The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-12

violence in Cuba that changed con-
dition Of affairs is hardly deemed de
sirable. We used to draw ninety mil
lions OF sugar, molasses, fruits and |
cigars from the island. While Lerdo |
and his predecessor maintained order
in Mexico, our losses in Cuba were sup
piled by the industry of the South
western republic. At length we find
Mexico as helpless and useless as Cuba,
and the annual deficit in the foreign
trade, especially of Charleston, Savan-
nah, Mobile, New Orleans and Calves
ton, must be enormous. The calamity
is progressive and cumulative. Dis
asters that befall the two HIspano-
American countries render the condI-
ton Of each more and more deplorabie
at the close of each year, and our
losses are constantly augmented. The
restoration of order and peace in Tux
pan and Vera Cruz and in the coffee
and sugar growing districts Of Mckee! !.'
Louis as the expulsion of Packard and
the reign of decency and law in Louis
lana. Every citizen of the United
States, and Of the South especially, is
taxed heavily to sustain incapable
governments and revolutionary leaders
in Cuba and in Mexico. If we were
not profoundly interested as republi-
cans and philanthropists in the repro
duction OF order and law in these un
happy counties, the very burdens I'M
posed upon US by Mexican anarchy be-
come iutolerable, and there Is no rea-
son why we may not transfer model
returning board or electoral commits
sion, even with the consent OF our
bronzed nelghbors, to the ancient city
OF the Aztecs. The electoral com
mission served the South so fortu-
nately, when it least intended,
that the Mexicans may be the
more inclined to assent to oul
interposition. We cannot doubt, not
only that our excellent "God and Lib
erty"-loving neighbors will assent tc
the adjustment of Diaz's and Lerdo''
and Iglesias's and the fifty other pro
nunciados claims, by Judge Bradle!
and the rest, but that the revenue o
five first class Mexican custom house
and a percentage from each of the east
ern silver mines will be devoted to tn
construction of the railway from Lare-
do or Eagle Pass to the Mexican CAPT,
tai. 1t thus occurs to us, IN the pres
ent temper OF the public mind, whel
Mexico is rent and impoverished b.
warriLg factions, that the interpositiol
OF the United States ls not only indis
penAable to our own but to the we'll
being of Mexico. President Hayes, i
seems, is cautious, prudent, thought
full and painstakipg. A strong reason
for haste in adjusting rights and rem
edying wrongs in Louisiana consists Il
the urgent necessity for the arbitri
ment and adjustment of quaIrels an'
this country internal peace Is compare
lively an easy task. Withdraw tn
troops and Nichols and Hampton will
surely do the rest; but in Cuba and il
Mexico the employment of the wises
statecraft is indispensable and in re
producing order and industry in tn
island and on the unhappy mainland
the President has opportunities for tn
exertion of those powers of intellec
which impel history to pronounce tn
first Napoleon the first of statesmen
Therefore it happens that the Presi
dents representative in Mexico mus
needs be, that moral and commercial
and not political or physical annexs
tion may be achieved, the foremost o
American diplomatists. ..
II the victories of peace be grande
and more benelicent than those effecte'
by war, the railway should supplan
the army IN the transformation of Mex
ico. The conquest it effects is tina
which the President conceives to b.
alone desirable in these Southern com
nnonwealths. Chains and garrison
avail nothing save the perpetuation o
terrible and vengeful enmities, Will
industry, in the baleful shadow of bay
onets, stands listless or paralyzed. w
would have nothing that Mexican
have or claim. Their government an,
chief magistrate should be of their ow
choosing, and territorial integrity uu
impaired. We only demand, sine
their proximity and internal disorder
are Us ruinous to Us as to themselves
that tn " shall have peace. An Amer
ican railway and the concurrent inva
sion of American ideas and preference
for electoral commissions to electoru
battles and campaigns-these are tn
sure agencies for that conquest" o
Mexico which the President woul,
achieve, adding one hundred million
annually to the trade OF Southern sea
ports alone. Why may not Tom Scot
and Huntington, seeking, as they do
only tn serve Texas and the South, anC
30 nselishly, propose the extension o
the ter ational Railway from Austil
to MaL.lian, and OF the Missouri, Kaa
sas and Texas to Austin3 This accom-
plished, there would be an air line rail
way from the city Of New York an
from Chicago to the nearest poss'bl
point on the Pacific coast, and to thu
point on the Pacific to which each vel
eel from Canton and Nsngasah
forced by trade winds when it sal
from Asia TO San Francisco. The pre-
ent sailing distance between New for
and Canton would be lessened on
thousand aud railway distance five huI
dre1 males; Mexico would be finall
paci6ed; Texas, and the coast cities {
Texas aud the South, would be meal
cnlably aggrandized, and Hayes G
out OF office, having freed aud enriche
the South and regenerated Mexico, u
greatest benefactor the continent h'