Arizona weekly citizen., 1886-10-23
Facts About Mexico.
HERMoslLLo. Oct. I7th, lss

HERMosILLo. Oct. 17th, lSSG.
 EDITOR CITIZEN: T have always thought the press to be the most power ful means fer men loving their county to picmo.e IS wealth ,ri prosperity We Go tslk much here, in MexIcO. about patriotism; there Is not j1urlali,. wac wall not speak O, it m every number OI his paper; not a poet vii" does nc. pre- tend his lays inspired by iha, sacred feeling; rct revoiutionist O5livious tC invoke 1t as the sole motive tha, could force him into the warpatb, But II is usual % speak the more uf things We understand the less. and the proof of our improperly understanding patriotism IS that We think it is the sf- fair ofthe government to make our coun- try rich and happy. and tha. we do not assume the task ourselves.
 l think. notwithstanding, that the generation is actually being borl which shall realize that beautiful dream, as the Mexicans of the present days seem to thInk more thsn their tcrefRthers about books and schools, snd turn backs tO their blood stained history Of prvruncia- mentos aud revolts.
 have the honor to claim place for these line- in the co!uwnS of the CITI- zES For know the Americans and their press. and feel my self we'll convinced that the public paper is the pOS7r that must and will create that sulId a1d true friendship Of our two republic, on which depends so much the future wealth and general zeltAre of our own,
 Everybody who Is we'll acquainted with American character and manners, knows that one of the genuIne feature of a true yaukCe-fOrmed mind, Is ncvef 10 be in a burry-especially m business msiters-and this truth accounts sut- ficiently well for the fact that, notwith- standing the disappearance ot the Apaches and the absence this year of the yellow fever. the American immigration still hesItstes to look towards Sonora, where 1t had given activity and and life to SO many promising and well founded prospects as were destroyed by the epidemic three years ago.
 And II cannot be doubted that the WAT made against the rebelliOus 1aquI Indians, is the obstacle which still re- tains American capital and enterprise from re-sppearIng in Sonora; for the very nature Ot such war i5 demOrilIz ing within the limits of the contesteC territory, dIstaUt enOGgh to impair the security enjoyed all through the busi- ness gone of the state.
 We therefore expect that when n per fec. conf 'ence reigps therein, our per manent peace and sanitary condition, Sonora glll again be the money getting quarters of the industrious westerneI aud the home ot the not few AmerIcaut who know that there IS scarcely cOun try in the world offering the foreigntr ( more frank hospitality and decided pro tection than Mexico.
 We are no: SO candid. nevertheless, as ,o avoid locking at all the phases of our relations with the Amcricau people. There Is a prejudice, very common among the average American population. thBt the Mexican laws ore little less than barbarOus ard our manners little more thsa uncivil.zcf. It Is not long go that read ID an Arizona paper that there was q MexIc ID statute authorizing a creditor to seize bis debtor Ind make his slave oi him unti! the debt l. paid with the product of his labor. Such absuriIties hs this, have no doubt, art widespread all over the United States, but the prOvcFbisl American good sense makes me hope they are not deep rooted.
 To destroy these and other not lees false ideas respecting us, IS the object of the serieS ot articles l will prepare for the CITIZEN. md to which the present one serves as a preface.
 I beg your leave, sir, to subscribe my self, very truly yOurs,
 BEIIsAEID NALESCIA.