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# Mexico's Struggle Towards Democracy/Chapter 3

SUMMARY
In the revolution of 1857–1867, the Mexican middle class and masses overthrew the Spanish-Creole feudal land-owners, chief of which was the Catholic church. In this struggle European commercial interests added the conservatives, while those of the United States aided the revolutionists.
During the period of reaction, 1876–1910, foreign investors became the dominant economic power in Mexico. A large proportion of the land fell into their hands, was concentrated in vast estates, and held out of cultivation for speculative purposes. Two-thirds of the population of Mexico remained practically serfs upon these estates.
In 1910, the Mexican middle-class and the masses, driven by increasing misery, again rose in revolution. Again the clashing interests of foreign investors, now centering about the development of the oil fields, ranged them upon opposing sides.
The Mexican people won. They are alive with ambition for education, for better living conditions, for expression of their own racial and national character. The present Mexican Government has shown ability and courage. It seeks to regain some of the land for the use of the people who toil upon it and a little of the vast wealth which is being extracted from mines and oil fields.
The power of United States investors has been greatly increased by the world war. They are unwilling to abide by the laws of the country from which they draw their wealth. They endeavor by ​intrigue to overthrow the Mexican Government and substitute one which will be their willing tool. They demand and receive the support of the United States Government. They welcome the agitation of the corrupt Mexican Catholic church, which has always oppressed the masses, and use the plea of religious tolerance to stir up popular feeling in the United States. Will the people of the United States allow themselves to be used to crush the rising people of Mexico?
# Mexico's Struggle Towards Democracy

This is the second expanded edition.
Mexico's Struggle Towards Democracy
The Mexican Revolutions of 1857 and 1910
By
MARGARET SHIPMAN
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Mexico's Struggle Towards Democracy
The Mexican Revolutions of 1857 and 1910
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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# Mexico's Struggle Towards Democracy/Introduction

INTRODUCTION
SIXTY-FIVE YEARS ago Civil War, of which the basic cause was the institution known as chattel slavery, began in the United States. At the same time, a still more bitter internal conflict was waged in Mexico. Benito Juarez led the small property-owners and oppressed masses against the great feudal land-owners, chief of which was the Catholic church, established in Mexico by the Spanish conquerors.
Civil war in Mexico lasted ten years, during half of which French invaders assisted the feudalists. Throughout this conflict the United States supported the cause of Juarez. President Buchanan and and Grant urged military intervention in his behalf. Abraham Lincoln assisted him by official recognition and shipments of arms and finally demanded withdrawal of the French troops.
The Church lost its great estates, but during the period of reaction, 1876 to 1910, it regained some of them. The balance of power, however, fell into the hands of foreign investors; those of the United States, in 1910, owned nearly half the wealth of Mexico.
Today the Mexican government is again in controversy with the Catholic church. The press and the politicians of the United States profess horror at the religious intolerance of the Mexican govern​ment. The United States Government maintains a threatening attitude regarding protection of American interests which may at any time break into open hostilities. What has caused this change of front on the part of the United States toward Mexico? The following accounts of the Mexican Revolutions of 1857 and 1910 discuss the economic factors involved, and their relations to the United States.
# Mexico

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# Mexico's dilemma

BY
CARL W. ACKERMAN
AUTHOR OF "GERMANY, THE NEXT REPUBLIC?"
ILLUSTRATED
NEW YORK GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
COPYRIGHT. 1918. BY GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1917.
BY THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1917.
BY AMERICAN ACADEMY OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
CONTENTS. :
| | | page |
| Introduction | Introduction | v |
| The Zimmermann Note | The Zimmermann Note | xviii |
| chapter ||
| I. | A Bird's-Eye View | 19 |
| II. | The Mexican Puzzle | 24 |
| III. | Rebels and Revolutions | 48 |
| IV. | Germany's Ally at Tampico | 68 |
| V. | The Last Spy Offensive | 98 |
| VI. | Rising or Setting Sun in Mexico | 117 |
| VII. | The Future | 136 |
| Appendix | Appendix | 141 |
| A. | Financial Bills | 143 |
| B. | The New Mexican Constitution | 153 |
| C. | Mexican Railways | 264 |
| D. | The American Chamber of Commerce. | 273 |
| E. | The Last Mexican Election | 279 |
ILLUSTRATIONS. :
| A Mexican Cartoonist's View of Señor Cabrera | Frontispiece. |
| | page |
| Mexican Villagers Who Turned Out to See Señor Fletcher | 28 |
| Ambassador Fletcher's Military Escort | 28 |
| Cover for the German Newspaper of Mexico | 36 |
| This Was at One Time a Beautiful Residence | 52 |
| The Famous "Saddle Mountain" of Monterey | 52 |
| The U. S. Warships at Anchor in Tampico Harbor | 70 |
| An Oil Gusher at Tampico | 70 |
| The Gusher of the Cerro Azul Oil Well—600 Feet High | 80 |
| Another View of Germany's Leaders | 100 |
| Cover Cartoon of Ambassador Fletcher | 112 |
| Terra Cotta Heads Found by Prof. Niven | 122 |
| An Aztec Family Tree | 122 |
| Professor William Niven | 132 |
| List of the Presidents of Mexico, Gen. Porfirio Diaz to Lic. Francisco Garbajal | 162 ​ |
| List of Presidents of Mexico, Eulalio Gutierrez to C. Venustiano Carranza | 178 |
| The Ruined Railway Depot and Freight Cars at Monterey | 266 |
| A Typical Mexican Railway Train | 266 |
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# My Friend Annabel Lee/Chapter 3

