The daily union., 1852-12-28
Prom tbs Economist, Tan English journai.)
The Condition Of Mexico.

Prom tbs Economist, Tan Essiish jouInai)
The Condition Of Mexico.
Ii is nov some months since the government print,
assured us that Lord Malnesbury aud the ministry OF
Louis Napoleon had undertaken is arrange and compose
The internal disorders OF the republic OF Mexico Wheh
they made any such foolish attempt il, we think
very doubtful ii they did, has resulted IN confusion
worse confounded, for Mexico 10 In plight of sestel
disorder than lis frontier provinces are ravagcd
BY the savage Indians the Stale Of Guadalupe has pro-
claimed lis independence; in Vera Cruz there has been
nsurTection; in every province there s dsaneciion
the general government shown BY revolutionary move
mens in hs capital Congress is mPeachlnE two ol the
ministers, whilst the cklish affair OF the Iehaantepec
grant is still unsettled giving the American President
Pierce ground OF quarrel France Is insisting on
the immediate payment OF French CREDITORS and an m
slant satisfaction for the incarceIaon OF French SUD
cc and dishonest Spain threatening TO collect
by force OF its debts in its old colonial possessions
The central government is paralyzed, and the local ad-
minslratons disobeden and rebeious: Everything,
In short indicates another revolution TO be Impending
over Mexico without, however,, there being any indca-
ton OF Mexico possessing single individual capable OF
rendering his country any official help IN this hew-and
perhaps last--crsis OF its history.
The present condition OF Mexico is federal one; for
like other Spanish American countries, Mexico has al
ernaed between federalism and contamination IN lis re-
publican Until il has become effort OF Inef
ory TO fecoec which form 10 uppermost Nor is IL OF
great consequence II we do oge for neither form has
given trapquiy ORDER and prosperity to the country II
paper constitutions that Mexico has suffered fo,
but the want OF capable of goyerning and the alb
sence OF a people who will be governed. Long and sad
experience at last suggesting the painful truth that in
the varied popu OF Mexico there few elements
of independent national existence. Yet Mexico, placed
midway between the North and South American cont.
nents lying too. between the Atlantic and Pacific, with
but 500 miles traverse, and connecting Europe with
Asia, cannot be allowed TO become desert wilder
ness. II constitutes too important geographical link in
the material interests OF the world to be neglected in
these days when steam aims al gaining the easiest transit
to The East It's climate invites coonization-s soil
invites cutvationlts position invites intercommunCa
on. What Nature intended for paradise must not be
allowed to sink Into slough OF despondency
In examining the present condition OF Mexico, the first
thing TO be looked al Is lis population This amounts TO
nearly eight millions--a formidable number even when
spread oyer great surface as nearly 100000 square
miles But the importance OF population IN South
American countries does not, hewever, depend on its
numbers, bat rather it's and character. Descend
ing, them from figures TO detals.we find the popu
atlon of Mexico thus composed 1854 ,6S6 Indians
l65, ,345 MesZos, Zambos &c; $500 negroes; and =
100000 whites The value of the aggregate population
dimnishes rapidly before this view OF its composition
for Of the whole amount find that the chief elements
of nationality constitute only seventh part.
Sl even that proportion, if educated, intelligent,
ageous, vlrtuous, and entepnsing, might accomplish
much--perhaps everyhing-in the presence OF the gen.
era debasemsnt of the other classes But here again
stcs discourage hope; Tor OF the enlre population oil
1925 $751; those who read and write are s7229 In
dans and o53 069 whites and mixed classes, two per
cent OF the Indians and twenty cent OF the other
classes--proporions which place such intelligence as
Mexican reading and writing involve at fearful
disadvantage against 1871 human beings remaining
in ignorance the most absolute
OF the educated portion by far the greater part
tive Mexicans or Creoles and such education as they
possess rendered little beneficial possible by their
nurture, their habits and their institutions No thought
full parents their nfancyno vrtuous, happy homes
store their youthful minds with sound principles-no
early se-reslrain teaches them habits OF order or
obedience. They grow up indoent and vcious--easy,
seindulgent, voluptuous--ibe universal practice OF
gambling renders them thoughtlessly mprovdent and
iaialist in their notions blind reliance chance dis
ngushes their private, and general dependence others
their public, life Both Stale and church inicrpose 10
complete their decentralization. The drum and the bell
are the tive curses of Mexico; for the army and the
church are in reality its eeemosynary institutions To
get into the other merely OF living and
having the wheewthal TO enjoy life 10 the great object
OF far the greater part OF the educated classes and the
conseq uences 10 the country most disastrous By
OF the army revolutions, insunectons and pro-
nuncamentos constantly recurrng and by means OF
the church the people are confirmed IN debasement.
With commerce rapidly declining, revenue falling of
OF small vans properly the pub
lie expenditure OF Mexico is not lessened Though grad
uaiy being stripped OF province after province by the
powerful after the fashion that gourmands
the cost OF the Mexican government not
duced According TO the particulars lately furnished b.
American dipomatist the
expenditure s3, ,765 AZ
income e,9"n
De6eit. s.a25 "a
Add Interest on debt eseo $3
Total yearly dehcit. H2l375
financial state OF things almost unparalleled in the EN-
barrassments and insovencies OF nations
revels in wealth. II is an exclusive church il admits
no rival. for by the constitution OF is47 il is de
clared "The religion OF the Mexican nation is, ant
will be perpetuay, the Catholic Apostolic and Ro
man. The nation protects il By wise and Just laws
and prohibits the exercise of any other And b,
its intolerance IT repes all useful immigration 10
who would settle where his faith prescribed Scat
tered over Mexico there is ecclesiastical organiza
ton OF nearly 900 persons dividing amongst them grea
riches; possessed OF of plate jewels and COLDER
orname ns and in the absence OF bankers, acting thu
great money LEADERS Of the county Its clergy with
the humber classes they also without refinement o.
cultivated habits, and the balefuI influence exercised
over society otherwise demoralzed by debased
degraded hut powerful clergy completes the misery o
the republic. and extingushes almost every hope
Were great 10 arise iD Mexico 1t is the church
he would first deal with and first, too, with its wealth
Far" says vael "from The goods Of the chptch bens
exempted because they consecrated to God s TO
that very they should be frs, taken for the welfare
Of the State There nothing more agreeable TO ibs
common father OF than to protect nations from de
strucon As God has need OF property, the consecra
ton OF goods Him is their devotion to such purposes
are pleasant TO Him Besides the property OF the church
by the confession OF the clergy themselves chiefly des
tined for the poor and, when the State 10 in want IL il
doubtless the first pauper, and the wohiest OF succor
After the Bourbon restoration OF 1878. II was TIM
principle the Christian king OF France acted for hs
sold the forests OF the French clergy enable him to de
fray the expense OF the army OF occupation So, TOO. u
even later days. has the most Catholic government o
Spain acted; for il sso seized the property OF ths
Spanish church 10 avert the rum OF The Spanish State
Here then in countries equally Catholic, and IN our owr
tnes Mexico has examples 10 justify similar proce
dure for the common benefit Such the general cond
ton o Mexico and that taken into account need
be surprised BY the events that cannot long be avercd
that republic
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