Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-29
In LATIN AMERICA
By CASTOR NERYAL.

I Of it sensible Bolivian citizens chose to
keep on doing without communiStic
rule. even II they had to pay their
debts
In 4s hours the communistic Presi-
dent was taking his precious self tc
safety in q speedy automobile headed
for Argentina. A profound believer In
"communistic" principles. he took the
| funds of the local bank with him.
Communistic propaganda has been
particularly felt during the last few
| years in those South American countries
where large part of the population is
of pure Indian blood and has not as yet
been converted to the standards and
/ culture Of modern civilization.
No better field could have been chosen
TO introduce communistic ideas In that
part of the world. The Latin American
countries are but in the beginnings OF
industrial development; therefore no
controversial issue has yet arisen be-
tween capital and labor They are
countries which instead Of harboring
great masses of unemployed have vast
extensions of territory, only awaiting
the hand Of man to make them fertile
and productive. Consequently the
working classes do not offer there the
splendid revolutionary material that
they do in some European nations.
On the other hand, that great mass
Of uneducated people formed by the
different native Indian groups is almost
made to order" for the diSseminat ton
of communistic principles. Red Propa-
gandists have discovered in the native
Indian an excellent material for the
carrying out of their disturbing plans,
and they are determined to use him In
that way.
Advantage Is being taken Of the
abandonment TO which the Indian has
been relegated to inculcate by means of
communistic teachings a false idea of
what Is termed humanitarian re-
demption' of the Indian peoples. Red
agitators have begun to preach re-
sistance and violence to the Indians,
telling them they are the legitimate
owners Of the land they till and in
citing them to take up arms against
their masters.
Although this campaign has not made
very rapid progress so far, the dangers
exist inasmuch as the participation of
these indigenous elements in the serv-
ice Of the communiStic cause receives
considerable help from their ignorance
and their peculiar conditions of life.
It Is difficult to convert rich people
the communism or any one who has
amassed fortune and properties through
hard work, but 1t is the simplest thing
in the world to make Communists of
panniless unemployed, of bankrupt
business men and Of native Indians
who have nothing at all to lose and
everything to gain.
ONE WAY OUT.
1t is with this realization in mind
that the governments of those coun-
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large part Of the population are looking
for methods to relieve and better the
conditions of the natives. They know
that the only way out is that Of in
cooperating the Indian into civilized
life. Thus the question of the ere
demption Of the Indian" is now the
subject of serious study by various of
the Southern countries.
This redemption" however must be
brought about slowly, methodically and
scientifically, in order 10 avoid violent
settings Of the problem are different,
the policy adopted in regard to it is the
same in Peru as in Bolivia, or Ecuador,
or Paraguay; that Is, to keep away from
the natives the subversive influence of
communistic doctrines, which incite
them to seize by violence the lands they
till, and to facilitate, In the meantime,
their incorporation into the national
life.
To accomplish this two things seem
necessary-to give them civilization
and to give them property rights. The
measures which were recently adopted
In this connection by the Peruvian
government give . clear impression of
the two distinct phases of this problem
the economic and the agrarian.
To solve the first q general system of
education was established throughout
the country, planned in such way as
to convey most easily to those native
groups the slmplest fundamental bases