The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1873-11-08


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spmh llfbly Hu1 lu0nrndgm oyofg F.
ding lemtnlue 10 MwIco, Ilnt no|
age Win nt ioor-nfy Ia rotooi ionn' /
NJ tLo cbron.o misrmtohcuaIonf lnfo- |
pnfd ~ lhul lohgstfugNlnp cofnIfy'
cwondcrn1 achievements ~ thcl
nicnds pf constitutional government
.luoo me uu struggle begun about
forty sears apo, go rornuu4ht"illi Mp
pant and superficial wrItcre wllo write
ior the prr.pnl moment, without delv-
Ing into the rcN lessons Of hord.cmnrd
NcXican experience. The lulh II,
ihat since the lrN cry was raised for
those forms without which liberty was
impossible, hy Valentine Gomez FarIas,
in 1899, the followers Of that sterling
old Democratic republican have main
tanned the struggle against abuses, mo-
nopollcs, privileged orders ndtyranny
In every form, with fidelity unsllr-
passed by amy people similarly situated
in ancient or modern times They
have risen from defeat after defeat, and
through seas of blood, steadily, at the
decade gaining strength. lb'ir BAN
ner has been inscribed with liberty OF
speech, trial by jury, an elective
Republican government, an inderend-
ent judiciary, separation of church and
State, freedom of religion and the edu-
cation of the people. They stand to-
day, feeble and bleeding with wounds,
but IN possession of the government,
with most of their cherished funda-
mental principles embodied in their
constitution, and education steadily
spreading over the country, freedom
of religion guaranteed, and the power
of the old despotism so long upheld by
Santa Anna. Bustamente Paroles and
the friends of monarchy broken to
atoms.
Among its achievements is the great
railway, for two hundred and seventy
miles from Vera Cruz on the sea to the
city of Mexico, in full operation
months past, with branch thirty
miles to the great city of Puebla. This
road is unsurpassed in the grandeur of
its achievements by any in the world.
Look at its elevations above the sea
level at Vera Cruz:
per So, del M"eho' g miles, feet'.. 9, ,5is
| Orizaba ~ "'''''' IN ~
| Valley of Mallrnta III +" " o,Ii1
Boca del Monte III I" :" ,..";,.. S0ss
Acocotlnn (highest poln on table land), SSSa
City OF Mexico 2T miles feet...".."" 1,U0
From Maltrata, by windings around
barrancas and mountain spurs, to
Boca del Mounte, the ascent is two
hundred and twelve feet per mile for
thirteen continuous miles, this being
at the secondary base of eternal snow
OH the peak of Orizaba, where blanket
coats are worn every day in the year.
Boca del Monte is the lowest point on
the main Sierra Madre mountain, i'll
that region, the range there being
locally called the Cumbres.
With such record, made against
such odds, in the short space of forty
years-a people stepped in ignorance
the main reliance of a few brave and
enlightened patriots in the beginning,
/ we often think that if our people
understood Mexican affairs better, they
would be more charitable. We, OF
course, refer to the great interior OF
Mexico-not to its rude border pOpula-
tion-a different people altogether from
the descendants of the Aztecs.
OUR three principal streets, since be-
ing dug down, filled, ETC., are now beds
of mud. We have been unable to see
the wisdom of cutting down streets on
gentle unduIations, as, for instance,
opposite the residence of W. w. Peak,
on Elm street. The rise there was gen.
tie and easy of drainage, and even
more so farther East. This digging
down process, leaving private grounds
much higher than the streets, certainly
invites the water into the thorough
fares, and the result is mud. We
are not engineers, but common sense
sees this defect at once. AS they now
are, our chief streets in wet weather
will be worse than nature made them,
and SO remain until graveled.
| STRANGERS visiting Dallas, while
admiring the natural location and the
unprecedented growth of the place,
complain greatly and justly at the
narrowness Gnd irregularity Of our
streets. This was forseen before the
rapid giowth of the town began last
year, and earnest efforts were made to
induce propertyrhal9ers to provide for
wide streets through their acres OF
land. But all in vail. /; and now, for all
time to come, one of the prettiest
town-sites in the South, and one des-
tined to he one of the largest, is TO be
cursed with the bitter fruit Of this
short-sighted policy. Thirty, forty nor
fifty feet is not worthy to be called
street in a commercial town. 1t is a
mere lane or alley, Pity it is so. Wide
streets would have made more money
for the mistaken proprietors,
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