Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1879-01-29
VILE EATMENT OFMRRICO.


When the good faith which Mexico
HAS vxnioitod ia ali her dealings with
the United States, since Diaz attained
TO power, Is considered candidly, the
conduct OF the Fraudulent Administra.
tion and especially of the department
Of State toward that friendly govern
ment and weak nighbor, deserves to
be stigmatized as outrageous and posi-
lively brutal. Instead Of encouraging
intimate relations, and Of winning con-
fidence in order to acquire the COM
merce which passes by our doors and
goes four thousand miles out of the
way to seek a more hospitable wei
come, every means seems to have been
tried to provoke i'll will and strife.
Mexican territory has been invaded
over and over again, under the ialsest
Of protences, and with the deliberate
design of melting war, as tho necessa-
ry step to acquisition Of territory and
the confirmation Of large pretended
mining titles by force of arms. This
policy from first to last has been a
huge job, and is rendered more despi-
cable because Mexico is known not TO
have the ability to contend successful
ly against the United States, though
she had abundant capacity to make
any contest sufficiently protracted and
serious to add hundreds OF millions TO
our public debt, which is already big
enough for the rising generation TO
handle.
Instead Vr iesPvndins properly W
her endeavors to satisfy our exorbi-
tant demands, every step of hers in that
direction has been answered with in
sulting suspicion, and every act mis-
construed as an evasion Of duty. To
meet the complaints of cattle stealing
by Indians, many OF whom were Tex
ans iD disguise, who made profitable
business Of robbing their friends, and
then raised an outcry against Mexico,
Diaz ordered q large force to the Rio
Grande, which has patrolled the din
fected district" and sought by vigi-
lance and zeal to remove every cause
Of discomfort. The dispatches Of Mr..
Evarts on that point are filed with
gross indIgnities, which he would not
dare to offer to strange power, and
which are rendered doubly mean and
dastardly because Mexico looks to the
United States for example, and almost
for protection, as the directing authori-
ty on the American continent He has
done his best, while sending out circu-
lars like a sewing machine agent to the
four corners of the earth soliciting
trade, to repel all the advances of
Mexico, and to drive all her business
into the markets CT England, France
and Germany.
In this respect he has been success
ful, and hardly in any other. Now
that Mexico has sent forward the third
installment, of the awards under the
joint Commission, Mr.. Evarts has
any grievance to redress, after his own
example of censuring the Mexican Gov
ernment for guarding the Rio Grande.
If the Board of Chicago and other en-
terprising people who are going to
Mexico with view of opening new
avenues of business desires success TO
attend their expedition, they had bet.
ter begin at home by suppressing the Of
fensive utterances of the Department
OF State, which has been striving with
nnwonted energy and sinister intes
tions, since Hayes usurped the office
he now occupies, to precipitate war
between the two countries. If we are
at peace today, it is because Mexico
has patiently submitted to great
wrongs, believing that the people of
the United States do not desire war
for spoilation and that in their own
way they would correct the glaring in.
justice Of an Administration imposed
on this country by fraud--N. y. Sun.