Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-07-24
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WhGt a Mexican Paper Has to Say of the
United States.
DAILY Aguardiente of Pololtica Mexioo.l
''We purpose giving to our beloved coun-
try constitution and government founded
upon the great principles of the United
States of the North So says the party of
Lerdo.
this famous government, which the gentle
men of the Lerdist party patronizingly hold
up for the admiration of the descendants of
Montezuma and the Conquistadores. The
United States of America are l.ominally a
republic: practically Plutocracy, qualified
by Mobocracy. There money is the lever
which moves the vast machinery of politics,
society, religion itself. Is it not SO? Let us
take glance at their history for the past
thirty years.
Thirty years ago the ''Gringos" of the
model republic began the work of regenerat-
ing Mexico by waging war upon their Re
publican sister, and robbing us of half our
fairest territory. They seized the great
domain of Te1as.-larger than all Spain and
Portugal. land Immediately converted i,
into a land of egro-slavery. They theu
proceeded to fight among themselves about
connecting all the rest of our stolen territory
| into slave States; aud seventeen years ago
the self-governing cifizans of that selfvaunt
ed Gland of the Free plunged into a civil
war unequaled on this continent in duration
cost, an bloodshed. Incidental to this reign
of anarchy, our own Mexico was made the
prey of European intrigue, and cursed with {
disastrous foleign invasion.
Thirteen years ago, the superiority OF
"Anglo- Saxon self-goverment' eliminated
in the assassination of the ruling President
For which they valiantly hanged woman
Two years later the Presidents successo
was impeached for misdemeanors. Ter
years ago a military chieftain, in who's
| character the humanity of Santa Anna wa
combined with the abnegation of Pizarro
was chosen to the Presidency. At the en-.
of his four years term of Office, he was al
most unanimously reelected. He was yer
popular ruler. During his term of Office th
Vice-President of the country, the secretar
Of the interior Tor Hacienda), the secretar
Of the treasury, the secretary of war, tn
secretary of the navy, the minister to Eng
land. the Presidents private secretary, th
speaker of the House of Representatives. an
an army of minor dignitaries, were all foun
guilty of public and private robbery! Som
were imprisoned, but the popular Presiden
Immediately pardoned them. A public ma
in the United States is rarely brought to trit
for crime. He either valves Il trial
pleading his privilege" as it is called, {
else submits his case to caucus of his part,
or, in ecclesiastical cases, of his church, an
is always triumphantly vindicated.
Two years ago the quadrennial election fo
President occurred. Senior Tilden receive
majority of a quarter of a million vote
but, the party in power favoring his OF
: ponents, and threatening to use the army
favor of the latter, q compromise was affec
ed, by which fifteen of the purest men
both parties were chosen to decide the que,
ton. Those fifteen pure men proved the
superiority by voting in court exactly as tht
had voted at the election. So pure were Il
fifteen purest men found in Sodom!
The self-S governing Anglo-Saxons at Il
:. North are now investigating this affair, al
: uncovering mass of corrupt bargain al
i sale such as never disgraced the vilest pueb
} of North or South America.
No, Senior Lsrdo, if you wish to gain t
: suffrages of free Mexicans, you must no
: up loftier exemplar than that of the CO
. rupt, anarehical republic despotism of t
. North. We are not prepared to exchan
e our bull lights for your ''prize-ring," o
e religious liberty for your Methodist Sta
IS church, nor the legacy of Bolivar for eth
5, an Austrian sceptre or mock republic d
I. guising military Plutocracy.