The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 28, 1919, Page 6

"WONT: OTTO AUTO. HAVE Ta STOP “To BUY A BOND OF T XZ LIBERTY: LOAN 2 F.G.OPE: pe bet ZAPATA DIES, HIS. EMPIRE OF BLOOD CRUSHED BY KINDNESS Correspondent Neville Rides Through Mexico’s Defile of Death and Views Miracle of Regeneration Among Indian Peons Conquered by Bread FIRST AMERICAN Where Butche rexapeco, NEWSPAPERMAN TO ENTER VALLEY OF GORE By JA£K NEVILLE (American Newspaperman and Inves- tigatoer who has lived for years in Mexico and who has just spent four months there on special detail for the Daily Tribune), Cuautla, Mexico, April 28.—The death of Emiliano Zapata removes Mexico's most ruthless destructionist and implacable enemy of peaceful re- generation. | / \ Now, on the wreckage of his em- pire, where the rebel chief laughed at | civilization and played his huge, bol- shevik joke, on 100,000 confiding work- ers, General Pablo Gonzalez is plac- Ning firm underpinning for freedom and progress. Here in the world’s richest garden spot where exploited humanity has been kept poorest, and where Zapata “gave” his half-savage followers the land only to commandeer all crops— here the peon is for the first time in centurfes enjoying the fruits of his toil and supporting instead of hating government. Mexico has no. more dramatic or ificant story for Americans than this flower springing from the heel!anas with campaigns of terror Gon- prints of a barbarian. I am the first American newspaper- man to enter Zapataland. Escorted by soldiers, riding on trains. and horseback, I came a’ few days ago to the portals of Mexico’s bloodiest defile behind which the rebel leader‘ had held out since 1909 and from which he had twice sallied with hig ferocious forces to occupy Mexico ‘ity. ‘Scattered bands still prowl the hills, and there is still some danger. At the head of the pass our bugler called. An answering “all’s well” came from Car- ranza’s videttes, and following Gen- eyal Gustavo Elizondo, former Rough- rider with Roosevelt, our party ad- vanced. ‘A grizzled Indian sergeant told me of ambuscades. Here a whole regi- ment had been annihilated by Zapatis- tas last vear; there a troop of 21 fed- erals had been wiped out, and further aiong a handful of soldiers had cut their way through 500 Indians, last New Year’s day. Ten miles beyond the bloody portals “we drew rein. Below us swept the sunny plain of Morelos, with towers of ruined sugar mills, of churches and baronial estates rising above the trees. Smiling peons were planting the fields. ~.Their wives looked at us un- afraid, Children, half naked, romped gleefully. M, ‘These were the people, most of them surrendered Zapatistas, who a year ago, with hunger and age-old hatred, were, committing unspeakable atroci- ties under the savage guidance of the former plantation stirrup-boy. Gonzalez, a man with a vision, had wrought the. transformation. | with plows in place of -guns, bread instead of <butchery. ters—a heavy, quiet.man with piercin: black eyes. ked with Colonel macio Sanchez Niera, graduate of a 7 of i ith chee neha edicine; and with EL T. BURKE LAwyan = / I talked with him at his headquar- | eavalryman and miner in N Alaska. These three men, Amegicanized,_ progressive, fo: hted,}are con- verting a principality with 160,- 000 souls into the firm bulwark of a regenerated Mexico. evada and} ¢ “Here,” said Gonzalez with a wide sweep of his hand, “where the soil is the richest in the world, its tillers have always been kept poorest an most mi§erable. i abet “They are now having their first chance. “It if hard* for anyone but them to comprehend just what that means—bread enough, freedom, hap- piness.” Before I went out among the peo- ple, Gonzalez told me the history of Morelos and the Suriano Indians—one of tyranny of the haciendados; of de- struction by Zapata; of his own prac- tical plans of reconstruction. He told me of the richness of More- los soil, with two heavy crops a year, sometimes four; of land paying the agriculturist four hundred for one! Where other generals of various re- gimes had failed to subdue the Suri- zalez had come with a plan of con- ciliation. Amnesty was proclaimed. The Surianos were told to surrender their arms, receive a bonus of ten dollars for each gun, seed, farming imple- ments, a temporary division of certain lands and_steady jobs with good pay and short hours. It won. ' Here is what Gonzalez did: Seized 265 acres from an hacienda bordering Cuautla and told the over- crowded people to build homes. Gave them protection from hacien- dado and marauder. Reduced the fourteen hour working day to eight hours and raised the wage from fifty centavos to fram one dollar to a dollar and a half, Opened schools, hired more teach- every child to studying. Told the fifteen owners or adminis- trators of the entire state of Morelos they would have to get out of the country. Permitted individuals to lease the great haciendas from the owners, pay- ing a nominal rent and guaranteeing tia Sa aemaney aN $2,000 PELT—IT’S | SILVER FOX érs, doubled their salaries and put} ry Failed; Days of Terror Are No More v all taxes. Permitted peons who wished to work for themselves to occupy un- tilled portions of. the plantations. To the administrators of the great d | estates he submitted a plan to fraction the land. He told them their monop- oly was gone, but promised fair re- muneration. \ They accepted. The estates, some of which were | originally; given to courtiers by the Spanish crown and which during four | centuries owners’ have ‘not’ ‘seen, are | ‘being divided into farms of from ten to 1000 acres. No man is to own less than ten’ or more than 1000. The land is to sell at from ten to; 100 dollars an acre, according to its location and water supply. A peon may buy by paying one tenth down, the balance by installments in ten years. No peon is to mortgage or sell his land, because Gonzalez be- lieves few landowners will par- ticipate in uncalled for rebellion. He has planned to harness the tur-, bulent Balsas river and to furnish water, light and power to the entire} state. He has planned an electric line to traverse the state and connect with the interurbans just ottside Mexico City. " He is teaching ‘intensive! farm- ing to the former Zapatistas, and, by means of lectures and movies, is showing the Indian the prog- ress of the civilized world. He has organized bands to furnish music to the Indians—not doleful, weepy stuff but gladsome energy- supplying jazz. _He is furnishing free transporta- tion into the state for colonists and ministrative officials and has made the Surianes their own policemen. Hospitals, clinics and free markets. have been erected, kK He has impressed the. Indian that there will be no mopolies. I heard him refuse to permit a hotel keeper to open a second hotel when his original hostelry became over- crowded. “Nothing that. savors of monopoly,” he‘ told the man. Jack Neville interviewing a number. of former bloodthirsty Zapatistas once again peaceful agriculturists. (Inset), Gen. 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