The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-06-28

decision on the constutonality OF tho section on
tho tax levy relating the transfer OF the licensing
power 1t is positively ascertaned, will not be rendered
by the Court OF Appeals during the present term
Mexico and the Indians-Two Moro 'sTwin
Relics" for tho Next New Party.
There are two nuisances on this continent
which it is time we should abate, both in respect
to our material interests and in the discharge
of the moral obligations Of civilized people.
1t was once prescribed as a remedy against the
Indians that they should be wiped out It
seems likely that this prescription must become
a policy, and it is in no way probable that the
continent will be at rest until something very
nearly like the same rule is applied to the Mex.
leans as they now are. Mexicans and Indians
not taxed are the ogres Of the hour; and the
party that shall come before the country with
the abatement Of the Mexican nuisance and the
Indian nuisance as the main points of its plat
form; that shall promise immunity to our
prairie railway enterprises and security to
settlers, with the show of keeping its promises,
and that shall also guarantee the good conduct
OF our mongrel neighbors- . party will
have better claim to the support of the Amer
lean people than had the republican party, with
the twin relics of barbarism.
Mexico is to-day just where she was in 1868,
when, even under the presidency of the slow
and careful Buchanan, the propriety Of estab-
fishing forcible protectorate was weighed by
the country and proposed in the Executive
mi N An rcbr tIoc
was supreme; but even then, though of course
no interest OF an American citizen was safer
than any other interest within Mexico, no such
act was committed as the recent seizure of
passenger from the deck of an American ship.
Interference in Mexican affairs was based then
upon the broad grounds of International neces-
sity. twas argued that the nation was simply
prey to its disorderly elements, and that
having In its public conduct passed that line
within which regard to the rights of others
should have kept it, it must be restrained for
the sake Of public peace. Violent sectional
dissensions within our own border and the war
put an end to all that, and European Powers
came forward, headed by France, and inter-
fered practically, pretending the same motives
that urged our government, but actuated GER
tainly by very different ones. Our freely ex-
pressed hostility to that interference, arising
from want Of faith in its purposes made ii inefec-
tive, and its REIMBURSEMENT and the failure of
the empire that it attempted to establish leave
Mexico where she was, with, perhaps, the addi-
ton to her troubles Of further decentralization
Of her people the natural consequence OF war
where the masses are depraved and without the
tone and elasticity Of high moral character.
II is doubtful whether the common struggle
against imp rialism has given her any more
than temporary unity. Her people are ready
once again to fall into parties whose differences
can be settled by nothing less than mutual
butchery; and as we are involved in these
struggles morally and materially-as they
trench upon our rights no less than upon the
sovereignty ofall law-we mus. debate seriously
the necessity of taking up the Mexican question
once more, just where the breaking out Of our
civil war compelled us to leave it.
There is less difficulty in the case with the
Indians; for, compared with Mexicans even
the worst Indians Of the plains have . moral
character, and some respect for obligations
once solemnly taken. Indians are the superior
race for in Mexico the mscegenation Of In
dian and Spaniard has resulted in the produc-
ton Of mass Of mongrel wretches having the
vices Of both races with the virtues Of neither.
With the Indian we know what to count upon,
and we need not be cruel II we are firm. We
had TO expect Indian troubles at this time,
and could and should have provided against
them. The last great advancing wave of civil
ization has filed the red man with natural
alarm, and war is his only means OF protesting
against further encroachment. He is fighting
now, not the corruption Of Indian agents, but
the Pacific Railroad, and we must deal with
him as one Of the necessities for the construc-
ton Of that road. All this will be easy when
the question comes out of the pigeon holes and
jobbery Of departments and bureaus, and is
treated directly by the people. II is time this
was DONE These questions Of Mexico and the
Indians have become of such national i'm
portance that they must take their place in the
political issues Of the day and be settled by