The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-02-11
HOWTO HAVE BLESSINGS WITHOUT
EVILS OF ANNEXATION = MEXICO
AND TEXAS.

Mexico contains nine millions Of people,
two-thirds dwelling in the central States of
the Republic. It's government, under its
present Executive, is stable, institutions
fixed, the administration Of public affairs
honest, wise and liberal, and every defect
Of system just emerged from revolu-
ton and chaos is rapidly removed. The
evils Of which we complain, the brigand-
age progressive on the frontier, the mis-
deeds Of CoFtin6, and robberies practiced
by adventures from all lands along the
Rio Grande, arc now deemed insuferable
calamities by the Mexican government.
Slowly it gathers about it the forces of law
and order, first recognized in central States
and slowly expanding towards tlA frontier.
Very soon, If President Lerdo accomplish
his aims, Cortinas lawless bands will be ex-
terminated, and that outrages may be finally
checked and violence unknown, this able
statesman proposes to give as liberal
subventions TO the international road
as were conceded TO the imperial highway
from tie city OF Mexico to Vera Cruz
President Lerdo sees plainly that the peace
and integrity of his empire, like that of
the United States, depends upon the crea-
ton Of that unity which railways alone may
beget. Not only the wealth and greatness
of Mexico, but the stability of the Mexican
Republic, depends upon that final peace
along the Rio Grande which no other
agency than railways can assure. 1t is need
less to define advantages accruing to Texas
from causes now slowly but surely operative
fruits and silver abd pt sugar and tropical
teas from Japan and China would over
burden a single track railway connecting
Mazatlan, through San Antonio, with New
York. Texan towns and cities, first to re-
ceivc and buying most cheaply, from this
new source Of ancient riches, would be-
come the choicest abodes of wealth and
rapidly progressive civilization. The Inter
national effects the only desirable ''annexa-
tom and constitutes perpetual bond of In
destructible peace The ballot-box of the
United States needs no further examining"
Neither Mexican nor Cuban States are de-
sirable acquisitions and adjuncts of Anglo
Saxon civilization. Least Of all would the
South have one and half million Cuban ne
groes add aught to the qsantum sg6icit Of un-
utterable filth now injected into the ballot
box. Cuba must needs undergo the same
horrible process OF revolution and anarchy
which Mexico has endured and struggle
through the same transition period. Mean
while Mexico, if the international be built,
takes the commercial place of Cuba. Nine
tanths Of the sugar consumed in the United
States is produced in Cuba. While Cuba
undergoes the terrible process of regenera-
ton which Lerdo crowns with peace
in Mexico, Mexico supplants Cuba,
and, through the intervention of
the international Railroad, supplies the
United States with that 500, 900, 900 of
wealth which Cuba, in 1878, sent into this
country. It is pity shat all Iawgivers are
not statesmen, and that petty local selfish
ness, as practiced in State Legislatures,
often defeats the wisest aims Of patriotism.
There was never palmer, clearer PROPOSE
ton than that the truest friend Of Texas,
and Of all American States, and of pro-
eressive American civilization, is the
siaunchest advocate Of every measure de-
signed to promote the immediate construc-
ton Of the international Railroad.