Appendix I 



under Benito Juarez's "Law of Reform." Clericos as well as 

 cientificos must take their chances in the revolt for which their 

 own blindness is largely responsible. We cannot assume that 

 the inordinate concessions held in New York and London, 

 secured from Porfirio Diaz in his senile days . . . are valid titles 

 to be sealed with the blood of our young men. 



The American public in general regards as all of one piece 

 the Revolution against unbearable conditions, the anarchy 

 brought on by the Revolution (and which it has thus far 

 failed to subdue), and the ignorance, poverty, and injustice 

 for which it sought a remedy. Revolt is never law-abiding; 

 in its appeal to higher law it lifts the lid from society. When 

 traditional or conventional restraints are dissolved, injustice 

 and robbery are likely to ensue. But once under way, revolu- 

 tion must go forward. No backward movement by whom- 

 soever led or supported could endure. . . . The era of Porfirio 

 Diaz has gone forever. Mexico could no more return to 

 it than France to the regime of Napoleon III. The Mexican 

 people will secure peace only by deserving it, and to this end 

 military force, their own or any other, can contribute very 

 little. Bandit violence, however mischievous, is merely a 

 feature of transition not the Revolution itself, but a tem- 

 porary, though hideous, excrescence upon it. 



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