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Show IN MEXICAN POLITICS. When Madero began his campaign against President Diaz ho mado his followers fol-lowers great promises of distribution of lands, of governmental aid in employment, employ-ment, and of general reforms, both in administrative procedure and in the common life of the people. When he got to the City of Mexico and became President, he 'found that his promises were impossible of immediate fulfillment. fulfill-ment. And yet. there is such a pressure among Mexican poople for agrarian policies, pol-icies, such as Madoro claimed to represent, repre-sent, that tho idea of pushing them will not down, Tho National reform party of Mexico, which is supporting Felix Diaz for President, promises a solution at the earliest possible moment of the agrarian problem, coiiimuisaliou to workmen for damages sustained through accidents in industry, protection protec-tion of laborers against usurers, aud old ago ponsiono. The carrying out of theso policies would certainly causo an awakoning in Moxico, and it is curious to seo that tho supportors of Diaz stand for these propositions, prop-ositions, Whothor Diaz would, in fact, undertako to carry out theso propositions proposi-tions in case of hia olection to tho Presidency Pres-idency may bo a matter of doubt; but it is certain that if ho were elected on that platform, and did not carry out these policies, thorn would bo another revolution as soon as it was mado certain cer-tain that ho refused to carry out the pledges upon which he was cloctod. It is interesting to noto that these policies, which represent in a largo degree de-gree tho policies cJf Madero, are now offered as tho platform of the man who is held to represent tho reactionary and anti-popular sentiment in Mexico, a ncphow of the grand old man whom Madero ousted from offico, to his own final discomfiture and assassination. |