The rising was organized partly by officers of the Army
and Navy who could not tolerate their exclusion from politics, and partly by other persons whose interests in political appointments have been threatened or swept away by the President's broom. The best thing that could happen now is that the President should use his victory, purchased by so heavy a toll of life and by so much destruction of property, for rebuilding the Consti. t•ution. It is well that officers should be kept out of politics but, after all, they were almost the only people who were given any adequate reason for being interested in politics. The peasants have been taxed but never consulted. If President Carmona can bring the people on the - land, particularly in the north, into the political family, he will provide a basis of stability which is now conspicuously absent. • * • *
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