MY FRIEND Annabel Lee never fails to fascinate and confound me.
Much as she gives, there is in her infinitely more to get.
My relation with her never goes on, and it never goes back. It leads nowhere. She and I stop together in the midst of our situation and look about us. And what we see in the looking about is all and enough to consider.
And considering, I write of it.
# My Friend Annabel Lee/Chapter 24

AND after some days my friend Annabel Lee wrote me this upon a square of rice paper:
Boston,—Monday.
Dear Mary MacLane:—Don't you know a gorgon is the knowingest thing in the land?
You may believe what your friend says of fair lilies.
But have I ever said that I am a fair lily?
As for my eyes—they are good chiefly to see with. And they are bad for many things.
Yes—get thee home soon, child.
I miss you when I come to deck me ​mornings with my lavender slip and my scarlet frock. And the gold marguerites have not been brushed since you went away.
Naught have I to bear me company except Ellen, the faithful little tan deer—and she can not wait upon me, and she cannot worship me.
What hast done with Martha Goneril the cat?
I would fain you had left her here.
But Mary MacLane—you. Do you know about it?
Your friend Annabel Lee.
# My Friend Annabel Lee/Chapter 8

"NO," SAID my friend Annabel Lee, "I can't really say that I care for Trowbridge. All that you have said is true enough, but he fails to interest me."
"What do you like in literature?" I asked, regarding her with interest, for I had never heard her say. It must need be something characteristic of herself.
"I like strength, and I like simplicity, and I like emotion, and I like vital things always. And I like poetry rather than prose. Just now," said Annabel Lee, "I am thinking of an old-fashioned bit of verse that to me is all that a poem need be. To have written it is to have done ​enough in the way of writing, because it's real—like your Trowbridge."
"Oh, will you repeat it for me!" I said.
"It is called, 'Give Me Three Grains of Corn, Mother.' It is of a famine in Ireland a great many years ago—a lad and his mother starving."
And then she went on:
"What do you think," said my friend Annabel Lee, "is it not full of power and poetry and pathos?"
"Yes, it could not in itself be better," I replied. "And it has the simplicity."
"And pretends nothing," said Annabel Lee.
"And who wrote it?" I asked.
"Oh, some forgotten Englishwoman," said Annabel Lee. "I believe her name was Edwards. She perhaps wrote a poem, now and then, and died."
"And are the poems forgotten, also?" I inquired.
"Yes, forgotten, except by a few. But when they remember them, they remember them long."
​"Then which is better, to be remembered, and remembered shortly, by the multitudes; or to be forgot by the multitudes and remembered long by the one or two?"
"It is incomparably better to be remembered long by the one or two," said Annabel Lee. "To be forgotten by any one or anything that once remembered you is sorely bitter to the heart."
# Modern Beau/The Modern Beau

THE MODERN BEAU.
MY daddy is dead and has left me some money, I’ll dress very fine and look very fancy, I'll buy a fine coach with fine horses to carry me. Who knows then but some young lady will ⟨marry me⟩ With my puff em , strut em, stride em Walk em, run em, ride em ⟨tol⟩
With my short coat to ride and my breeches leather, I look like a Cockney n w cut out of feather. Then I mount on my pad that so swiftly does ⟨carry⟩ me. And I nod as I pass to my Lord and Sir Harry. With my puff em &c.
I’ put on fine clothes, and go to the ball, Sir, Then pull out my glass and ⟨squint⟩ at them all, Sir, To be blind is the fashion, so I’ll be blind too, Sir. And if you peep at me, why then I’ll squint at you, ⟨Sir⟩ With my puff em, &c.
As I strut round the room, I stare in their faces, Then pull down my ruffles all covered with laces; The ladies all giggle while their hearts are a thumping What a sweet fellow's that?—oh, (illegible text) young ’Squire ⟨Lumping⟩ With his puff em, &c.
I walk out of the room, and sometimes I stay in it. ​As us great folks can’t make up our minds in a minnute; We sit down to cards and play at bonswaber,
We hand round the wine and drink haber naber, With our puff em, &c,
We set round the wine till we're as drunk as buffers, Then we knock down the candle, table, and snuffers; The waiter comes in, we put him in the fire, And then stumble home all cover'd with mire.
With our puff em, strut em stride em, Walk em, run em, ride em, tol.
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# Modern Czech Poetry/A mood

