Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-08-03
OBRECON OUT IN
SUPPORT OF The
GOVERNMENT IN
RELIGIOUS LAWS
Former President of Mexico
Throws Support to Presi-
dent Gales.
SEES NATIONAL PEACE
Charges Evident RebelliOus
Spirit Against Funda-
mental Laws.
SEES NATIONAL PEACE
(By Dispatch A. p. wire)

NOGALES Aug. 2-Former President
Alvero Obregon, considered poten-
tial presidential candidate in the 1928
Mexican elections, late, today threw
his support to President Gales in the
nations religious controversy by de"
claring that "the high dignitartes OF
the Catholic church provoked this
conflict" The statement was con-
tained in a signed declaration given
the Associated Press.
1t was General Obregon's first pub
lie statement regarding the central
governments policy since the religious
law was enacted and was issued after
he had refused earlier in the day to
commit himself.
1.-The conflict will disappear auto
matically when the directors of the
Catholic church in Mexico will sub
ordinate their vanity, at present
wounded, and declare that they are
ready to obey the laws and the au-
thorities who are there to see that
they are complied with, and when they
advise this line of conduct to all be-
LEVERS" the statement reads.
1t follows in full:
'It is evident that the high digni'
taries of the Catholic church provoked
this conflict when, through the mouth
of it's most exalted representative,
Senior Mora Del Rio, the first de-
clarations were made public, with an
evident rebellious spirit against the
fundamental laws in force.
These declarations, without any
previous incident that could have
wit la
international crisis provoked by the
big foreign interests which considered
themselves injured by the promulga>
tion of the petroleum and alien land
laws.
"All of us who know the proceedings
of the clergy through the different
international armed political conflicts
that Mexico has been obliged to sus-
tain since it's, independence, know that
it was not a mere coincidence, these
actions of the clergy.
Furthermore, we know that these
acts of the clergy were for the de-
liberate intention to accumulate a new
difficulty and to demonstrate to dis
contented foreigners that within our
own frontiers they had allies to COM
bat our own constitution, thus placing
at the service of the political inter
ests the faith of the believer
The federal government has been
obliged to dictate measures to inn
pose the respect that is due our laws
and it's own decorum. The interna
tional crisis was settled long ago, but
the pride of high clerical officials was
put to the test and they were obliged
to dictate series of measures which
virtually established conflict with
the federal government.
'It is natural that in complying with
the different orders which the govern
ment has been obliged to dictate as a
result of the conflict and in which au
thorities of different categories have
that there should have
been deplorable Incidents
"The conflict will disappear auto |
when the directors of the
Catholic church in Mexico will sub
their vanity, at present !
and declare that they are
ready to obey the laws and authorities |
who are there to see that they are
complied with and when they advise I
thihs line of conduct to all believers. !
(Signed "ALVERO OBREGON."