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Show THE LAND QUESTION IN MEXICO As ono reads further Into tho Mexican Mex-ican problem the more startling uppixir the lights and shades of that unhappy people. On one hand you find class possessing education skid culture comparable to the finest polish pol-ish of America or Europe. Under-neath Under-neath tho thin upper crust compost.! first of cultivated and educated .roo-plc, .roo-plc, second of the feudal owners of tho land, are tho millions of peons, who are practically serfs. A bad economic ec-onomic system keeps Uiom alwayn la dobt and Ignorance. ' Tho sltuatlatn Is really about Sr-0 years behind the ago. Tho. feudal hierarchy of land ownership Is llko what existed In Europo a numbor of centuries ago, It Is no wonder that tho peon hopeless In, his life, of .ow wages or heavy taxes, frequently quits tho despairing task of agriculture, agricul-ture, which seems only to enrich the proprietor, under such circumstances circumstanc-es he feels ho has nothing to lose by brigandage, or by espousing tho cause of somo demagog, and ho might possibly pos-sibly gain something. Observers of tho problem Incllno to ono of two alternatives Does tho country need another Diaz, Borne strong man who shall restore '-rder, establish a benevolent despotism with tho and in view a gradual enlightenment enlighten-ment of the working classes, until somo future day when they can un-dortako un-dortako somo share In self government? govern-ment? Or Is the tlmo ripe now for al moro Domocratlc movement, In which the attempt shall bo mado to establish a real Republican government In this land ot darkness? Whichever attitude ono may take this one tiling seems clear,, that what over power Bhall rule at Mexico City It must take determined measures to encourage prlvato holding In land. Tho small farmer must bo protected. Thoro must bo courts that will de-fond de-fond his right to enjoy tho fruits of his land In peaco. |