Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-07-28

with an analysis of those elements
i wishing to paralyze the economic life
of Mexico with handbills be now given.
The federal governments attention,
totally absorbed in the prodigious work
of handling administrative problems
and the grave affairs affecting the de-
velopment of Mexico, and in fulfill
ment of it's internal and external OBJ
legations, had forgotten it's eternal en-
emy. l say it had forgotten the bad
Mexican and the foreign Catholic
clergy in Mexico and those politicians
and agitators who always have pros
pered in it's protection, when the chief
of the Catholic church on the occasion
of the last anniversary of the federal
constitution which is enforcing our
country reproduced, or permitted to be
produced in El Universal, an old doc
ument in which the head of the Mexi-
can clergy disacknowledged and repud-
lated the constitution.
The government of the republic un-
der my direction ignored the inoppor-
tune and stupid publication of this
document, which. born in the throes
of revolutionary agitation years ago,
could only have the effect of arous-
ing passions, but again some days
after the first insertion, Eel Universal
insisted on republishing the document
disacknowledging the constitution.
Even then, my government wished
to believe there was no new present
intention of attacking the fundamental
laws of my country and that the pub
lication of these documents was due
to immoderate zeal of some stupid edi-
tor of bad will toward the revolutions
airy government.
But for the third time there was
published, with autographed signature
of the archbishop, a new reputation Of
the Mexican constitution of 1917.
Impossible to Ignore.
Under these conditions. it was impos-
sible to continue ignoring the work of
Sedition, for such work is seditiOus,
which one of the newspapers of great
circulation in the republic was max
ing in observation-disclosures of the con-
stitution. It's announcement reiterat-
ing intent to combat the constitution
which in our country with it's historic
antecedents perfectly known was clear
ly open citation to armed rebellion.
Under these conditions I say to con-
tinue ignoring that attitude in order
not to distract our attention, until
then totally and absolutely occupied
in the reconstruction of our country
and with problems of administrative
order not only would it have been a
manifestation of weakness, but would
have afforded the fairest opportunity
e. 0f nY
Now then, what should or could the
government of any country in which
social group, whether religious or not
religious, publicly denounces it's con-
stitution, announces it's purpose to
combat it without stating that it in
tended to employ only legal means, by
campaign in parliament for the mod
ification of standing laws or seeking
triumph in civic acts of an electoral
nature, and which incites people to
observation-disclosures of their consti-
tuition, what could or should my gov
ernment have done in that case but
fix its attention upon those articles
that the constitution toward which the
profits of the clergy referred and
which by terms of their protest and
their own confession were being dis
obeyed and then demand strict fulfill
ment of the fundamental law?
Enforcing Laws.
Thus was born the famous religious
conflict in Mexico. We have had
neither necessity nor desire to make
new laws in this matter. We have
limited ourselves to requiring the full
fillment of those laws already exist