Ted Leinhart
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THE PUZZLE OF MEXICO IN REVOLT by Arthur Rule This is a LibriVox recording.
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Read by Ted Leinhart Everybody has a guess.
How many know the facts behind the uprising?
mexico city march eighth nineteen eleven the news that twenty thousand united states troops were to mobilize on the mexican border for maneuvers and that a fleet was proceeding to the gulf waters probably as some one observed
to prevent ambitious tarpon from violating the neutrality laws came whispering out of the newspaper offices yesterday afternoon all the town knows it this morning and people are poring over their papers all along the streets and gathering in front of the bulletin boards late last evening on san francisco street
a man who was said never to have shown concern before advised me to lay in a stock of frijoles and averred that he was going to have a coat made with a japanese flag covering the back they're afraid of that said he somebody saw somebody else who said he heard somebody shouting viva madero in the heart of the city about ten o'clock this morning
mr liban tour close on the heels of a significant paris interview is nearing mexico and it really seems as if something new and definite might be about to happen in these vivacious and alluring streets where under a dazzling sun and in an air of spring sharpened as it were with autumnal frost
the sixteenth and twentieth centuries jostle one another as in few other places in the world in the continuous presence of a drama which however massed by the brisk surfaces of development and trade has at least an undertone of that already played in india egypt and south africa out of this bright complex and fascinating scene it has not been easy to detach the bare bones of the revolutionary situation
to generalize about mexico is useless the fine folks drive up the paseo in melancholy state pale and black as if mourning a past that can never return the patient brown substratum toils and smiles in childlike thoughtlessness at its poverty-stricken present
the foreign invaders cigars gripped firmly in their teeth stare straight ahead at the almighty dollar and all these must somehow be reconciled and adjusted to life as it is what a few men with rifles may do in this or that remote mountain pass or village seems far less impressive than what a great many men are doing everywhere with capital and machinery and modern business methods
what may happen to-morrow seems rather ephemeral compared with what will have happened in fifty or a hundred years such irrelevant and perhaps sentimental considerations aside it is still not easy to gather in a few words the many and dissociated threads of this long drawn-out wrangle
Mexico is a difficult place to generalize about, a place where it is curiously the case that each man's facts are true only to his own experience.
What is true in Chihuahua may be absurd in Colima.
Things happen, not according to set rules, but because somebody who had the power wanted them to happen that way.
The most radical insurrecto could scarcely ask for anything more
than the constitution under which the country has theoretically been governed since eighteen fifty seven at the border they told me that the whole nation was only waiting for a spark for one good life-sized grito to rise as a man when i reached the capital the fine horses of the gente
were still spanking up and down the drive the little newsboys filling the air with their wailing locust-like cries of the names of papers not yet suppressed and conservative americans who had spent many years in mexico asked if there was any revolution senor creel's theory a socialist movement
the other afternoon i had the pleasure of talking for a few moments with seor enrique creel minister of foreign affairs late ambassador at washington member of a family which owns some millions of acres of land in the state of chihuahua and therefore a fine old feudal gentleman or a villainous despot according to your point of view
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