Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1881-04-29
MEXICO AND IT'S WAYS.
A Good Country for Young Men to
stay Away From.
Salt Lake Tribune

Eait Lake Ir1Dune.
People who read newspapers may expect
counts like the one telegraphed yesterday
from Santa Fe, Of o bloody quarrel be-
tween Americans and Greasers at Ell Paso.
The exodus Of Americans has turned South.
Thirty per cent of the men who will make
up the exodus will either be roughs. before
starting or will become roughs in a few
months. In Mexico there are 1000, 900
women who will prefer Americans to their
own countrymen. The Mexicans annually
manufacture millions of gallons Of aqua
diente brandy which has more quarrel
to the square pint than any other liquor
has to the gallon. Mexicans are prone to
play cards md to dance, and the American
rough takes to these accomplishments even
as the duck does to water. All these
things will lead to trouble. The Greaser
fights with the mochetto and the Ameri-
can with the revolver. The American is
prone to ''get the drop" ON his adversary
and shoot, the Mexican is prone to skulk
in ambush and stab In the back. All these
characteristics, accompan led with all these
facts, will make Mexico q with blood
from Chihuahua to Acapulco before
q better civilization brings peace
to that disturbed country. 1t
will be strange If from these private qrar-
rels there does not eliminate q gigantic
war. But without war the feuds will so
on, and the quarrels will be az bloody as
ever attended the Carbonari of Italy. 1t
is to be the old story Of Anglo-5axon race
meeting the Latin race in rivalry. That
rivalry will mean blood. and the bitterness
will be intensified by all the furious pas
sions which ever turn the human heart
into q hell. Any one who was in Califor-
mia during the early days can easily imag-
inc what will succeed when there comes TO
be q clashing OF races in Mexico. The
pitiable part Of it all will be the destruc-
tion of young (American) men, who,
amid other surroundings, would become
true citizens and o defense to their country.
Thousands and tens Of thousands OF them
will be lost. Some will be murdered +;
will fill drunkard's graves, and
Others, more pitiable still, will descend to
the level of that mongrel race which has
made Mexico a reproach for q century past.
The penalties which are exacted to create
a State are terrible. but they are as moth
ing compared with the penalties which are
demanded, when q State once civilized,
and now fallen back into that barbarian
which has all Of the vices and
none Of the virtues Of c~iviliza-
ton, il to be re-created. Such il
the condition of Mexico, and if the par
ents Of the East whose sons are wild to
seek the new Dorado are wise, they will
turn their steps along the line of the
Northern Pacific Railroad, and impress
upon them that 100 acres Of good land
there, where they can build their homes
and carry and establish the customs OF
their childhood, will be a thousand times
better for them than any fortune which
can be secured in such a land as Mexico il
to-day, or is to be for q long time to come.
The general rule Is that o land in which
the climate teaches no discipline, where
boys are never taught to bring in fire
wood at night, and where the domestic an
imals are never made tame. by being de-
pendent on man for food and shelter,
never produce any great men; and in such
q land the strongest and bravest race will.
in o few generations, become so democrat
lied and depraved that the m will be-
come unfit to become the mothers Of hon
est and true men. Mexico is q good coun-
try for young men. whose characters are
not fully formed, to keep away FROM.
A GREAT many people say what they
don't mean in their prayers. A Scotchman
went behind q fence to pray, and declared