MEXICO'S CIVIL WAR.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1548, 18 September 1912, Page 7

MEXICO'S CIVIL WAR.

UPHEAVAL FAILS TO TAKE PLACE. Bj Telezrsujh—Press Aesociatlon-CoDTrfelit Mexico City, September 16. Independence Day, the date reputed to have been fixed for a' revolutionary upheaval, passed with few disorders. There were further anti-Madero demonstrations, and cheering for ex-President Diaz.

MADEROiAND HIS TROUBLES. "It is /the folly of nations," says the Abbe Coignard, "to found vast hopes on the fall of princes," nnd it was widely thought in Mexico that, Diaz having been expelled, earth would become as heaven. That the wholo of the abuses under Diaz

would be instantly removed was no less credited than that the burden of all Mexicans would either be much lighter or would actually be removed from .oft' their shoulders. Now (writes Henry Baerlein in the "Manchester Guardian") it is no longer perilous to be a journalist in Mexico, now there is no dungeon in Belem reserved for editors, and in the National Assembly there is no restraint upon .the native eloquence of Mexicans. But some of the old-time abuses cannot be so quickly remedied; for instance, in Chihuahua,

where Orozco was the leader of Madero's rebel army, it lias not yet happened that the vast estates of General Luis Terrazns have been confiscated. It will need ranch close examination teforo it can be ascertained what part of his property the General acquired by legal methods. Other properties in Coahuila, including that of

the Madero family—exasperate the average Mexican, because they arc so large. It is admitted that the landlords are not all pernicious, and that much of this high country is quite unproductive, yet there is undoubtedly much discontent on this account. But one ventures to ■ suppose that many Mexicans will be prepared to let Madero have his chance. The task is hard enough.

The President declines to use the drastic methods of Porfirio Diaz, and General

Trevino, who hnd a military zone under Diaz, does not relish what appears to him as so much weakness'. He , does'riot believe

tliat Mexicans can be controlled in sucli n way, and he is not prepared to be upon the losing. side; that is why he stands ingainst _Madero. And simultaneously with tiiis kind of trouble there is great exasperation in Diaz's old army, for it was a delicate task to introduce into the corps Df officers those rebel conquerors whose education had been wholly gathered in the field.