Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1884-04-28
THE LAND OF THE AZTECS.
Our Mexican Neighbors and Their Developing
Resources

The debate is not altogether one-sided.
1t takes the sharp form of contro-
versy. The Mexican senate, which
will meet about the time you get this
letter into type, will probably confirm
the ratification, because that senate is
just now in the interest of the presi-
dent incumbent, Gonzales, and the
next president, Diaz, but it will not be
passed mem. con. 1t is certain, in
deed, that if it were not for the parti-
sans of the government the treaty
would be rejected, not in obedience to
the manufacturers who insist with
gasp of despair that the admission of
so many American goods without pay
ing duty will ruin them, but in obedi-
ence to the anti-American feeling that
now prevails.
There is one newspaper here that
lives almost entirely on the jealousy of
1.-The North Americans" on which it
feeds; and, while some of the Spanish
Mexican journals are ostensibly friend
ly, they almost unanimously unite in
deprecating the coming of these peo-
pie and disappearing of the current
policy of the government which the
treaty represents. A journal in Zaca-
tecas is oppressed by the nightmare of
"the invasion" of these Huns and
Vandals from the north and warn
Messrs. Gonzales and Diaz that if they
have placed Mexico "humilated and
degraded at the mercy of the con
querer," future generations will curse
their names.
Two of the papers here habitually
apply to those who favor the treaty
the queer Pequot-Greek name Yam
kitilos-Yankee lovers and the story
is around the street this week, and
has even got into print, that $50, 900
Americans" will come down like the
Assyrians within the next fortnight!
"The sentiments and manners of our
people" says one of these frightened
editors, ''have already been modified
by the Americans in our midst; al
though there are only Il few hundred of
them; how mighty will be the changes
produced when hosts of them flock
across our borders not hundreds, but
five, ten, twelve or twenty millions?'
A good many of the Spansh-MeXicans
think that our country is such desc
late and forbidding place to live in
that nobody will stay there who can
possibly get to Mexico, and that if a
general welcome were extended by
President Gonzales the Northern Re-
public would at once be depopulated.
The Zacatecas stoutly alleges that
the trunk railroads are being built
mainly to facilitate the work of con
quest and that the fellow-cOuntrymer
of General Tavlor and General Scott
need only the opportunity to COB
BILE up Mexico as the buzZard does Z
worm. 1t must be confessed tha
while this fear is altogether mistaken
it is plausible. The so-called "MeXicar
war of thirty-eIght years ago was as
suredly one of the meanest and mos
cowardly wars that a strong natior
ever waged against IA weak one-a wa
of conquest and brutality merely, sucl
as a big bully makes upon little boy
But the party of the first part has Ions
since become ashamed of it, and is no
likely to repeat it, even in the disguise
of peace.
The average Spanish-MeXcan seem
incapable of comprehending the trutl
that we would not accept Mexico as
gift even if her inhabitants We're unan
imously to apply to us for annexation
They can not understand that we haV
all the people we want; that our pop
ulation is already sufficiently mixed
that, though we are Heterogeneous
the temper of our citizens, like thei
language and origin, belongs to tn
temperate zone, and that we canno
afford to imperil our security by an
tropical marriage
have alluded to the opponents {
the treaty as Spanish MeNicanS, for