. The Saturday evening post. of the cardinal fact that from the daywhen he first left his home to take up armsagainst the enemies of good governmentObregon consistently strove to permeate histroops with a spirit of humanity and moder-ation, while most of the hostile bodiesagainst which he fought had no ethical ideawhatever, no guiding principle, and heldout no attraction but such as proceeded fromthe prospect of license, loot, promotion orthe gratitude of a chief to whom they were Does he not support you? Is he out ofwork? My husband is with General Orozco,fighting, so I have to do the best I
. The Saturday evening post. of the cardinal fact that from the daywhen he first left his home to take up armsagainst the enemies of good governmentObregon consistently strove to permeate histroops with a spirit of humanity and moder-ation, while most of the hostile bodiesagainst which he fought had no ethical ideawhatever, no guiding principle, and heldout no attraction but such as proceeded fromthe prospect of license, loot, promotion orthe gratitude of a chief to whom they were Does he not support you? Is he out ofwork? My husband is with General Orozco,fighting, so I have to do the best I can forthe children. Well, my good woman, take this littlepresent from me. It will help you get some-thing more substantial than roots for your-self and family to eat; and with that Ihanded her a twenty-peso gold piece. Butshe gave me a look half defiant, half con-temptuous, and said she did not need mygold. I shall never forget that look. Iveseldom felt more humiliated in my a hurried apology, I bade her good. were common aims, per-sonal attachment andloyalty. Naturally thisideal relationship could subsist only solong as the men under his orders were rel-atively few; but Obregon assures me thatit was fairly well maintained among asmany as three thousand men. Very soon,however, owing to his rapid advancement,his command extended far beyond theradius within which his moralizing per-sonal influence could directly reach andeffectually mold it, however earnestly hemight strive to imbue it with his own spiritof justice and moderation. It includedlarge numbers of uncultured men from otherarmies—men on whom long years of sub-jection followed by brief intervals of satur-nalian license had left an abiding it was sheerly impossible to keep theseelements always well in hand. Amongthe officers, too, as one learns from Obre-gons own accounts, were men whose moralcharacter was streaked with inferior orcorrupt fiber. As for the general himself, itshould be noted that
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