IN MEXICO.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 2 December 1913, Page 5

IN MEXICO.

CABBANZA claims victory

'Times'—'Sydney Sunl Special Cables /Received Deo. 1, 8.30 a.m.) MEXICO CITY, Nov. 30.

General Carranza. the Nationalist leader, affirms that he has beaten the Federals everywhere, and is now preparing to take the field even on., a larger scale. /

[ln a recent issue the New York Post remarked: Another terrible blow for the hard-headed expert—this time in Mexico. Those practical, wellinformed, dispassionate ''observers" of Mexican conditions,.who criticised President Wilson's policy towards, Huerta as one of childish sentimentality and mistaken ethics, in antagonism with.the "facts,' ? are now under the necessity of admitting the painfully unsubstantial nature of their "facts.". Repeatedly we have protested in these columns against the superstition which confounds brutality with effidency. Because a successful dictator, like Porfiro Diaz, must be ruthless in hie policies, people embrace the converse of the.pro-, position, and assume that crime and violence are the proofs of efficient despotism. Because Huerta attained power through a succession of acts of revolting perfidy and outrage, very respectable people jumped at the conclusion that Huerta must be the heaven-sent man for Mexico. It would have • been sentimental to look beneath the surface of things, to try to ascertain whether the democratic uprising that drove Diaz from power had really spent itself, or.whether Madero's death did not altogether extinguish the spirit of resistance to despotism. But President Wilson did look beneath the surface. A pleasant time we should be having today with Huerta enjoying our official approval, playing .the dictators and, in spite of it, iiearing his inevitable downfall.]