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Show I BEARS MEXICANS' PLEA TO PRESIDENT i ' L Senor Zeferino Dominguez, ! wealthy Mexican planter, as repre sentative of land owners, agricultur ists and other citizens of the twenty-seven twenty-seven states of Mexico, recently sub mitted to President Taft a plac which, he hopes, will bring peace, and insure, permanent freedom from unrest in his country. Regarding his plans, Senor Dominguez Dom-inguez said: "The plan I have in view is that the land owners of Mexico Join with the government in giving the pool people access to the land. At present pres-ent 7,000 families own all the land in Mexico. There are 12,000,000 per sons who own nothing and have na interest whatever in the land. "The way to pacify the poor people peo-ple is to give them an interest in something. As the situation stands, they can earn more in two hours' looting than in one year's work. "The plan I offer includes also the establishment and maintenance of a strong army for defense and for the sup- pression of outlawry. We suggest that the army be a form of militia and that the soldiers, when not engaged in military duties, be employed on farms set aside for the purpose. As an inducement to men to enter and rmain in the Bervice, each soldier would receive a small farm at the end of his term. "The situation which confronts ub in Mexico Is this: We have a government govern-ment which cannot control the rebels, and we have rebels who cannot defeat the government. "Intervention would be disastrous to all. The United States might send an army of 500,000 men into Mexico; it might hold the City of Mexico and all the principal ports, but it will not hold the country. There are too many mountains and too many tribes." |