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Show "The People Have Been Promised Heaven, but Have Got the Other Region" By CARLOS B. ZETINA, Mexico's Richest Man. j We are badly off because we have not yet learned to know ourselves. I We are living in a dream. We are trying to build a Utopia, a castle in the air, as it were, when, as a matter of fact, we are still to emerge from : a very primitive condition. Our government is in the hands of dreamers, men who will not see that the masses are unprepared for novel schemes.- There was never a time, as far back as I can remember, when there was greater confusion in this country. We have had not one revolution, but a series of revolutions, and, to be frank with you, we were better off before we started. The people have gained nothing. They have been promised heaven by all the generals of the revolution, but it seems that they have received the other regions instead. The present government is committed to a program of reform which is not only impossible but suicidal. We all know that the so-called agrarian reform is a chimera, that our labor laws are exaggerated, and that the masses need education above all, but there is not a single man in power who has the courage to face the truth. We are enacting a monstrous farce for the entertainment of the world which has in it all the elemonts of a tragedy. I am not discouraged, nor have I lost 'faith in the common sense of my people. We are going to pass out of all this very soon. |