Plan de Tlaltizapán, 1911.

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Plan de Tlaltizapán, 1911.

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The collection consists of the Plan de Tlaltizapan, dated July 26, 1911, which is four pages on two oversized sheets of paper. In May 1911, Francisco I. Madero succeeded in toppling the dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz, thus initiating the Mexican Revolution. This document, dating from the first three months of the Revolution, begins with a cry for effective agrarian law, an end to monopolies and haciendas, and the supremacy of the people (Ley Agraria Efectiva. Abajo los monopolies de tierra, montes y agues!!! Mueran las haciendas!!! Vivan los pueblos!!! Muera el agitoismo!!!). There follows an open letter to the "Dear People of the State of Morelos" which declares that the "cry of rebellion ... is the roaring hurricane which ... ll save the people." It singles out Emilian Zapata as the leader of the "valiant and stoic Liberation Army of Morelos" and names the "Spaniards" as the "rich" opposition. The Plan itself is comprised of six articles or "bases." The first establishes the primacy of Madero as the Revolutionary leader of Mexico and the secondary importance of interim president de la Barra. Article three states that the "Principal theme of our Plan is that the people should be superior to the hacienda, and not vice versa" (El tema Capital de nuestro Plan es: que los pueblos sean superiores a las haciendas y no estas superiors a los pueblos). It is signed by Jose Trinidad Ruiz, as President and Boss of the Agrarian Popular Cabinet.

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The Faithist movement was founded by a New York dentist and doctor named John B. Newbrough, who claimed to have written a new Bible, called Oahspe, while under spirit control. Contained in this Bible was "The Book of Shalam," which set forth a plan for gathering the outcast and orphaned children of the world and raising them, according to strict religious principles, to be the spiritual leaders of a new age. Newbrough and some twenty Faithists, as his followers were called, decided to create suc...

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