Show WHAT WHA T DOES CARRANZA REPRESENT TO MANY MEXICANS CA CARRANZA RANZA STANDS FOR CHANGE CHANCE FROM BAD TO GOOD GOVERNMENT SAYS HERBERT QUICK Interpretations of actual conditions in Mexico will continue to tobe tobe tobe be of intense interest until order is restored on the Rio Grande To promote an understanding of the Mexican point of view Herbert Quick contributes a series aeries of three articles to THE TELEGRAM Today Today Today To To- day Quick deals with the relation of Carranza to Mexican politics EDITOR EDITO By HERBERT QUICK An has just been published in the press which purports to have been written l bu Huerta the dictator of ot Mexico Just before his death telling of ot Mexico's need for tor a dictator and picturing Carranza as the worst and most selfish of ot men It so happens that I have recently had a series of ot conversations conversations con- con with an American of ot ability a well known manot man manof t. t o of ot distinctly Democratic mind who has spent several months R 2 in a careful study of ot Mexico on the ground He lie Is a trained i observer He lie has no financial interests in Mexico He has hasY Y lived among the foreigners In Mexican cities talked with 11 4 them and heard their side of the Mexican situation q lie He has gone over the usual lines of ot Mexican travel rs has penetrated to the back districts in several states of ot Mexico has been with the Carranza armies has accompanied accompanied panted Carranza himself for tor weeks at a time has tried to become acquainted with the laboring and peon classes and has made a long CAREFUL EFFORT TO UNDERSTAND THE TIlE MEXICAN l SITUATION FRO FROM I THE TIlE POINT OF VIEW YIEW OF THE MEXICANS of ot all classes 1 I would as soon trust tru his Judgment as my own If It I had E r had his opportunities for I believe in his ability as an analyst analyst an- an of ot facts in It his lils Intellectual Integrity and In his sin sin- of ot purpose He lIt went after atter facts and he is the sort of ot man who gets facts when he goes after them I famine We hear a great deal of ot the poverty po and desolation of ot Mexico said I. I What are the facts about that 1 He lIe told me mo that there is undoubtedly much distress In the country but that it is found mainly In the cities in the merchant and shop keeping classes and among the former landowners and capitalists and their dents Out in the open country among the people who are actual producers the general standard of ot comfort is higher than it has been before for tor man many years earl The former peons now are at nt work on their lands and are living off oft their produce Where the country has been overrun b by the armies there is much distress even among these workers for tor the armies have had to eat In such regions there is starvation and disease and all the other horrible accompaniments of ot war BUT THE PEOPLE OPLE AS A WHOLE ARE ENTHUSIASTICALLY FOR FORTHE FORTHE FORTHE THE RI REVOLUTION BECAUSE IT HAS lIAS GIVEN N THEM THEl BACK THEIR THEm LANDS AND FREED FREED THEM FROM SLAVERY They would not for tor anything anything anything any- any thing go back to the Huerta or the Diaz conditions The revolution said my friend has given the masses of ot Mexico a vision of ot freedom and the right ht to land and free freo labor Make no mistake they can never be put back where they were They think that intervention intervention tion on the part of ot the United States would be for tor the tho of ot putting them back into the order and the peace of ot the tho Diaz re regime and the they would have to be exterminated before they would submit It is useless to say that they are wrong about the intentions of ot the United States State Nobody can convince them that they are wrong and if It we go in there to restore order they will think of ot the old order of at peonage and land thievery and they will come on and die under our guns in countless countless' hosts THEY WILL COMON COME COM ON AND ON UNTIL THE TIlE SLAUGHTER WILL WILT SICKEN THE TIlE SOUL OF 01 TIlE THE AMI AMERICAN RICAN PEOPLE This to the Mexican is what the revolution represents and to mo most most t of ot I them Carranza represents the revolution It is strikingly like lice the French revolution or the old revolts out of ot which grew crew free trAe Switzerland |