The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-01-29

ton to your country? Win you again adj
iourn without opening up in good faith all
your millions of acres of public lands to
settlement and cultivation Will you DO
nothing to induce men who pretend to own
twenty, fifty, one hundred and two hun
bred square leagues of land, derived by
some real or pretended gift from the King
of Spain, and who do net cultivate one acre
in a thousand of their said claims, to divide
those immense uncultlvated territories into
small tracts and sell them at reasonable
rates TO the 5000 600 of poor, degraded and
landless poems and dependents of the coun-
try; and to such Industrious immigrants
from abroad as may be abls to buy
them? Or, will you continue the system,
under which iive-sevenths of your people
are landless, houseless, uneducated and
half-clad poems or seris--one-siXth of whom,
it is believed, sleep outside OF houses every
night OF the yearp Cast your eyes abroad
by day and see them-in your streets and
highways, bare-footed and half covered in
dirty rags-by night shivering under
porches, sheds and walls, without house or
home or even blankets to keep their bodies
warm-but mild, patient, honest, and only
needing little land, primary schools, and
thority to enable them to arise
from their sad condition and be-
come useful productive citizens of free
country. You MUST look at them You
must act and give them a fair opportunity
or you will fail in the first essential step
necessary to regenerate and save your coun-
try. Give them little land-not in pueblos
but each family enough for little farm
in its own right--give them common
schools-not to learn how many feast days
there are, for this they should learn at
Sunday schools, but to learn how to read,
how to write--hOw to cultivate how TO i'm
prove their horses, cows, sheep, etc, how
to SOW and how TO reap. De- this, and gen
erations unborn will rise up and call you
blessed.
g Are you going to leave your revenue
laws so that every man who has the enter
prise and patriotism to introduce mill or
other machinery or farming tools, to aid in
improving your country, has TO pay an
enormous tariff at the custom-hOuse for
doing so2 In other words, are you going to
continue taxing the foreign immigrant for
trying TO benefit your country? This has
been done and is now done, at the only port
where there is any regular immigration.
Nay, n poor widow whose profession was to
teach, was charged 800 for bringing a
piano to use in her school. A resident imm-
igrant was charged $3.50 tariff on little
box of seeds imported to give away TO
his neighbors, MeXiCans included-yet the
seeds only cost in the United States $3.50.
Another immigrant was charged $500
tariff ON table mustard that cost 50 in the
United States SO general and 50 eXorbi-
tant were these charges on necessary arti-
Ccs for families that fully one-half the inn
migrants went back ,denOuncing the country
and its custom-house officers as as set of
hcartless leeches, ready to rob women and
children of the last cent they had on earth.
Are you going, by continuing such things,
to keep immigration out OF this country?
If so, have the candor and manhood before
you adjourn TO pass plain resolutions saying
so. Theu, all foreigners in Mexico will
know what to do. Seventy years ago you
had twice as many people as the United
States. Now the United States have five
times as many as you have-a hardy, enter
prisng and intelligent nation of treemcn
Her whole territory is dotted and checked
by railroads, canals, cities, churches,
schools, villages, factories, etc Her from
tier, for ninety years, too, has been rescued
from barbarous. and warlike Indians, Why
all this prosperity ! answer, 1t has all
GENE from religious liberty (Which God
ever blesses), universal education and the
immense foreign immigration always en-
Outraged by the government.
ON the other hand, since 1910, your
frontier has rcccded you have lost terri
tory and your country has been a land OF
disorder and blood. Why so? because,
firstly, until lately, you haYe had Tor $50
years RELIGIOUS Intolerance or despolism
(which God never las and never will bless,
YOU mad no common schools to epiighten
the multitude; and instead of encouraging
immigration and the introduction OF tools,
machinery, improved seeds and animals,
your country has shown an unreasonable,
and worse than childish prejudice against
foreign emigration and foreigners gen
orally.
Representatives of Mexico! The 'rc-
proaches of friend are sweetcr than tie
kisses of an enemy" Receive kindly these
simple trut s. The highest glory OF Il
statesman is to rise above the momentary
prejudice OF his countrymen and boldly 20
forth on the thorny path of truth, light
progress and that liberty which, beng
tue, shall endure forever. Open wide your
doors for immigration-plant common
schools among your iahoring poor through
out the land--interost every family in the
ownership of little farm-eXcite the. love
OF "homc, sweet home" in every Mexican
heart-stimulate industry, improvement
and invention by appropriate rewards-dC
these things, and soon pronunciamento'
will cease ladrones will forsakes their cvi
ways-and in few years Mexico will stand
forth Us majestic us her heights OF eterna
snow-rcgenerat Observation-Disclosures in
beauty, and admired by all nations as tn,
Queen of the New World.