The Auckland Star: WITH WHICH ARE INCORPORATED The Eurning News. Morning News and The Echo. THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1929. THE MEXICAN REVOLUTION.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 56, 7 March 1929, Page 6

The Auckland Star: WITH WHICH ARE INCORPORATED The Eurning News. Morning News and The Echo.

THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1929. THE MEXICAN REVOLUTION.

For the cause that lack* assistance, For the wrong that needs resistance For the future in the distance, And the good that we can do.

Mexico lias been in a state of revolution ever since the day when the strong rule of Porfirio Diaz ended in 1911. # It was hoped that some stability would have been given by a common policy being agreed upon even if the rulers changed. Calles, Obregon, and the present provisional President, Senor Gil, carried out one policy, and when Senor Gil Avas elected he declared that his task would be to continue the policies developed by President Calles in all branches of public administration, and also to procure the fulfilment of the social programme outlined by the late General Obregon. This was a direct challenge to who had put Obregon out of the way, and the present revolution is largely the outcome of discontent among the opponents of a rule which has continued constant in policy in spite of a change of Presidents. Last December, after his Presidential term had ended, President Calles issued a manifesto in which he called on all elements in the republic to co-operate in the formation of a great national party. It was hoped that the formation of this new party would stabilise the various political elements in the republic, and thereby help lo save Mexico from "the anarchy towards which, otherwise, certain personal ambitions might lead it."

Personal ambitions among disappointed generals have had a good deal to do with the different revolutions in Mexico since 1911. But there have also been political, economic and religious difficulties. Last October a spirited attack was made on the Calles Government by two of the Agrarian leaders, who contended that General Calles had governed through the Labour Party, and that he was formulating plans to perpetuate one-man power in Mexico through a new party designed to preserve the principles of the Obregon-Calles regime of the past eight years. Senor Gil is a lawyer, and thus is outside the military element that has been so powerful in Mexican revolutions. It is said that virtually every General in Mexico considers himself a Presidential possibility, or expects to have a definite voice in the naming of a brother General. Senor Gil showed great ability as Governor of Tamaulipas, and he took up the important task of agrarian reform and education. He also endeavoured to put down official corruption. He thus has against him all those who look upon office as a means of personal advantage; the military element, which resents a civilian; the Agrarian Party, which is opposed to his democratic leanings; and that turbulent element in Mexico which always hopes to find in revolution some opportunity for loot and plunder.