ANOTHER MEXICAN REVOLT

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 239, 3 July 1920, Page 7

ANOTHER MEXICAN REVOLT

OBREGONV POLICY DISAGREED WITH, . ~/. Vera Cruz, July 1.. General ■ Calros Clum'a is leading another Mexican revolution bccansorie disagrees with President Obrcgon's policy.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. \ ' MEXICAN PRESIDENTS. ' With the single exception of I'.orfirio Diaz, who filled the office of uresident for thirty-five years, the rulers of Mexico have been mainly a, precession of ■ transient nnd embarrassed'phantoms" flitting across the politi' cal stage of the troubled country (states the London "Telegraph"). Since Mexico threw oft' the yoko 'of Spain in 1822 and John O'Donoju," the last of tho'sixty-four Spanish viceroys! fled'back to Europe, there have boen. almost as many presidents as there havo been years. The ill-fated Emperor Maximilian,*, who was propped upon the throne of Mtxico by l'rench bayonets for three uneasy, years, was dethroned and shot as- soon is the ■United States-forced-NapoJeon-'lit to withdraw his .troops in 1866. Napoleon desired to 'support Maximilian, but tho United States had over ,1,000,000 trained and hardened veterans under arms (the Civil War had just closed), and hinted very plainly that she would use theni to vindicate.the»Monroe doctrine. So the French:, withdrew, and the Emperor fell'.. The usual. Mexican anarchy ouceeeded. With the advent of Diaz a.lotig period of peace and prosperity followed for Mexico, though the methods by which thes« blessings wore secured were not such as vould commend themselves to Britisii people, with the perhaps, of the. Sinn. Feiners. •. :. • . President Diai: really" fell, because he ignored the peons and did'nothing to relieve their lot. To anyone who knew the condition of slavery in whick the miserable peons Jived there is little cause for wonder, that the old. despot .nas unable to hold his ground against Francesco Madero's promise to tnem that ha would give each a mule and land of his own. Madoro. therefore became < president and ruled.for fourteen months,- whim he too was overthrown and.MKcd, To him succeeded "General" Victorano, Huerta, who'until then had been making a comparatively honest living ca a retail • dealer hi potatoes. Huerta's outstanding characteristic was appreciation of "pulque,-" the national . beverage of Mexico. During his, term as president revolution was endemic, and the Northern States were never subject to his rule but were subject to-Carraaza, Villa, and other rebels; while Zapata' troubled large districts south of Mexico City. In July, 1914, Huerta resigned, and,Carranza (; after, a Jong struggle with his. competitors for tho place of honour and profit, was recognised as head of tho Meticau Government by most American and European States 'in December, 1915. His tenure of office has been longer than that of most of his predecessors, but he, too, has been driven out by a' revolution.