But there is the reverse of the medal. As all strong people have their compensation in some flaw, so has Zapata a great weakness which prevents him from becoming the greatest factor for good in his country. His illiteracy, coupled with a lack of knowledge of politicians of the middle and higher class, make him an easy prey to all sorts of schemers and intriguers. For years Zapata kept up his guerrilla warfare, accompanied by a staff of officers and several secretaries. One of the most famous was a certain Montaño, a school-teacher who wrote the first plan which Zapata endorsed. The second plan, which was written by a certain Palafox, another secretary, and was named the Plan of Ayala, which acknowledged Orozco as the provisional president, when he rebelled against Madero, assisted by Científico money. After Madero’s murder, Orozco joined the standard of Huerta, who, true to his usual methods, tried to use Orozco’s influence with Zapata, to eliminate him. Orozco went to Morelos for the purpose of conferring with Zapata, but the wily Morelian had discovered that the meeting was not meant to bring peace, but to facilitate his capture and murder. As Orozco was not very brave, and his conscience not very clear, instead of going personally to the meeting, he sent instead his father and two other agents. As an answer to the contemplated plot, Zapata took Orozco’s father and his two agents as prisoners. Later they were found dead, after an attack by the Federals. Orozco vowed vengeance, but he left Cuernavaca in great haste under the pretext of going North to fight the Constitutionalists, where he was defeated at every encounter. Any one who had read Mexican newspapers would have known how discredited Orozco’s personality was, but Zapata’s secretaries wanted a continuation of conditions wherein they would run the Morelian chief for their own benefit. When Carranza arrived in Mexico City with the constitutionalist government, he sent two agents to Zapata, with power to settle the agrarian question in Morelos, once for all. The following letter by Gen. A. I. Villareal will show how Zapata’s secretaries spoiled the settlement. MEXICO, Sept. 5th, 1914. GENERAL EMILIANO ZAPATA: Cuernavaca, Mor. _Esteemed General_: