The weekly Arizona miner., 1872-02-24
MEXICO.

! We are indebted to Don Carlos Velssco, O
 Tucson, for copy of the Ures, (sonora) Esrella containing letter by him, addressed
 to the editor of the Arizona MINER, com
 menting on an article which appeared 'h ou'
 issue of December 23d, last, under the cap
 ton of Mexico.' The article IS thorousn''
 Mexican in style, and therefore very ciiarac
 ter;stic of its author whom the writer nap pens to know personally '''endisg o' co''' i nl,;nt and bravado favored by whine anc
 nainted with the usual Mexican braggadocio We know Mexican character too well to be
 lieye that anything we can say in one or two
 columns of the MINER will serve to eradicat, the absurd prcjudices which pervadc the clas of his countrymen to which Don yelascO be longs; but as lie happens to be man of ar dinary (Mexican) understanding, we vii give him another picture of Mexico as it is which will vindicatc the various statement' qoted in the Est,ella concerning the "bellig erent bybrids" and "blanketed thieves" wh' infest this frontier; we intend, moreover, tc regale the understanding of the indignant and somewhat abusive gentleman of Tucson by a few facts concerning Mexico, which are not taught in the coleyes(D of that country If we have failed to appreciate Mexican character, generally, at the standard of excel lence set forth by Don Velasco, it is because we have been forced to observe too much to the contrary. We have observed that that country, for which Nature has done so much, is, through the character of its inhabitants, bankrupt in honor, law, commerce and cash :; a great, or the greatest, specie producer m the world, yet retains none; magnificent climate and soil, yet imports most of the neccssaries of ife-even breadstufs produc- CT of cotton and wool, yet manufactures hard ly any class of fabric and must therefore i'm port manufactured goods with mines or iron, yet cannot manufacture a mouse-trp eternaly at war against itself, yet cannot a musket or percussion cap; copper mines, yet cannot coin copper money that will pass outside the State that makes it; silver mines, yet unable to retain, for two years from the date ofits coinage, a single one of its badly manufactured dollars; gold in abundance, yet, generally speaking, no gold in circulation commerce rapping, in vain, at its eastern and western doors, whilst the country is perishing of want of home industry as the basis of commerce-in short, a nation bankrupt, ruined, overrun by citizen bandits and cursed with perpetual civil war, yet ca pablo of producing, with an Anglo-Saxon or Teutonic population, all the necessares, con- forts and luxurics of life, in abundance. A people too who obtained our moral support and aid, out of consideration for its weakness when foreign Prince was placed at the head loose its citizen bantitti to devastate our frontier settlements.
 These are some of the reasons which vindi cate any statement which has ever appeared in these columns under this head, and if it were necessary to adduce further argument we need but refer to the people aside from all clse-so utterly lost so antedeluvian in every respect-living in the sunshine of to- day while animated by the showers of the Tenth century. But this people is incorri- gible. The JUrro will halt and bray even when the spear is in his side, just as those hybrid hVoS de Moctezuma ? q didWo gave their celebrated toast, We have driven out the Spaniards; the Yankees left because they saw our power and were afraid, and we have kindly permitted the French to embark without molestation: rira Mq'ico sus hyos -somes muy ralieRies'"
 We look upon these facts, which portray in the average Mexican citizen SO much of worthlessness, ignorance and vanity, and speculate on the probability of his reformation with feeling that we might experience, if gazing upon greased elephant which we had been commanded to swallow. There is no hope: civilization can do nothing with a people so ignorant of all modern science and improvement and yet 60 lawless and so vain.