River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-11-07

A paper of Puetda City, Mexico, on Sept.
%, published plan for remodeling Mexico
and getting few STAMPS" The article is
headed .Good and DISTINGUISHED Counsels."
1t says: daily, Mexico is in greater danger
of losing its autonomy, liberty, and indie
pendence, through the plots of its native i'll
triguers. The polls are tempered with and
manipulated. Mexico has about nine mil
lion inhabitants, of which scarcely one mil
hon NAV be said to be civiliZed the other
eight millions are buried in the deepest
ignorance. The Indians of this country,
from the time of our independence, have
not made any progress, either morally OF
Observation-Disclosures almost on idiotism-
and the liability of their being led by I'M
scrupulous political designers is the cause OF
all our evils. We have an immense border
along the frontiers of the United States,
Guatemala and Belize. We are not able TO
AXE care of it and will always be apt to be
tncroached upon by our neighbors under the
pretext of our raiding on their territory.
Most of this frontier is a desert, being vast
outlay to us for our troops and their main
tenances, without its bringing us any in
come. Our neighbors there practice SNUG
Cling on the largest scale with perfect i'm
punity. and all their tendencies are to absorb
us, for which purpose they seek to COM
mence war in which all the advantages are
on their side; for we cannot reckon on the
patriotism of our idiotic Indian population
ignorant of the meaning of the term native
country, nor can we reckon on those whose
only country and God is money, nor on those
who prefer the Vatican and its clerical gov
eminent to the civil government, and who do
rot quarrel with any invader, so that their
rights and riches are not touched. Consid
ering, therefore, that our chief duty is to
preserve our nationality and endeavor to be-
come an intelligent nation:
Therefore, we propose as a platform to
save us from the threatened shipwreck:
1. To offer at public sale all the sparsely
populated country bordering on the United
States, Guatemala, and Belize, preferring as
buyers IIatfn races.
?. The United States may be admitted as
bidders if those above indicated do not pres
ent themselves.
g. The Mexican inhabitants of the sec
tons sold are to be at liberty to remain or
emigrate, and their property is to be re-
spected.
4. With the proceeds of this sale the new
frontier is to be well eolonized, to serve as
barrier against future encroachments.
5. For the Indigenous classes lands are
to be bought from the large landholders, to
be paid for in instruments, and an effort is
to be made to civilize the Indians.
g. Mechanics and savings banks are to
be established.
7. A system of public schools is to be
rigidly enforced.
s. Railroads, telegraphs, public works,
hospitals, and penitentiaries are to be estab-
lished.
8. By establishing a national guard the
large army is to be reduced to one third its
present size.
10. The navy, ordnance, and armories-
re to be improved and increased.
IL. The least of citizens to be able to &C
cuse before the supreme court any Congress
men that utter an opinion of opposition TO
to the constitution, reform, or progress.
The legal sale of lands are of no account
to Us, in our conception, cannot diminish
our dignity or offend our self-respect. We
cannot help rejecting that the present state
of affairs leads us 10 national dissolution and
to war. True, we would confront our enc
mics. q few thousand patriots would die and
our fame become gr at, but our nationality
would be extinguished, our children be less
than slaves. Then would the Mexican re-
public perish without any excuse for ever
having S1iStrA. va INC otAet Iadu. the Rnssf9
of Mexico would become somewhat smaller,
but its autonomy would remain assured, and
we might acquire respect abe Sums of money
not otherwise to be had. Perhaps, it cou-
cludes. our descendants, strong and vigorous,
may afterward come to acquire what to-day
circumstances compel us to sacrifice. This
platform is fathered by man IN high posi-
ton IN this capital, who would find it very
announcement TO have his name published as
the pr 3jector. Another iit.le point he seems
to have forgotten that the hateful United
States might object to buying any desert
tract of land; they have quite enough in
Alaska. And the commerce Of the good