Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1881-05-28
Mexico and it's WAYS.


Salt Lake Tribune: People who read
newspapers may expect during the next
few years to see many accounts like the
one telegraphed yesterday from Santa
Fe, of a bloody quarrel between Ameri-
cans and Greasers at FL Paso. The
exodus of Americans has turned south.
Thirty Der cent of the men who will
make up the exodus will either be
roughs before starting Or will become
roughs in few months. in Mexico
thcre are 100000 women who will
prefer Americans to Their own country
men. The MeXicans annually manufact-
ure millions Of gallons of aguadiente
brandy which has more quarrel to the
square pint than any other liquor has to
the gallon. Mexicans are prone to play
cards and to dance, and the American
rough takes to these complishments
even as the duck does to water. All
these things will lead to trouble. The
Greascr fights with the mochetto and
the American 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, ac-
companied by all these facts, will make
Mexico run with blood from Chihuahua
TO Acapulco before better civilization
brings peace 20 that disturbed country.
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quarrels there does not culminate q
gigantic war. But without war the
feuds Will go on, and the qnarrels will
be rs bloody us ever attended the Car
bonari Of Italy 1t is to be the old story
of the Anglo-Saxon race meeting the
Latin race in rivalry. That rivalry will
mean blood, and the bitterness will be
intensified by all the furious passions
which ever turn the human heart into
! hell Any one who was in California
during the early days can easily imagine
what will succeed when there comes to
| be 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 defense to their
country. Thousands and tens of thou
sands Of them will be lost. Some will
be murdered some will fill drunkards'
graves, and others, more pitiable still j,
will descend to the level of that mongrel
race which has made Mexico reproacli
for century past. The penalties which
are exacted to create state are terrible,
but they are as nothing compared with
the penalties which are demanded,
when state once civilized, and now
fallen back into that barbarism which
has all Of the vices and none of the vir-
tues of civilization, is to be re-created.
Such is the condition of Mexico, and if
the parents 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 i'm
press upon them that 100 acres of good
land there, where they can build their
homes and carry and establish the GUS
toms Of their childhood, will be thou
sand times better for them than any
fortune which can be secured in such
a land as Mexico is to-day, or is to lie for
a long time to come. The general rule
is that land in which the climate
teaches no discipline, where boys are
never Taught to bring in fire wood al
night, and where the domestic animals
are never made tame by being depend
|, ent on men for food and shelter, never
produce any great men and in such a
land the strongest and bravest race will
in few generations, become so demor.
allied and depraved that the women
> will become unfit to become the moth.
ers of honest and true men. Mexico ID
good country for young men, whose
characters are not fully formed, to keep
: away from.