The daily gazette., 1877-12-18
! From the N. Y. Herald.
| STRONG EFFORTS TO BREE
TROUBLE WITH MEXICO.

From the N. Y. Herald.
STRONG EFFORTS TO BREED
TROUBLE WITH MEXICO.
If any simple people have doubted
heretofore that a set ofresol1te 1ntrlguers
is bent on getting up Mexican WAT tne
scales must fall from their eyes with the
prompt use which has been made OF Lne
local dIstur bance at San Elizario. Inc
unscrupulous plotters who have en-
barked in this enterprise count largely
on the ignorance and gullibilty OF tne
American public, for it is not posslple
that they should succeed in dup1ng any
body who is acquainted with the geogra-
ply of the Rio Grande. If our people
knew as much of our Southern as they
do of our Northern frontier the abettors
and accomplices of spectators in Mexi-
can mines would not venture on these
bold experiments upon popular ignor-
| ance. Macaulay once satinzed the dense
ignorance of Eastern geography which
prevailed in his own country by repre-
senting an EnglIshman who fancied all
the people of India to be next door
neighb bors as inquiring of person who
had lust returned from Bombay after the
health of friends in Calcutta, which Is
more than thousand miles distant IN a
straight line and at least fifteen hundred
in the usual course of a voyage. In like
manner many of our people regard all
troubles on the Rio Grande as occurring
In the same eighborhOod, not consider
ling that that great river is two thousand
miles in length, and that it Is fourteen
hundred miles from its mouth to San
Elizario, where this local squabble over
a salt pond Is in progress.
No illustration taken from our North
ern frontier can quite do justice to the
absurdity of representing this salt ponu
lsquabble as part and parcel of the irrlta-
tions growing out of the cattle raids on
Lower Rio Grande. Some ten or twelve
years ago there was a Fenian raid into
Canada across the st. Lawrence. Ii
: Fenian raids had become chronic, like
the Mexican cattle raids, and continued
: to this time, we presume nobody out or
lunatic asylum would think o represent
, ing the escape of Sitting Bull into the
western territory of the Dominion as part
and parcel of the Fenian disturbances on
the st. Lawrence. But the connexlon
would be as close as the fantastic one at
: tempted to be imposed on the American
5 public between the cattle raids on the
lower lRio Grande and the mutlny III
, favor of free salt in far-off region near
/ the southern boundary of New Mexico.
= | The riot over that salt pond in El Paso
, county, Texas,Ah no more connection
with the cattle raids in another part OF
Texas than the cigarmakers' strike IL
j | New York has with the Russo-Turkish
n war. 1t will not quite do to reason about
Texas as Macaulay's stupid EngnsnlneH
O did about India. Texas is more thar
/ five times as large as the State of New
= York. From Montauk Point to NiagrS
Falls is something of distance, but 1t is
}: short in comparison with the Longest
L diameter of Texas. But one might i'm
}, agine from the representations of the
|, crazy abettors of Mexican war that th'
: Mexican town of Matamoros and th'
Il Mexican town Ell Paso, both on the righ
: bank of the Rio Granee, are near neigh
J, bors, whereas, in fact, they are fourteen
u hundred miles apart.