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This was a rising of the mestizos and the Indians.

Alvaro Obregon was fighting Pancho Villa too. He was an Indian who was a proper general, properly trained in the Mexican army. Pancho Villa was not. He was much more a bandit type who had great skill in organization apparently - a natural flare for military tactics.

All I remember is Reed's description of this picturesque horde with its bandit quality, its Robin Hood ethics and its emotional appeal to all the people because they were just like the people. This was the people rising. This would be good because it was the people. I remember that was considerable of a puzzle to me _ “It would have to be good because it was the people.” I thought at this moment Reed, whom I didn't know but remember plainly at this meeting, seemed to me to be emotionally disturbed. He was taking a position which didn't have any natural sense in it. There was no reason that because people were poor and lived on the land that they should necessarily be more right than other people who had studied the matter a little. Both kinds could be right. He just condemned Madero because he was too well educated, and separated from the people. I'd seen town meetings all my life and I know that the people could do pretty stupid things that were not necessarily right.