 tons of white
sugar in 1910; today, none. Her rice
| crop now is one-tenth what it aver
aged before the revolution.
| Both the poems and induStrlaiistS
| are said to be FESTIVE and. like the
policy of the new dictator of Greece,
| President Gales is looking more to
| the strength of arms than to popular
support. With a total population of
| Is .000, 900, the last election polled only
$4,000 votes.
tcopynxhk 1895. by Paal v. Csuias.A