FEUDALISM MUST GO.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1087, 28 March 1911, Page 5

FEUDALISM MUST GO.

. MEXICAN HNANCE MINISTER'S In a review of the crisis in Mexico, published in Paris on February 20, Scnor Joso lose Limautour, who was Minister lor Finance in the Cabinet of President Diaz, declares that the only basis for peace was that the insurgents lay down their arms pending negotiations with tho Government, whicn on its part should grant a reform of tho evils that made the revolution possible. The only alternative that ho foresaw was the probabil- !; y . a . , on ff> w «stiiig struggle, for, said the Minister, "tho Federal troops aro no match ior the cowboy insurgents." In the opinion of Senator Liniantour, tho feudal system in Mexico must go, and the great estates in tho north, which have been passed from family to family, should be distributed among the people. liiG Minister ninkes three buggestious— first, the abuses contaminating local administrations as in the cities and towns which have the greatest grievances, should bo immediately abolished; second, some means should be found to allow the people to share more extensively in the holdings of land; in the third place, there is opposition to President Diaz on the ground that he has been too long in office and that new blood is needed. But, added the Minister, "Diaz was legally returned to tho Presidency by the people." ' I dislike to touch on tho delicate question of neutrality," continued tho Minister, "but I am convinced that tho United States interpretation is too restricted. Unless it is enlarged it will seriously imperil the Government's chances of quelling tho revolution. Mexico prevents Guatemalan revolutionists from remaining near the frontier just as France at tho time of the Portuguese revolution forccd (ho Carlists living near the Spanish frontier to remove at least 200 kilometres from the border oil tho ground that their nearness constituted a menace to a friendly Power. "Why cannot the United States adopt the same attitude and not only arrest armed revolutionists, if found 'crossing into Mexico, but also prevent revolutionary meetings and the dispatch of arms and ships?"