Must Divide Mexican Land.

New York Times 100 years ago today, May 25, 1913:
Senor Braniff Believes That Is the Solution of the Country's Problem.
Special to The New York Times.
    WASHINGTON, May 23.— Senor Oscar J. Braniff of Mexico City, who is in Washington on a business trip, has seized the opportunity to size up conditions in the United States as affecting Mexico, and has sounded Government and public opinion. Senor Braniff, who is a director of a bank in Mexico, and was one of the envoys who arranged peace with Madero two years ago, believes his country's ills are curable and that he knows the remedy.
    "A grievous economic condition is the basis of all the unrest in troubled Mexico," said he. "Correction of this condition must be the keynote of any movement that will bring to pass a stable reform for permanent progress.
    "The land must be rapidly subdivided and redistributed, and a large farming class assisted to become self-supporting. With accumulation of property, and the more general distribution of national wealth, the peace-loving attribute of industry will be developed, and brigandage no longer will be an attractive occupation because of the easy living it affords. To enable the plan for the general distribution of land to be put into effect Mexico needs an army strong enough to suppress disorders until the readjustment shall have been accomplished."
    Senor Braniff thinks the pacification of Mexico should be intrusted to President Huerta, and his hands supported by all who have that purpose at heart. If the United States would recognize the Huerta government Senor Braniff would welcome it as tending to strengthen the arm of Huerta.