The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1879-01-07
Vile Treatment of Mexico.

When the good faith which Mexico has
exhibited in all her dealings with the United
Statcs, since DIAz attained to power, is con-
sidered candidly, the conduct of the Fraudu-
lent Administration and especially of the
Department Of State toward that friendly
Government and weak neighbor, deserves TO
be stgmatized ms outrageous and posi-
lively brutal. Instead Of encouraging init
mato relations, and OF winning confidence In
order to acquire the commerce which passes
by our doors and goes four thousand miles
out OF the way 10 seek n more hospitablc
welcome, 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 falsest OF pre-
fences, and with the deliberate design of in
citing war, as the necessary step TO acqulsi-
tion Of territory and the confirmation Of
largo pretended mining titles by force Of
arms. This policy from first to last has
been huge job, and is rendered more despi-
cable because Mexico Is known not TO have
the ability to contend successfully against
the United States, though she has 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 Of responding properly to her en-
beavers to satisfy our exorbitant demands.
every step Of hers i'm that direction has been
answered VIII insulting suspicion, and every
net misconstrucd as an evasion of duty. To
meet the complaints of cattle stealing by
Indians, many Of whom were Texans in dis.
guise, who made n profitable business of
robbing their friends, and then raised an
cutlery against Mexico DtAz ordered large
force to the Rio Grandc which has patrolled
the " infected district" and sought by vigil
nnce and zeal to remove every cause of dis
content The dispatches OF Mr. EvARrs ON
that point are filled with gross indignties.
which he would not dare to offer to strong
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 authority on the
American continent He has done his best,
while sending out circulars like a sewing
machine agent to the four corners OF the
Earth soliciting trade, TO repel all the adj
vances OF Mexico, and to drive all her busl-
ness into the markets of England, France,
md Germany.
In this respect he has been successful and
hardly in any other Now that Mexico has
sent forward the third installment OF the
awards under the Joint Commission, Mr..
EvARTs has another grievance to redress,
after his own example of censurng the
Mexican Government for guarding the Rio
Grande. II the Board Of Trade OF Chicago
and other enterprising people who are going
10 Mexico with a view Of opening new ave-
MUGS Of business desire success TO attend
their expedition, they had better begin at
home by suppressing the Offensive utter
Rnces of the Department Of State, which
has been striving with unwonted energy
and sinister intentions. since HAYES usurped
the Office lie now occupies, to preclptate IA
war between the two countries II we are
Mt peace to-day, IL is because Mexico has
patiently submitted TO great wrongs, be-
lieving that the people OF the United States
do not desire war for spoliation, and that
IN their own way they would correct the
glaring injustice of an Administration i'm
posed on this country by fraud.