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Show Carranza And Mexico THE New York Times prints a two-page interview inter-view with Carranza. The important features are that Diaz permitted his friends to absorbmost of the values of Mexico; that foreigners under special privileges received too great a reward; that when he and his friends obtain control all the opportunities of Mexico will equal to all; that a special fund will be established to reimburse foreigners for all their legitimate losses in the war; that foreigners will be protected and encouraged en-couraged to invest their money, but that they, w the same as wealthy Mexicans, will only be per-'si per-'si mitted to obtain a fair return on investments. From that statement it is clear that with peace established and order maintained, Mexico will be a first-class country for foreigners to keep' away from. The wild Irishman said: "All the money in the world should be divided equally among all the people of the world." "What good would that do?" asked a friend. "You would not have a cent in a week." "O, bedad, w'd have another division," was the reply. That all men should have equal opportunities i. is true; but in a land like Mexico that is Impos-"' Impos-"' sible. Fourteen out of fifteen men in Mexico are quassi serfs, improvident peones, and with the great host of them there is but here and there one whose ambition is not satisfied for the time being with a pint of corn meal, a thimble full of salt, a watermelon or a few bananas and a bottle bot-tle of aguadenta. What are opportunities to such creatures? Dias understood them and the impossibility of their advancement and so besought foreigners to come and help make Mexico a country. From the very nature of things a comparatively compara-tively few men must manage the property of Mexico and direct the needed work to insure any progress. It would be an injustice to Carranza to think that he does not understand this perfectly, and it would be a safe guess to assume that he, if he can obtain the place he covets, will from the first month be sending such funds as he can secure to some foreign bank, so that when the next revolution revolu-tion comes he may do as Diaz and so many others of his countrymen have done, have a comfortable next-egg for his old age. Poor Mexico! Long yet will be the way that her people must struggle out of the dark up into light. |