The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-12-19
The News from nexico-TAe Inevitable su.

The News from nsxico-TAe Inevitable ru.
ture.
Our accounts from Mexico represent the
state OF the nation as growing gradually, but
obviously, more p.ecarious from day to day.
Alvarez is surrounded, it appears, by the most
worthless citizens of the republic, worn out
politicians, needy adventurers, wild theo.
rists, all of whom seem to have made up their
minds that he shall not be allowed to establish
Oh honest and stable government. Faithful to
their traditional policy, the foreign ambassa.
doris are actively at work endeavoring to COM
plicate the embarrassments Of the adminstra.
ton. What they can possibly gain by doing
go, no man can say; but they intrigued il
Texas, and have intrigued in Mexico for twen-
ty year 9, and they will, in all probability, con-
tiDue to intrigue so long as Mexico remaios 10
her present condition. Against these multi
piled assaults from treacherous friends on one
side, and cunning foreigners on the other, the
government of Alvarez sustains itself with
difficulty. All the American experience Of the
leaders of his party seems Of no avail. Foreign
precedents are either unsuitable or forgotten
and whether it is that something more than an
excellent system-a first class man to work it
QUITS needed for the emergency, or whether
the case of Mexico is wholly beyond the skill
of the native doctors, certain it appears that
the work of reconstruction is by no meaos
| even solidly commenced, and may after all be
abandoned to other hands than the destroyers
| Of Santa Anna.
Should this be the case, Mexico would I'M
dergo her thirteenth general revolution within
| thirty-fve years. She would have gone through
every known form Of government-wouldh have
been an empire, federative republic, State
under despotic dictator, democratic repub-
lie, theOcracy-and would at last find her
self in the position from whence she started,
without having gained or learnt anything
from her troubles. In the course of the past
quarter of q century, her exports to this coun.
| try have declined from five millions to one aad
half. The produce of her mines has fallen
from twenty-four millions under the old colo
NAL government to something like fifteen at
the present day. Though the land Is as suita-
| bic for the sugar cane Us any on the island of
Cuba, from being large sugar exporting
country Mexico is now unable to supply her
O"A hoAAC Ncmobu IVA VIC al tiSAOs <AisC1 nav
ing given chocolate to the world, she now
buys it of Guatemala. While all other nations
of any growth double their Industrial produc-
tiveness in very few years, the manufac-
lures of Mexico have only increased some
thirty per cent in forty years While the
United States are buying up their debt at
twenty per cent premium, Mexico, grinding her
people to the earth with taxes, can only raise
revenue equal to sixty per cent of her annu-
al expenditure.
With territory equal in miles to one half
the organized States Of this Union, it has
population less than third of that of those
States. This, with climate far more tempt
ing, with all the advantages of prior occupa-
ton, and prior natural development. More
over, of the eight millions to use round num-
bers- of people who inhabit Mexico, two-thirds,
and perhaps more, belong to those unhappy
mopgrel breeds which rank on level with the
negro as agents. of civilization. Endowed
with most of the vices of the Spanish and
Indian and Creole races from which they
spring, and unblessed with any of their vir-
tues, these half five millions of
them and more-are only useful when they
sink into the position of hewers of wood and
drawers Of water under the control of men of
higher organizations The Mexicans cannot
rule them, for they lack the energy, and they
are too near of kin, besides; but under the |
strong hand of the Anglo Saxon, these five |
million of membranes might be made valua- |
BILE instruments Of progress.
This-like every other view Of Mexican |
affairs-cannot be pursued for any length |
without suggesting the probable advent OF |
Anglo-Saxonism in that country. Recent &C.
currences have shortened the Mexican rule, |
and FASTENED the march of time. Mexico will |
soon be pressed between AngloSaxons on both !
sides. They Of the south will press upward |
as vehemcntly as they Of the north seek to de- |
scend; between the two, Mexico, if it seek to |
preserve its nationality, must find some bull |
wark made Of stronger stuff than the govern |
ments which have succeeded each other dozen |
times within the past thirty years.
TIE PRESIDENT AND His MEssAGE-A MAR
ROW EsCAPE-PRINTERs IN THE WHITE House.
We are informed that the President has had