The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-04-30

TO tho Editor OF Tie Dallas Heraldi

Pile Of Texas, From the mouth ofRl,
drande, IN latitude % 8O' 10 laiitud
32 north, seven aud half degrees
$50 miles due north aud south, but II
fact covering a river boundary of lulb
u thousand miles, Texas is separate,
rom Mexico by river fordable crdl
narlly at least every ten miles.
The coterminous portions Of the Coun
tries are similar In soil, climate, pro
duoti0n and pursuits. The interest o
each demands mutual peace, conf
dence and friendly intercourse,
But, from the events OF history sine,
tho Texas Revolution began In 1885
down to the present time, covering
ten years Of war ON the part OF Mexico
with Texas and two years with th,
United States, IL Is easy TO see how
prejudice and pre-conCeption war;
American Judgment IN regard 10 ev,
orything pertaining to the Mexican
people rs n nation. With one grand
shrug Of the shoulders the superficial
American writer of to-day casts into
outer darkness the MeXioans Ms a PEG,
pie, because the country has been u
land of revolutions aud internecinp
strife. The vices only OF that country,
for forty years, have been emblazonod
before our people, with scarcely gem
tie word for It's heroes and patriots. As
the second grand republic In the new
world IL deserves better fate.
True, what have TO say may never
be seen or heard beyond the limited
thousands who read The DALLAS
HERALD. But, being a citizen of BAL.
las, and looking forward to the day
when the Texas and Pacific Railway
will carry w, as on eagles wings, to
the borders OF the three rich Mexican
States of Chihuahua, Durango aud
Sonora, am willing, even IN circum-
scribed limits, TO endeavor to SOW the
seeds Of truth, and to dispell the clouds
of error which envelope almost every
thing in this country in regard to Mex
leo,
Without clrcumlocution, let US 20
back and simply look at the stern
facts of history.
From September, 1871 to September,
1921, that rich and magnificent coun-
try, embracing every variety of eli
mate, from perpetual snow to per
petual spring, teeming with mineral,
agricultural, medicinal and floral
wealth--the healthiest country of the
sea shores in the world was held by
Spain in the most abjeCt slavery that
ever befelI q civilized people. The
Aztecs and kindred people of that
country, far advanced In civilization,
education, agriculture, the arts and
sciences, for centuries before n Span
lard ever sat foot upon its soil, for
three hundred years were held rs
beasts of toll and burthen to enrich
the Spanish crown and ennohle its
favortes. All posts of honor and profit
were monopoliSed by native born Span
iards. The most crushing tributes
levied upon every branch of industry,
and monopOlies were omnipotent
over everything from silver mining
down to a patch of onions or the burn
ing of a mans load Of charcoal IN the
mountains. The Church, corrupted
aud debauched by the multiplied
temptations to plumber, became CO.
partner with the political power In
this accursed war on humanity. 1t
enjoyed crushing "fueros," or fran
chises, on every branch Of industry,
and became tho richest ecclesiastical
body in the world.
Under such a system, at the end OF
three hundred years, with education
denied except for the children OF the
favored few, aud then only under II
debauched church influence, 1t may be
imagined what was the condition of
the great body of the Mexican people
on that blessed and memorable day,
the 10Th of September, 1910, when II
native.born village priest, poor and in
sympathy with his own kith and kin,
raised the banner OF revolution IN the
ancient and beautiful town of Dolores.
The DOR village priests, living on the
scantiest means, were almost univer-
sally patriots, while the high ecclesi-
astics, living as princes in palaces,
were as universally natives of and de-
voices 10 Spain.
A thousand pages could not narrate
all the anguish, all the horrors, al! tbs
cruel executions, all the burnlngs and
desolations, on the one hand, nor n
tenth of all the herOisms, aud glories
of the natives of Mexico, from 1910 till
the triumph of their cause in ISL
eleven years of fire, murder, treachery,
barbarity, pillage, destruction and des-
olation.
Liberty triumphed. Patriotism was
glorifed in the hearts ofseyen millions
of redeemed people.
But the redeemed were grossly igno-
rant. For all previous time they had
been denied intercourse with the outer
world. Sometimes brave Generals III
the army of liberty could not read.
The experiment of selfgovernment
began with such materials. Eleven
years war had exalted the military
bower and the ignorant multitude
looked to military heroes as their
saviors in civil rs in military affairs
A few years experience demonstrated
that military men as civil rulers were
the worst of tyrants. A few far-see,,
ing, enlightened men soon discovered
that with Generals as rulers and the
ancient order of privileged clergy still
protected in their enormous monopo-
lies by a union of Church and State,
there could be no liberty nor progress
for the citizen. They saw that the
children must be educated in an en-
lightened and practical manner before
thew could ever firmly establish free,
progressive, constitutional govern
ment. M ~,
The privileged clergy, with It's
handles wealth, and the army with
immense power, stood in compact ar
rav AGAINST such beneticent iDspira-
tions, The seeds Of these antagonistic
principles, terminated In the. year
| 1s58. in the second election for the
Presidency. =,
From that day to this, much as II
NAV surprise Americans to hear II,
the contest In Mexico, the seed, direct
~ remote. of all the revolutions, has
snr,lng from this grand, NOBLE, under
wing principle of free constitutional
Goyernmention the one handi or, wheh
That mower was in the ascendant, rom
a nnion Of clerico-military tyrants on
'u santa Anna was a conspicuous cham,
n;on IN the side of mOnopolies ana
9esnotism, Manuel Gomez Farlas'
honored be his memory, was the non !,
orable, unwavering and ever-ialti,iul
champion of liberty, on tne o' frea