The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-02-10

Creole element is not favorable to re
public; and submit to it's government
more from ambition to rule it than IRON
any love of its principles. The naestikos
mixed breeds, are the dangerous
classes" ready to serve any leader in
any cause for reward and the privilege
to plunder. Strange as it may seem, the
aboriginal race, known as Indians, are
the truest adherents to the republican,
system. The late distinguished Presi'
dent Juarez, perhaps the best Of Mexi.
can Presidents, was himself OF the pure
Indian blood. And for this reason he
was hated and hunted by the Creole, or
Spanish, element.
This vast Indian population exists
as thirty-fve tribes, each with a differ.
ent dialect; indeed, the mixed forms OF
speech used in Mexico are said to num-
Der no less than one hundred and ilty di-
aIects. This Indian population are no
madic in their habits, quite illlterate,
and some even unciYilized. Con-
sidering, then, all these incongruous ell
ements Of population, and the general
unftness OF the whole for republican
government, we can scarcely be sur
prised at the innumerable outbreaks,
civil connections, aid warlike irrup-
tions, that have given to the Mexican
Republic notoriety in this regard SO
very unenviable. Since her settlement
by the Spaniards, Mexico has passed
through all forms OF Goyernment-the
colonial, the yice-royal, the royal, the
imperial, the dictatorial, and the repub-
lican. And under them all, dissensions
and conVulsions have been almost in
cessant.
Since 1908, when the Spanish Success
sion was at issue, period OF only seven
ty years, Mexico has witnessed no less
than thirty-lour revolutions and civil
wars, besides perhaps as many more
local outbreaks and civil commotions
not altogether national; and all pro-
ceeding from questions and quarrels en-
tirely inherent to her own condition.
The notorious Santa Anna was at five
different times President of the Mexican
for terms longer or shorter;
and every time driven from power by
revolution and violence. OF all the
numerous persons who have held the
Office of President Of Mexico, there has
hIlt II Huh "a
held his place during the full
term for which he was elected. Every
other one has been deposed, exiled, or
assassipated. Nor have the attempts at
thAe ensHerial form of government been
any more fortunate or permanent. Both
Iturblde, in 1924, and Maximillian, in
1864, were driven from their thrones
after but brief and turbulent incum
bency, and both were shot by their
Mexican subjects. And the same care eg
of turbulence and violence is still pur.
sued by the ambitious and restless
chiefs of political parties, to whom the
Republic is nothing but as the goose to
be plucked for the feathering Of their
own nests.
The European occupancy Of Mexico
was quite as early as of any other por
tion of the continent. OF all portions
of the continent, she was most IA
vored in climate, in timber, in cereals,
in textiles, in dyes, in the precious met
ais and in precious stones. Since her
discovery she has added to the WORLDS
wealth of gold and silver to the extent
Of ST. 200, 900, 900; and is by no means ex.
hausted. And now, while we have over
seventy thousand miles of railroad,
Mexico has but three hundred and sixty.
three miles; and all of this, save one
hundred miles, is the road between Vera
Cruz and the City of Mexico, built at
cost OF $27, 900, or about 100000 per
mile, and was twenty years in construc.
ton, from 1852 to 1873. To be sure, a
project has been fostered for building a
road from the Capital, northward to El
Paso, about eight hundred and fifty
miles direct, to our boundary near
the Rio Grande, to connect with the
United States railroad system. Valu-
able as such work would be, more
quiet times must come to that misgov-
erned Republic before Its completion
can even be hoped for.