AFTER @ year or two of quiescence Mexico is proving true to type and has resumed her principal avocation of revolution-making. She has been for some time out of the limelight, the only interest she afforded to the outside world being the amount of silver she produced and the oil contracts which powerful European or American groups could secure. But on December 7 she became a centre of attraction for very many people throughout the world. From Vera Cruz came the news that five States were in revolt against President Obregon, being ''resolved to defend the institutions against which the Government had been offending in violating the sovereignty of the States and refusing to permit free functioning of their legislative powers.'' One excuse seems a good as another for a revolutionary movement in Mexico, for,.s in almost every case in the past, it is some ambitious or disgruntled army commander who is taking his fate in both hands and making a bid for power. For President Obregon's alleged violations of the sovereignty of the States or any other academic feature of the present movement We, at this distance, need have no thought, but the revolt is of very great importance to us for the effect it may have upon the country's production of silver and as a consequence upon the money market, while in a lesser degree the fact that the oil district of Tampico is affected calls for our attention.
President Obregon, the man with whom the revolutionaries have to deal, is a sufficiently striking personality to claim our interest. His career so far as politics are concerned opened about the close of the lengthy reign of Porfirio Diaz, and from that time to this he has been in the thick of revolutions and
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