The union Democrat., 1867-11-02


proxinated to tha: of the United States. and
at the beginning of the civil war largely pre-.
dominated In the sum total of its productions
As has been said, the negroes on the coast
region were duly protected by their masters.
in part from kindness, but still more. possi.
hiya from -seif.lnterest, for cruelty Injured
then property invested in the service of these
negroes. The great landed proprietors had
not such an imperative motive as this in their
treatment of theIndian. but they were closely
watched over by the Spanish Government.
and still more carefully and even tenderly by
the church.
The hybrid population of the cities were
generally ranked with the white creole pop.
| ulation, and if not so ,usefully EMPLOYED. or
sosyirtuous and happy as the Indian and ne.
| gro, 1t was because this was an abnormal
element, and must pay the penalty of the
tather sins, and no government can render
II happy or prosperous. Nevertheless. it was
restrained and rendered peaceable nuder the
despotc rule OF the viceroys, and Mexico. at
the beginning of the civil war, was peaceful
and proserous, and while equal in numbers.
vastly surpassed the then United States in
wealth aud annual production.
In 1922, lturbde closed the civil war.
though Spain did not recognize the 4" New
ambitious for himself and family as patriotic
for his country. called together national
assembly of notables, who elected him En-.
peror, and surrounded with the symbols and
pomp of the old Spanish regime, and vic
| torious army to DO his bidding. was seeming
ly accepted by the country and the monarchy
made hereditary in his family This, how
ever, lasted only two years Victoria. the
old patriot leader, had retired to the noun
tains and dehed the Emperor, and at the end
OF two years, Santa Anna and others in com.
mand of important garrisons. pronounced"
against the Empire, recalled Victoria, and
another assembly of notables met together,
abolished the Empire esta blished the Omitted
States of Mexico, and elected Victoria ms
the first President OF the young republic, in
1924. They virtually if not literally adopted
the Constitution of the United States of
America" F." and the republic went into opera.
tlon nnder circumstances vastly more desira.
Bile and hopeful than did our own in 1888.
Not only this, but in wealth, population, an
nual product, commerce, climate, fertility of
the soil, and above all. in the number and
richness of their gold and silver mines, as
we'll as the extent of their territory, the peo.
pie Of Mexico were apparently greatly supe-
rioI to those Of the United States. But fortv
years later, in 1860, the United States had
trebled it's population, more than doubled its
territories, became the second commercial
power of the world, with an annual product
ion ffty-fold greater than tha: of Mexico,
with no national debt, without the shedding
of one drop of blood in civil war, or single
conviction for treason against the republic
And during these same forty wears. Mexico
became diminished in population, lost half of
r. q 70 rl,y
production, contracted an enormous public
debt with constant civil war from the dav
the republic was founded. and finally, after
dTenching that fair land in the blood of its
people, there was such universal and hope
less anarchy, that the nations of Europe com
blned together 70 save the country from utter
ruin.
Such have been the results worked ont in
forty years in the neighboring Republics
one. the most complete and indeed unparal.
!eled success the world ever saw, and the 9TH
er the most terrible failure ever witnessed in
history. They had the same institutions, vr-
tualiy the same Constitution. both republics
Of /" United States" one of America and the
other OF Mexico, and were contiguous in ter
ritory, and yet we witness the wonderful re.
suit they started even in 1924, and in 1860
oae had become flrst-class power, and the
other so decayed. lost. and utterly hopeless,
that the civilized powers of the old world in.
;ervened to save society itself from absolute
dissolution. What is the cause or can.es of
these wonderful results worked out in the two
great republics Of this continent within the
brief space Of forty years? OF course there
are numerous solutions, or farcied solutions
of this phenomenon? The smirking, self
satisfied monarchist CT Europe says it is the
inb foi & IL.
has ruined Mexico totally unconscious of its
necessary virtue and benefcence in our case
The higoted protestant or puritan rather, de.
clares that it is owing to the vices and wealth
of the church, though we see Catholics as vir.
tuous other citizens among ourselves, and
however despotic may be the tendency of
wealth. 1t never tends to anarchy. the prom
lnent feature in Mexico. The ignorant be-
lever in Angle -Saxonism says it is because
the "Spanish race - is incapable of liberty,
though Of the nine millions of Mexicans. there
was barely million of that supposed Span
ish race-that is, of pure white blood, or un-
mixed descendants Of Spanish conquerors
Finally, the most plausible of all declare that
the caamities of Mexico ere the result of ad
mixture of blood and the vast mongrel popu-
lations Of the cities, which are anarchic, dis
turblng and revolutionary from the necessi.
ties of their organization. This is true enough,
IN certain sense. but utterly untrue as it is
ordinarily accepted. The hybrid or mongrel
population is the element that is most involv-
ed in the anti-socal end anarchical move
ments shat take place in Mexico, but the cause
OF all this lies quite beyond that element it.
self. and, as under the riceroys, it might be
rendered peaceable and harmless, if not use
tul and prosperous. The cause. the sole pri.
NAL aud dominating cause, of the calamities
OF Mexico, and of all Spanish America. is
tpolltlcal) mongrelism, common citizenship,
the attempt of human creatures to ignore the
WORK OF the Almighty Creator, and force diff
terent species Of men to submit to the same
rules and regulations. or, rs our own madmen
say, to "enjoy impartial freedom" This is
the sole original cause of the failure of the
Spanish American republics. and that cause
Is fully commensurate with the results or con.
sequences that have flowa from it, The hu-
man creation, like all the groups of fam lies
OF beings. is composed of certain number of
species. There is no such thing as n single
species in the tout ensemble of animated exis.