Salt Lake Telegram | 1917-08-26 | Page 9 | Idling Soldiery is Mexican Problem

i IDLING SOLDIERY IS MEXICAN PROBLEM M I By International t N News Service NEW YORK Aug 23 How How to get gether gether gether her large army out of uniform and back Into productive employment after after after aft aft- er years of happy buccaneering is one of Mexico's most serious problems This was the statement here hero today of Henry Bruere financial expert and formerly chamberlain of this city who has been assisting Carranza's government govern govern- I j ment in arranging a plan for straightening straightening straight straight- ening out the almost hopeless financIal financial finan finan- cial tangle of his unruly republic Carranza has managed to survive a great many shocks said Mr Bruere and although he has outlived a long I period of precarious existence he has hasa I a tremendous problem in attempting to return a lot of bothersome soldiery II to more obscure and useful The part of the military which is under his control guards the railroads and lines of communication and with occasional lapses is now generally successful in preventing serious Interruption in interruption interruption In- In in traffic As you travel a buffer or exploratory train filled with soldiers and soldiers' soldiers women p precedes cedes you Stations are guarded when they are still worth guarding Stretches of I track through dangerous territory are am patrolled All this costs mone money this and an expensive 5 array of military of- of who prefer the military life and the government payroll to a drab civilian existence The military and the unsettled condition of ot the country are making the treasury officials wonder wonder wonder won won- der whore where the next days day's cash is 18 to come from For 1917 1918 military expenditure alone Is la estimated at pesos The total expenditure of the government govern govern- ment in 1913 1912 the 1912 the year ear of Madero's Maderos Maderos Madero's Maderos Madero's Ma- Ma deros dero's administration was was pesos Nobody knows where this money is to come from Oil oti and mining enterprises en and the Mexican people people long long suffering re remarkably remarkably re- re recuperative people that they are are are-are are producing a larger revenue revenue revenue reve reve- nue for the government than it has ever had before in the history of the republic Ambassador Fletcher has done re remarkable remarkable ro- ro i work in improving the re relations relations re- re lations of ot the two countries If It the thc i great mining oil and other foreign industrial interests find a basis of cooperation with the government as at asI 1 I believe they can if the leaders of Mexican public opinion and the tho military military mili mili- tary devote themselves to pa service and avoid avold the pitfalls of temptation temp temp- tation which a country accustomed to revolution prese presents ts if foreign nations maintain their good will and patience toward Mexico in Ia her present tics ties Mexico will come through These are very big Its ifs but they look very much smaller to mo me than the they did three months ago when 1 I wont vont down Into a country so much misrepresented and misunderstood misunderstood- ns as much sinned against as sinning sinning- as Mexico l