UNHAPPY MEXICO.
VIVID PICTURE OF A CHAOTIC COUNTRY. PEONAGE AND SLAVERY. " i By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright "Times"—Sydney "Sun" Special.Cablcs. ' London, December J. The Mexican correspondent of "Tho Times" states that almost all the land in Mexico is held by tho rich people, who manage to escapo taxation, i Numberless peons have been fraudulently deprived of their holdings, while Indians, who aro totally ignorant of tlio land regulations, have lost their property and are becoming slaves. No Presidents were ever legally electillegalities being tolerated becauso thero was not. public opinion in Mexico. Tho condition of tlio country was very comparable to that of Russia in tlio eighteenth century, and it would take generations to raiso it. The present- war, the correspondent states, was mainly provoked by Madera's assassination. No principles were at stake, and it was one of tho most pitiable, wars in history.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1925, 6 December 1913, Page 5
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142UNHAPPY MEXICO. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1925, 6 December 1913, Page 5
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