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SHOULD WE
LET MEXICO
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Alone To Solve Her Problems
One of Which Is To Deal
With 8,000,000 Indians.
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United Press Service.
Vera Cruz, May 8.—Let Mexi
co alone. That is the thought
that impresses itself upon every
American—that is, every Ameri
can who doesn’t own a mine or
a concession—who knows any
thing about the situation here.
Here’s a simile that shows the
feeling: A lot of old folks,
father, mother and grandpar
ents, are watching a baby try to
walk. The baby falls and bumps
its head; again it tumbles and
almost every stroll the baby
takes winds up in some disaster.
But what nonsense it would be
if the parents and grandparents
finally decided that the baby
must not be permitted to walk.
It would be the height of folly,
as well as of cruelty to the child
to say:
“Every time baby tries to learn
to walk it hurts itself. There
fore, we’ll push him around in
his carriage and we won’t per
mit him to try to walk.” It
would be less cruel to kill the
baby outright than to treat it
in this fashion.
i Mexico is a baby among na
| tions- American intervention
i vvoul dbe strapping Mexico into
a go-cart. # TTF ■
Mexico has a tremendous dis
tance to go to reach manhood a
among ntions. The distance is
SO great—centuries long—that
it makes you tired to consider
it- But it’s a journey that many
of the greatest nations of the
earth have not yet completed, af
ter centuries of struggle. All
the problems that these elder na
tions have solved and are solv
ing for themselves, Mexico must
solve for herself.
If we narrow the comparisons
down to measuring Mexico with
the United States we discover
that Mexico has not yet even
started to solve her Indian prob
lem. Her wild west days, her
Custer’s last fight and charge,
her massacres, her Indian res
ervations, all are before her,
and haven’t even been touched.
There are vast territories in
Mexico where a Mexican doesn’t
dare to venture, for fear of the
Indians.
Of Mexico’s population of 16,
000,000, almost 8,000,000 are In
dians. When we look back in the
United States at our Indian days
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and consider that Mexico can’:
even begin to take up the Indiar
problem until it has solved th<
problem of how to take care ol
its own government in the semi
civilized capital of Mexico City
we begin to see something of the
problem Mexico faces. In tht
northwest of Mexico, just as
| the northwest of the United
j States in the old days, the stur
;diest of the Indians reside, the
' Yaquis. In their own way they
(are a noble race- Here's a pic
I ture of one thing that happened
j among them.
After Madero’s victory Gener
al B. F. Viljeon, the former Boer
general, who aided Madero was
sent to persuade the Yaquis to
peace. He went to them in the
mountains, with the wise gov
ernor of the state, and an inter
preter. They received him in the
camp fire circle and passed a
round the pipe of peace, just as
the Sioux Indians used to do.
Viljeon made a long speech, say
ing that Madero loved the In
dians. Then the governor of
the state made a speech. Then
the two civilized men seated
themselves on the ground and
awaited an answer. For two
long hours, not a word was spok
en. The grizzled, old Yaquis
chief sat silent as a Sphinx. The
Indians sat like stone images.
The civilized men fidgeted a
round and finally Viljeon got up
and made another speech, an
hour long- Then the governor
of the state spoke again, with
more kindness than before. The
two men waited another two
hours of silence. The chief did
not speak; the Indians , only
pulled at their pipes. Viljeon
and the governor tried one more
speech each. Fourteen hours
had passed; the morning sun
was high in the sky; the two
civilized men, not as stoical as
| the Indians, were never wrench
jed. And finally the old chief
spoke these words: “What a
bout our stolen lands? You
' haven’t said a word of them. Go,
1 and comie back only when you
! can give us back our lands.”
The two civilized men were
glad enough to get away with
their lives.
Tht Indian problem is only one
of the thousands of problems
that await solution by Baby
Mexico—when it grows up. An
other problem is how to get the
middle-class of people a backbone
i for the government. A Mexican
'youth who has gone to college
immediately insists on a place
in the government. He won’t
be a tradesman or a merchant;
wThite collars and cuffs, all the
rest of his life, for him, with
lots of homage and little work.
The only place he can find these
things is in the government em
ploy. To every “educated” Mex
ican, the government appears to
be only an institution in which
| he can find a berth. That’s how j
I revolutions start.
In the United tSates there are
millions and millions of homes
of happy and contented folks,
the backbone of the nation, who
never worry about the govern
ment unless they see it going
itoo far wrong; they settle that
| in about a dozen hours on the
next election day and then go
back to their duties, of raising
good children and maintaining
contented homes. Mexico still
has to find a place in her social
scale for such a class as this. In
Mexico you are either an “aris
tocrat” or you’re an ignorant
; Indian. Let Mexico alone is good
advice. It’s not only a baby na
tion learning to walk but it also
strangely resembles a bomb load
ed with a lot of problems that
Uncle Sam doesn’t want to
touch.
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, Commencement Addresses Now
On. *
; Special to Independent.
Little Rock, May 8.—Com
mencement addresses is now al
most a profession, and there are
v
men of prominence in Arkansas
who will do practically nothing
else for the next thirty days.
Among these are, President Jno.
H. Futrall of the University of
Arkansas; President John H.
Reynolds, of Hendrix College;
George B. Cook, State Superin
tendent of Public Instruction;
and Dr. C. H. Brough, of the U
niversity of Arkansas. Dr
'Brough is now on his round,
with 40 commencement address
es to deliver. This will require
his absence from the University
for some time during which Lit
tle Rock will be his headquart
ers, as it is more centrally lo
cated. Dr. Brough is a candi
date for governor at the next
primaries, and he is putting in
good time in the meantime,
shaking hands and getting ac
quainted. Dr. Brough started
his tour of commencement exer
cises, at Gillett last week.
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Mr. and Mrs. Pugh Grovan, of
Marianna, arrived in the city /
Monday. They were en route
home from Newport, and stop
ped off here to visit with rela
tives and friends. Mr. Govan
left the same day for his home,
and Mrs. Govan remained for
several days a guest in the dove-% f
ly home of Captain and Mrs. T. ' V
C. Merwin.—Forrest City Times. JJ
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done a good job on the Harry
Boas stores, on the comer of
Texas and Memphis streets. —
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