. The Saturday evening post. visualized as practical ques-tions, but rather as skeletons in the cupboard to be kepthidden out of sight. Thus time, with its alternations oflife and death, its silent burial of cherished hopes and theemergence of new aspirations, passed by the peoples ofMexico, bringing them no new birth. The dictatorshiphad indeed become an oligarchy, but this change of mas-ters produced no surcease of misery among the population;and it was left to the partisans of the regime who hadcrushed out all legal opposition to sap the foundations ofthe fabric which they themselves had so
. The Saturday evening post. visualized as practical ques-tions, but rather as skeletons in the cupboard to be kepthidden out of sight. Thus time, with its alternations oflife and death, its silent burial of cherished hopes and theemergence of new aspirations, passed by the peoples ofMexico, bringing them no new birth. The dictatorshiphad indeed become an oligarchy, but this change of mas-ters produced no surcease of misery among the population;and it was left to the partisans of the regime who hadcrushed out all legal opposition to sap the foundations ofthe fabric which they themselves had so laboriously builtup. This, however, they duly accomplished. A gifted North American observer published his im-pressions of these conditions as follows: There is not a Spanish-American state which hasproved its capacity for self-government as yet. It is a fairquestion whether any one of them would have been worseoff than it is to-day if Spanish rule had been maintainedin it. The chief exception is Mexico, but Mexico has been. it well, lauded its championsand advocated its principles,but that was all. He was reluc-tant to fight for it. For by thistime he possessed some land, onwhich he was successfully culti-kTA^^?^™^! vating chick-peas, a house in?V -A^*-- which he lived with his two children and their aunts — hisfirst wife having died some timebefore—and he was bending allhis energies to the maintenanceof his sisters and the rearing ofhis offspring. This attitudeof his toward the revolution isoutlined by himself with thatfrankness which is one of hismost attractive qualities, as fol-lows: The Maderist, or antireeleotionist, party was split into twosections: One composed of menresponsive to the call of duty,who left their homes and severedevery tie of family and of inter-est to shoulder a rifle, a shotgunor any other weapon they couldlay their hands on; and the otherof men who hearkened to thecall of fear, who found no arms,who had children who wouldbecome orphans if thei
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