This poem was reprinted from the Anthology of Modern Slavonic Literature in Prose and Verse (1919), see A Mood.
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2. NÁLADA.
Šum žárem umdlený na větve tíhou naleh' a visel bez hnutí, co v teskných intervalech les dýchal přitisklý a potu hořký příval z rozprysklých zelení mu hrubou vůní splýval. Šla bledá únava pod stromy nehybnými, po bok mi usedla, v tvář dechla tušeními, stesk věčné otázky mi v zraky ponořila a řečí mrtvých slov s mou duší hovořila. Květ slunce přezralý do bílých žárů svadal, v šer haluzí se třás' a modrým listím padal v tich apatických němé vysílení, v mechu se rozdoutnal a lázní tajemného dechu mne mdlobou kolébal, jak pod vlnami krev z otevřených žil by tiše řinula mi.
„Svítání na západě“ (1896).
2. A MOOD.
Faint with the heat, a murmur on the calm branches falls, Motionless hanging, while in grievous intervals The forest breathed, oppressed; sap in a bitter tide From the burst herbage let crude-savoured fragrance glide. 'Neath the unmoving trees pale faintness sought a place, Sat by my side and breathed forebodings in my face, Grief of the ceaseless question in my eyes immersed, And with my soul in speech of lifeless words conversed. The sun's o'erripened bloom quivered in glows of white, Quailed in the dusk of boughs and 'mid blue leaves took flight With listless calm's mute wane of strength; in mosses hid lt smouldered, lulling me in weariness amid A bath of mystic breath, as though 'neath wawes l lay, And from my opened veins blood softly oozed away.
“Dawning in the West” (1896).
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# Modern Czech Poetry/April

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4. DUBEN.
Veselé jarní přeháňky a první boží duha nad krajinou! Rozsívku složil hospodář a důvěřivě obchází půdu, do níž sil.
Snad přijdou mrazy. Ale setba svatá se neporuší. Neb zákon jediný jest klíčiti a růst, růst za bouří a nepohody všemu navzdory.
Rozšafní dědové se hřejí u kamen a přemílají starou moudrost, staré zvyky a staré pranostyky.
„Měsíce“ (1914-18).
4. APRIL.
A joyous springtide shower of rain And God's first rainbow o'er the countryside! The sower lays the seed-cloth down And trustfully Paces the soil where he has sown.
Though frosts may come, yet shall the sacred tilth Be never marred. For its one statute is to burgeon and to thrive, To thrive though storm and sleet befall, Defying all.
The worthy grandsires warm them by the chimney-side And ancient wisdom, ancient ways they ponder o'er And ancient weather-lore.
“The Months” (1915—18).
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# Modern Beau/Somebody

SOMEBODY.
WERE I oblig’d to beg my bread, And had not where to lay my head, I’d creep where yonder fl cks do feed, And steal a look at somebody. ​My own dear somebody.
When I’m laid low, and am at rest, And may be number'd with the blest, Then shall thy artless feeling break, Throb with regard for somebody. Ah! will you drop one pitying tear, And sigh for the lost somebody.
But should I ever live to see, That form so much admir'd by me, Then would my constancy reward, And make me blest with somebody. Then shall my tears be dried by thee. And I’ll be blest with somebody.
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# Modern Czech Poetry

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CONTENTS
PAGE
PETR BEZRUČ:
OTAKAR BŘEZINA:
J. S. MACHAR:
ANTONÍN SOVA:
KAREL TOMAN:
JAROSLAV VRCHLICKÝ:
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# Modern Czech Poetry/Adagio

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2. ADAGIO.
Do velké, šedé škeble mramoru, kde místo vody svadlé listí leží, se kloní větve bříz a javorů. Vše v dřímotě, jen mraky nebem běží. Zde chtěl bych státi v zamyšlení dumném a dívat se, jak večer táhne sem, a luňák v letu posupném a šumném jak po kořisti slídí nad lesem; tou sochou chtěl bych býti kamennou, jež o samotě dumá v lesní hloubi, jež s větry mluví jen a ozvěnou, na jejíž skráni s nocí den se snoubí.
„Rok na jihu“ (1878).
2. ADAGIO.
Over the marble with its great drab shell, Where faded leaves in place of water lie, The boughs of birches and of maples fell: All slumbers, save the scudding clouds on high. Fain would I linger here in wistful poring, And gaze at evening drawing nigh this way; And at the hawk's gloom-covered, clamorous soaring, How o'er the wood he watches for his prey; Fain would I be this statue wrought in stone, On loneliness in forest-depths to brood, Speaking with winds and echo all alone, Upon whose brow the night by day is wooed.
“A year in the south” (1878).
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# Modern Czech Poetry/Avar inroad

