Mexican Revolution

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 13, 2 June 1911, Page 14

Mexican Revolution

Rebels' Striking Manifesto.

Tho following is an extract from a man ifo* to issu ed throng! 1 l '11•ogencraofon," the official organ of the Mexican Party. Comment is unnecessary, as it speaks for itself: '"'Here we are again in the field, tho torch of revolution in our right liand and the program of the Liberal Party in the loft. And vro declare "•"V." Wo are not winning messengers of peace, we are revolutionists. Our ballots will be the bullets issuing from our rifles. From this day on the dagger of the mercenaries of the Czar will not strike any longer the unprotected breast of the citizen exercising his lawful duties of citizenship, but will be met by the bayonets of the rebels ready to pay back blow for blow. It would be insane to answer with the law the supreme and immune dis-respe-etion of the law. It would be absurd to reach for the penal code to get effective defence from the aggression of the dagger or of the Sey Fuga of the violator of all codes. They use the lextalioirs ; we should retaliate. They want to treat us to bullets, we shall submit them to the same treatment.

And now, to work ! Let cowards Ft and aside, we do not • want them. Only tho brave should enlist in the revolution.

Here we are again in tho field as'ot old in the vanguard of the battle. The martyrdom has imbued us with new with a greater determination. Ws are ready for greater sacrifice. We corao to toll the Mexican people thattho day -of tlieir liberation is at hand. Our eyes look into the glorious dawn and tlie new day. Our ears catch the rumbling of the approaching salutatory storm ready to descend upon us. The spirit of the. Revolution is the leaven at work. Our entire fatherland is a volcano ready to emit flames of wrath from its bowels. 'No more peace!' is the evill of the. .brave. 'Better death than that infamy of a grim mockery of Doaci 1 . , We see the heroes to co-mo, their hair floating in the breeze of the first puffs of wind of the approaching tragedy. A. crisp and strong and healthy breath of war invigorates an effeminate environment. From lip to lip the word will sound the beginning *)i- the catastrophe, and impatiently the rifles wait for the moment to abandon the hiding in which they now repose, to shine in uplifted luuids under the sun of the battlefield. Mexicans, rise up to war."