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Show IIK ILL PRINT REPORT OF JOHN Lli Publicity Is Said to Be for the Purpose of Showing the Motives of United States Government. By International Xev Service. BROWNSVILLE. Texas. July 19. Exhibit Ex-hibit "A"' in a crimson, white and srecn book on tho Moxiean question, winch the leaders of the FWkitas movement will shortly issi:e simultaneously in Mexico and the United States, is a hitherto unpublished unpub-lished report on Mexican affairs that Confidential Agent John Lind rendered Washington In November, 391". The Lind report will be Introduced in the crimson, white and preen (.these are the Mexican national colors) book tor the declared purpose of explain insr to the American and Mexican people the underlying under-lying purpose of the administration in backing first Villa, then Carranza and the revolutionists generally. The publication publica-tion of the Lind report will be depended upon to substantiate the Felieita charges thai President Wilson has been inspired tn his policy of watchful waiting primarily by a determination to punish the upper classes of Mexicans rather than by lofty motives of international morality. The report follows: j November 15. 1 ? 13. 10 a. m., to Bryan, Washington : Last nifrht I received from Mr. O'Shauphnessy a copv of his communication com-munication forwarding the last propo-sJ propo-sJ t i ons from H uer ta. FYom my prt-vare prt-vare advices, a-s I informed you yesterday, yes-terday, I had anticipated that some-thin? some-thin? of that character would occur. I confess,- however, tiiat I was surprised, sur-prised, for Mr. O'Phauphnessy was present and heard me say that no proposition of any character vtfouUd be entertained, nor would there be any further parley ins: until the United States was officially advised that the new congress was non est. Opinion of Mexicans. Tour message of yesterday restored my nerves to their usual condition of tranquillity. In view of the whole situation, I trust that you will pardon me for communicating my views somewhat more at length than is necessary for the present moment. As it appears to me. after consul -? erable reflection" the present situation offers the choice of alternative policies, as follows: (1) To take military possession of Mexico and administer the affairs of the country substantially as was done in Cuba until such time as it may appear ap-pear prudent to turn the government over to the Mexicans under proper treaty .guarantees for the future conduct con-duct of Mexican affairs, foreign and domestic. From purely economic considerations con-siderations ami the standpoint of simplicity sim-plicity this would seem the most convenient con-venient solution. It carries with It, however, the elimination of Mexican responsibility and discipline in doing this work, the necessity for which should not be lost sight of. if it la hoped that the Mexican people are ever to attain the dignity and responsibility re-sponsibility of a self-governing nation. Besides, so far as we are concerned, . it carries with it the dangers of graft and scandal during the reconstruction period, which are almost inevitable and for which our government would be held responsibie. Every Mexican who failed to get office would have grievances to ventilate In the American Ameri-can press, and I only do the class of Mexicans to which I now refer credit and honor, I believe, in their own estimation when I say that thev are the most voluble and plausible liars that I have ever come In contact with. Lind's Plan. To let the Mecans themselves undertake and cany on the work of reconstruction under such restraint and limitations as it may eee:n necessary nec-essary and practicable to impose. Tf this latter plan appeals to you as it does to me, therv I cannot express my conviction too strongly to you that I deem it an essentia! and necessary condition, to Justify any hope of success, suc-cess, that the City of Mexico he humiliated hu-miliated at least and for the following follow-ing reasons: Mexico Citv for centuries has been the center of such government govern-ment and public opinion as the country has had; and it has assumed to speak and act for the whole country; It has been the seat and the home of all intrigue and all the corruption from which the country ha,i surTrey. and it is within the concentration of its wealth, in its arrocance. in its rrorals. social and political, as degraded ai any capital city in the world. It reconizs no human virtue and re-sper re-sper :t6 no social relation ; the exer-ciM exer-ciM of power and the gratification of appetite are the rermanent factors that control its activities. For the purpose of a cursorv analysis, the population of Mexico ma;.' he viewed as composed of four prin "ipa I faCo-s : ' A ) The aristocratic wealth-.- lament la-ment ("which includes the church and The army in sympathy) is the source and nurse of all the corruption. This class has no home nor home life in (nir snse of the term: no countrv, Mexico is merely a. revenue producer. I:i trit- bull fight season it divides its time with the foreign capitals. Experts in Graft. (B The rifxt class in importance la the "li-'encjado" element the professional profes-sional rvi'Tf-rs to (lass A. T;iis 'lacs s T'"i'-s thft judges and oinr higher officii la fa f,.w a r-poin men ts art; made from the army). It sup- plies all the professional politicians and the personal of the two houses of eon.sress. Xo ianrjuajre applicable to slu ster lawyers in the United States can do full justice to the many-sided Iniquity of this class as a whole. They are the experts in graft, in corruption and in general vioiousness. If there is a wholly honorable man In this class I nave failed to learn of the fact after three months cf patient Inquiry. They are really move dangerous to the political life of the nation than class A. because they furnish class A with brains to a great extent. Resides, Re-sides, a too! is always more dangerous danger-ous than a principal. Class C, and comparatively unimportant, unim-portant, is compose! of the small business men and as such are usually referred to as the "middle class." This class would grow rapidlv under favorable conditions. D is the residuary class, composed largely of the pat ient. toiling Tnd ian masses, purposely kept ignorant and oppressed op-pressed by classes A an ! R and more or lss debauched by pulque and the vices imposed upon them by the others. Resist Progress. Under fair conditions for development develop-ment I firmly believe that there is great hone for almost unlimited progress prog-ress in this class. The vanity and conceit of the first two classes is mountain hish. They call it pr:de real pride thev have none. It Is probably the outgrowth of the four centuries of unconscious ' comparison with an inferior race. However produced, it is a stubborn fact that resists all genuine progress, even betterment. I repeat as a first condition to any progress this pride must he humbled. We can do it with two brigades at this time, but we cannot do it. in a moral sense, with a hundtel thm:sr-l. Any chastisement that we inisbi inflict in-flict would only cause resentment. It would be laid to our superior equin-ment equin-ment ; to their misfortune: to our wealth, and. as they would sy, to the fact that we were mean enough to take advantage of their national misfortune. We could defeat, but we could nei'her humble nor humiltat-them. humiltat-them. This can only be done bv their own people. their own blood the people of the north. They can do it to perfection if given a fair chance. To make a -log feel that he rc'Gv Is a cur tie must be whfnr.e! bv "another "an-other dog, and prefprahiv bv a cur. Consequently, lei this housc-clca ni r-g be done bv home talent. I; will be a little rough and v. e must see to it that the walls are left intacr, but I shoull not wnrrv If some of t1 verandas and French windows were demolished. General YiU. for instance, could do the job very sa t iffartoril v ay a good friend and unselfish one, onlv de'ring Mexico's zood. We stimiM no:ir enough to prevent an uitter nelehnor-hood nelehnor-hood scandal, and as a g"od neighbor we should also, when (he house is ready lor pM manent repair?, knd a belting hand and ce to it that ' wo-k is done f-Urlv that the re quired material is not wasted. These are my views in skeleton form. i Signed) M.T. |