Intervention in Mexico

nd he was saying "No Com- prendo." The disturbed conditions south of the Rio Grande are proving only too clearly that indeed he does not understand. The deep truths of democracy are yet beyond his ken. He has not learned how to accept defeat with grace, to discuss issues without personalities, to confide in his fellowman, to unite factions for the common good. He has not learned to go two miles with the man who compels him to go one; that the man who hears and does is the man whose house stands; that before the tower is built one must sit down and count the cost; that he who puts his hand to the plough must not look back; that only he who loses his life shall find it again. All this we must candidly admit. But whose fault is it that he does not know these things?His own? The Mexican learns when he has a chance. But collectively he has never had a chance. His "No Comprendo," far from being the flippant response of a don't-care, the subject for the funny column of a newspaper, is really the wail of a neglected soul, rent with grief and passion, who finds no one to explain to him the deep mysteries of life. In the first place, the Mexicans are a dislocated people. When Spain established herself in the country the respective tribes occupied a definite place in social evolution. They had a well organized religion, agricultural system, and government. These three indispensable items of normal development were wholly disrupted by the Spaniards, who endeavored by fo... --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.