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Show W Poor Mexico OF course the Washington authorities know . more of the present state of affairs in Mexico M than the people do; it is possible that the de- , cision to recognize Carranza as president of fl Mexico comes of a (belief that thereby peace will H be secured to that unhappy country, but wo can ' see no hope for Mexico's future in the selection, H for as we see it, could Carranza accomplish all H ho proposes to, it would simply relegate Mexico fl back to what it was fifty years ago, when the old B Indian Juarez arose to free his country from a B rule that had steeped the people in Ignorance H and superstition until they had lost every trace B of initiative and accepted their nakedness with- H out shame. H When, last year, Villa was fighting Carranza's H battles, Carranza more than once gave expression H to ideas that showed he would no more nesitate H to 'bo a murderer than Huerta aid; in a recent H Interview he outlined what he proposed to do if H successful, which, strictly construed, would not H be much different from the reign of the infamous H Weyler in Cuba; we do not believe that he hopes Hj for any progress under his management, but does H hope that he may steal enough from his impov- H erished countrymen to make himself comfortable H when finally driven away. H ,. It requires ages for a land to free itself from H the grasp of a glacial period. Mexico is under H a glacial period of ignorance and superstition H which apparently has not yet begun to pass B away. |