The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-04-14
Mexico, Texas and the United states


Mexico, Texas and the United states.
To the Editor of the Herald.
In fulhllment of a promise in the HERALD
of the 10th instant, ask space to offer some
reflections in regard to Mexico and our early
prospective railway connection with that
wonderful and interesting country. Without
clear conception of the true condition and
genius, past and present, Of that people, we
cannot do them justice or realize their grand
achievements in affairs material, or in their
march towards constitutional government
and the education and elevation of the
masses. To some extent shall draw from
an article written several - since,
the predictions of which have been more
than verified, and most respectfully ask a
fair hearing from all railroad men pushing
their lines toward or through that country;
of all capitalists seeking investments as we'll
as citizens seeking homes in Mexico.
This article is prompted by so often seeing
in American newspapers utterances IN some
sense foreshsdowing, as the result OF these
magnificent railway connections, the annexa'
ton of that country to this, or the sbsorp-
ton of its political autonomy by men
vet to 90 there, embodying, with no effort at
disguise, the idea of filbusterism, of all
things the most potent and detestsbe to the
Mexican mind. Every such American news
paper utterance is seized upon by the organs
of the old party of oppression and clerico--
military despotism to alarm the people and
break down the noble n of progress,
which has held the reins o Government for
twenty-five years, inter- only by the
French Intervention from l.O5 to 1867. Tho
true friends of constitutional liberty, popular
education and enlightened advancement in
Mexico, are previously panied by such
publications. and, TO some extent placed on
the defensive at home, whereas their mission
is ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS s"slnst the remnant
of all former abuses ant expressions, ana
aggressive in favor of utilizing every practical
conception for Che enlightenment and eleva-
ton of the people.
The popular O ii MON of our countrymen is
that Mexico is a land of ever-continuing rev.
olutions and internecine strifes-that the
country has been on the descending scale for
at least two generations, and that anarchy is
its normal condition. / sm fam 70 believe
that not a man or woman in the United
states, II only moderately informed as 10
the true history Of that country, would en-
tertain any such thought. Can we not afford,
even in these days of development, enterprise
and money getting, 10 be just to our next
door neighbor, the second republic In the
world?
undertake TO say Quoting from an article
written by myself several years ago. that no
people on the globe are more entitled TO the
good will of all liberty-loving people of this
country than are that portion of the Mexican
people belongiDging to that party which,
since the accession of Juarez to the pres
idency in 1859, has controlled the government,
excepting during the French intervention
the great republican or democratic party OF
the republic.
For precisely three hundred years-l521 TO
l82l-:he natives of Mexico were held In the
most abject bondage and ignorance by the
crown and minions of Spain. Their lot was
one of toll and misery for the enrichment OF
their despoilers and oppressors. They were
ground into powder by restrictions and ex.
actions, scarcely surpassed BY the. rules OF
penitentiary life. II was death for a
foreigner 70 set foot on Mexican soil without
permission from the Xxi Of Spaia. No
trade was allowed except with Spain. All
officers of profit or dignity, whether civil,
military or ecclesiastical, we're monopolized
by pets and favorities from Spain, who came
10 plumber themselves into wealth and re-
turn. They were not allowed 70 plant
vineyards, or produce any staple articles OF
commerce that was produced In SPAN, but
were compelled 10 buy from the mother
country. Il wss for three hundred years 3
vast -politico religious desp0tism, alievisted
only by the occasional rule Of . true hearted,
Christian bishop, and soothei by the
sympathy Of such natives ss were allowed 70
gu poor bensfces In the uDderprissthood in
outsying villages and pueblos.
Commencing under the lead OF three such
priests-Hidslgo, MOrelos and Mstsmor0s-
10 1910, al q whom we're captured and
butcbersd 81 martyrs 70 Mericsn liberty,
eleven years lister The revolution triumpbed.
Imagine the condition If the country sfisr
three hundred years Of such op-
preston, forwarded b. eleven years
of bloody, relentless and destructive
ciyil war Stricken s with q bosom Of
destruction, industry PROSTATE. unscquAinted
Win he outside world, without knovlsdgs
Of letters or books. the multitude absolutely
Unable 70 resd, b1oysd up and held %
Vetbsr bv q single inspirsiion-hstrsd Of
Susir ard love Of Eberty-tbe task Of
forming = gDvsrumsnt and preserving Their
5ss-iv bought rigtts lay before them
A few vssrs showed shst though freed Of
fbs Sparish yoks, the elsDsnis o. oespotisms