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Identifier: saturdayeveningp1933unse (find matches)
Title: The Saturday evening post
Year: 1839 (1830s)
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Publisher: Philadelphia : G. Graham
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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f its obvious con-sequences roused bitter resentment in the hearts of the fewwho were inspired by principle, and found approval and aidamong the many who were actuated by self-interest. ForObregon therefore to take up arms against the man whohad so recently eulogized him was to enlist in a cause thatrelied upon a powerful backing and to breast a bloodyflood which might at any moment engulf himself and hiscomrades. The two figures of Madero and Huerta have oftenevoked sympathy or disgust among foreigners upongrounds that are at variance with historical facts; and inthe United States one is frequently confronted with theopinion that Huerta was the man whom President Wilsonought to have supported. I cannot share this view.Huerta was a highly shrewd desperado possessed by un-governable passions. It was only his untamable temperand freedom from all restraint that gave him the appear-ance of strength. He recognized no law, human or divine.Had he established his regime securely he would have
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People of Palszada, State of Campeche, Going to the Square to Hear General Alvaro Obregón Address Them misruled the country with arod of iron and demoralizedthe people irremediably.His policy abroad, coupledwith enforced peace at home,might indeed have suitedsome foreign investors anddomestic reactionaries, buteven they had no guarantythat the dubious advantageswhich they looked for wouldbe lasting. He treated thecountry as his footstool andthe people as his instru-ments. Freedom from therestraints of law and exemp-tion from punishment forcrimewere his personal priv-ilege. In an advanced stateof society such an individ-ual would be classed as adangerous criminal anddealt with accordingly.Mr. Wilsons detestationof the man was as wellgrounded as the acts inspir-ing it—by which Huertaoverstepped the limits ofmoral support—were unjus-tifiable and dangerous.Madero, on the other hand, was an honest, disinterestedvisionary whose principal merit lay in his courage andinitiative, coupled with th

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