Chaos in Mexico

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Mar 25, 1913

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 40, No. 12.

THE CAPITAL AT WASHINGTON, with the stand prepared for the inauguration services. In the upper part of the picture is the reviewing stand of the president, made after the pattern of Jefferson's house at Monticello.

THE El Paso Herald, published right on the very border of Mexico, has very little hope in present conditions in Mexico. In a recent issue, under an editorial entitled, “Lo, Chaos Is Restored,” it says that “an angel of good cheer, indeed, is the man who can see any light ahead in the Mexican situation. It was never darker, never more confused than now.” The editor declares that no man should gloat over Madero’s fall, but he thinks that Mexico has little to hope for from the men who have succeeded Madero. He says:

“A military dictatorship, if it be strong enough, can hold things level. This is the only hope for peace in Mexico. There is a scant hope of settlement by surrender or by compromise, and any settlement by purchase would be only a temporary arrangement, with no secure foundation.”

“There is one argument to sustain the position of those who look for prolonged peace. Under the military dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz the nation enjoyed much progress, considerable stability, and substantial peace for a third of a century. Under Madero’s ‘representative democracy’ it did not know progress, stability, or peace for one single day.”

And then we are told to watch for factions to split further, watch the leaders forsake the masses, watch the malcontents, the new revolutions, etc., etc., etc. “Primeval chaos has been restored in Mexico. That MAN that the prophet Ezekiel was looking for in 620 B.C. has not shown up.”

And this is the fruit of Roman Catholicism in a country where it was the teaching force for hundreds of years.