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3. ZÁJEZD AVARSKÝ.
Vsi hoří vzadu. Nebe černo dýmem. Plamenné proudy z daleka se lijí po zralém obilí a trávě lučin. A z míst těch valí hlučící se mračno avarských lidí. Šikmoocí jezdci se pohupují volně na konících, neb bezpečno je. A jsou spokojeni. Jsou ověšeni kalichy a kříži, relikviáři, svícny, konvicemi, ornáty, plášti, poháry a šatstvem. Krav bučení a mekot koz a ovcí, jež vedeny jsou v středu bojovníků, zní jako libá hudba sluchu jejich. A každý vleče, otočiv si vlasy jak provazy kol kostnaté své ruky, tři, čtyři ženy, jež jsou zcela nahy a zkrváceny, neboť ňadra jejich jsou vesměs kolmou ranou probodána.
„Barbaři“ (1911).
3. AVAR INROAD.
Villages rearward burn. Smoke-black the sky. Torrents of flame pour onward from afar Over the ripened corn and meadow-grass. And from these places rolls a rumbling cloud Of Avar soldiery. The slant-eyed horsemen Sway buoyantly upon their horses, for There is no peril. And they are content, Laden with goblets and with crucifixes, With reliquiaries, candalabra, cruses, With vestments, mantles, flagons and apparel. Lowing of cows and bleat of goats and sheep Which are borne on amid the warriors, Ring out like sweetest music in their ears. And each one drags along, having entwined Tresses like ropes around his bony hand, Three or four women, naked utterly And with their blood bedabbled, for their breasts With a sheer wound are all pierced through and through.
“The Barbarians” (1911).
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# Modern Czech Poetry/As precious stone…

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6. JAK DRAHOKAM.
Věř, pel na křídle motýla, lesk na višni se, duše spanilá tak nepyšní, jak světu já, že sám tě mám a v srdci tebe nosím jak drahokam!
Sto polibků ti posílá má duše v snách, tys do ní rozlila zář, vůni, nach. Teď všecko v světě mám že sám ve svém srdci tebe nosím jak drahokam!
„Eklogy a písně“ (1880).
6. AS PRECIOUS STONE . . .
In sooth, the dust on insects' wings, A shimmering tree, O beauteous soul, ne'er brings Such ecstasy As mine, that thee alone I own And in my heart I bear As precious stone.
A hundred kisses sends to thee My soul in dreams. Thou hast therein shed radiancy, Scent, purple gleams, Now all that in the world I own Is thee alone, Whom in my heart I bear As precious stone.
“Eclogues and Songs” (1880).
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# Modern Czech Poetry/A. Dürer painting the Saviour's head

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7. A. DÜRER MALUJÍCÍ HLAVU SPASITELOVU.
1526.
Já hledám Tebe, zmučený můj Pane, po světě širém — hledám, nenalézám; co člověk tady, tygrem jest či hadem, vždy jedním z zvěře, kterou ďábel pase.
7. A. DÜRER PAINTING THE SAVIOUR'S HEAD.
1526.
Thee do I seek for, O my tortured Lord, Through the wide world, — I seek, but do not find; Tiger-like, serpent-like is man, and aye, One of the brood the devil pastureth,
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A přece — ráčíš sídliti-li v světě — jen duše lidská příbytkem je Tvojím, jak Luther má ji, boží muž a sluha, či Melanchton, ta moudrosti Tvé včela.
Můj Pane zmučený, já nejsem hoden, bys pod střechu mou vešel — — Ty však, Lásko přec vcházíš mile. V chvílích nejkrásnějších já cítím, kterak v komnatě mé duše Ty odpočíváš, okem svým se díváš, mým dechem tiše oddychovat ráčíš —
a proto smím Tvé nejsvětější hlavě své tahy dáti, milostný můj Pane!
„Apoštolové“ (1911).
Yet, deignest Thou to sojourn in the world, Only a human soul is Thine abode, As Luther, man and servitor of God, Or Melanchthon, who is Thy wisdom's bee.
My tortured Lord, I am not worthy that Thou shouldest come beneath my roof. But Thou, O Love, yet graciously approachest. In Most wondrous moments do I feel that Thou Dost take Thine ease amid the chamber of My spirit; with mine eyes Thou gazest. Thou Vouchsafest gently with my breath to breathe.
Wherefore to Thy most hallowed head I dare To give my lineaments, most gracious Lord!
“The Apostles” (1911).
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# McDonald v. Hobson

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United States Supreme Court
48 U.S. 745
McDonald v. Hobson

## Notes

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