Show MEXICO Mexico has inhabitants but only ab abut about ut voters In the light of that does not President Wilsons Wilson's insistence upon a free and fair election seem like pretty much of a joke Old Man Diaz observed the form of election prescribed prescribe by the laws but that was was all aIL He kne knew that a strong hand was needed to hold Mexico in peace and to permit p mit her he people to be educated up to a place where they might govern themselves t that unless that was vas done they would continue to be the playthings of one petty revolutionist after another and he set his foot down do upon that and for thirty ye years rs continued a benevolent despotism over them He knew what was needed and enforced it He knew the character of his people and what his country needed and continued his rule It is a vast pity that he had not been t thirty years younger when he began bega his his' w work rk I |