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Show OO WHEN TORREON FALLS, THEN ! MEXICO CITY. . After Torreon, the City of Mexico I will become the objective of General ! Francisco Villa. WUh the rebels gaining in prestige through their re-t re-t peated victories and recruiting In tho districts they invado, the march toward to-ward tho capital of the republic must liavc a demoralizing effect. Then will come the real tcBt of the established es-tablished government and of Huerta 1 i himself. While tho fighting has bcou .far-removed from the City of Mexico, Huerta was free to boast of his country's tranquility nnd convey foreign newspaper men over thp central cen-tral valley of Mexico with a show of Indifference as to what the Constitutionalists Constitu-tionalists of the north were doing, but from now on wo shall gain a better idea of tho government's de-j. de-j. grcc of preparedness to meet the l conquering Villa, and we also shall 1i receive a closer vlow of the mau tj Huerta,' his courage or lack of coup ago anil hiB real strength. Wc pre. x. diet that when the actual test comes, Huerta will be seen as an arrant cow ard, fleeing before the oncoming rebels. reb-els. We measure the man by his brutal, Inhuman treatment of Madero, when he treacherously turned upon his generous superior and, gaining a mastery, put his prisoner to death by resorting to the base subterfuge of as3asRlnatIon. When Villa marches triumphantly Into the City of Mox.co, we shall know more of that bandit chieftain. The general's true chnractcr then will bo disclosed. Wc doubt that he is the villain he has boon pictured, lie must have redeeming qualities to Inspire any largo following and It may develop ho Is a leader of generous gen-erous Impulses, broad Ideas and well-defjnod well-defjnod policies of government calculated cal-culated to restore .peace to Mexico and reestablish confidence. One thing he wll not make Madero's mis-tako mis-tako of relaxing In firmness. He will crush the Hucrtas and accopt with suspicion the overtures of any of tho men of the Porflrlo Diaz regime. Had Madoro, In the hour of victory, rejected re-jected the professions of loyalty of the honoflclnrlcH of the old Diaz government gov-ernment and proceeded to bo somewhat some-what of a Cromwell, while dispensing dispens-ing oxact Justice to the mass of the people, ho would havo escaped the lntrlguo that laid him low. Villa can be depended on to apply tho Iron-hand Iron-hand with' sufficient vigor to fill all designing rascals of JIucrta's type with wholeBomo fear. |