Ted Leinhart
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first heard Aug 2026
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Outbreaks elsewhere have not coalesced into anything that the Federal troops could not handle when they really went at the difficulty in force.
At the same time,
The burning of bridges and tearing up of railroad tracks and telegraph lines, the raiding of towns and skirmishes with federal troops, goes on just as it has gone on for months.
Foreign capital is responsible.
In the North, the government is confronted with much the same situation that ours had to meet in dealing with the Apaches.
The Apaches, indeed, used to fight and hide over the same country that Orozco is skipping about in now.
only in this case the enemy is composed of quite modern men very acutely aware of the fact that foreign capital will not forever stand by and see its business ruined the big smelter at el paso closed down day before yesterday because the supply of mexican ore has been cut off and business in chihuahua is said to be at a standstill when there is talk of foreign intervention because the government is not able to handle the situation
this is what is really meant there has been no indication that the government could not beat the insurrectos in a fair fight there have been many indications that it could not prevent the insurrectos from hindering business and mexico is what she is to-day materially because of foreign capital americans alone are supposed to have nearly a billion dollars invested here
when therefore twenty thousand american soldiers suddenly mobilize on the mexican border a certain new tension comes into the air even though the army comes but to manoeuvre even though in the thrilling mexican sunshine the little hooded victorias scurry up and down as busily as ever
the ancient plazas are as dreamily sweet with orange blossoms and in the cool shade of the alameda or the iturbide restaurant the dollar princess is being played by the ninety-seventh band it is typical of mexico and of the present disturbance that nobody knows what is going to happen
and that those who have been here a few days seem as able and of course much more ready prophets as those who have lived here for twenty years the old way was to get your man down stand on his neck and then perhaps you might talk of concessions to the government to old don porfirio this naturally seems the only way but they cannot get their many-headed man down perhaps it will be necessary to try a new way
to say here this has gone on long enough whom do you want and what do you want let's talk it over frankly and get back to work a news crisis of course the mobilization of our troops seems a sort of crisis a crisis at least in the news but you have but to go into these busy streets and look about you
look at that still unfinished new national theatre a gorgeous white marble palace thrice as magnificent as anything of the sort in the states and the half-starved peons under it see the army buying seven aeroplanes because a troop of birdmen the first happen to arrive in mexico city while the soldiers fighting in the north have no commissary department except the camp women following along
see new and old continually milling and clashing just as they are clashing this instant in the patio of my hotel once a monastery garden where in order to make room for an office building they are chopping down trees four feet through that look as if they might have stood here for three hundred years
it's a pity i said to the porter at the gate the other day on coming back to find the biggest of them down see he nodded slowly pobrecito poor little fellow see the aristocracy with its archaic traditions the plodding half-awakened common people the foreigner with his keen eyes and initiative and money see all this and the many forces harrying the state
And remember that no matter what happens tomorrow or next day, the hand that has held all these fascinatingly chaotic forces together for thirty years is the hand of an old warrior nearly eighty-three, who cannot, it would seem, step forward or backward or peacefully give the reins over to someone else.
The mere facts as they are make crisis enough.
Thomas A. Edison, Greatest of Inventors by Charles D. Lanier.
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