Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-11-17

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profit, 1 broke my sword and turned to
earn my bread in the fields" says Fulsno
de Tai, brave and loyal gentleman, of
who had proved his courage on many
field of battle, and his sipglenees of pur-
pose by steadfastly refusing Offices of inn
portance and emolument under the pres
ent government. "We bow our heads
the controlling spirit OF the working men
OF Mexico; "and We pretend to acquiesce
and admire-we have been taught dis
stimulation by long centuries of oppres-
sion and persecution. But we are only
fighting these tyrants with their own
weapons of hypocrisy aud deceit until
we gain strength to strike openly by &C.
cumulative force of numbers and unison
OF action, and then-of 60 their heads
-zaz A revolution at present would be
fatal; the time has not come; tAe seeds
are not ripe yet"
"Do you remember the Students Riot
over the English debt, led on by Nal
plea. Batalla and Salvador Disz Miron,
our coming hero, our leader and poet of
the clarion notes?'' cries the young
blood of the country. 1--WE blde our
time for the coup d'etat. Not in vain
was the imprisonment OF our comrade,
Gonzales Montes, for the daring
| of his glorious burning words at
the obsequies of Lerdo de Tejsda,
banishsd during his lifetime, whom gush
and hypocritical adulation would have
used after his death for a political coun-
D,k f,I-
is good blood in Mexico-loyal, brave,
disintsrested, staunch and sterling; but
it is in the minority. and it is not in
power, and all the world knows tho
weight of possession.
OF the forces in. existence to oppose
aud counteract liberty and progress, few
outsiders conceive or dream-onlv those
Who have studied Mexico du fondo. How
many know Of the existence of secret
police that dogs ones steps and drinks
ones words, in the guides to tourists,
the hackmen, the walters, the high and
low officials? How many dream
of Mexican political orders as wide
spread as the Nihilists or the
Carbonari? - organizations pledged to
"work" the hated American race to
the utmost for the advantage of the fra
tsrnities. and then to turn upon and tear
and rend all its representatives? Does
any one who has studied the subject i'm
agine that Diaz favors or is friendly to
Americans, save insomuch as suits his
own aims and uses? Ask of those
notable citizens, Mexican born, who So
journ among us in self-chosen exile, in
preference to choosing life in their faith
erland. Ask what hatred, what vindic.
tiveness, what jealousy and envy aud de-
sire for destruction against the United
States Government burns among the
present regime in Mexico. Ask how all
true patriotism and pure political aspira-
ton is strangled, murdered. The "Sus.
pension of Guarantees Act" originally
m easure of safeguard against and pun
ishment OF train wreckers and bandits,
has been converted into an instrument
of assassination OF true and loyal patri-
OTIS. Take the case OF General Garcia de
la Cadens. whose estimable family the
writer has the pleasure of know
ing; refined and cultured people,
who would grace any community,
now plunged into life-long sorrow
by the murder Of their head, who
conspired against the government, it lie
true, but with aims most noble and holy.
Dc la Cadena was patriot as pure and
disinterested as ever breathed; he had
everything to lose, and nothing to gain,
by embarking in revolution, yet he went
into it calmly, deliberately, determinedly,
knowing the odds against him in the for
lorn hope of aiding and rescuing la
patria. He was sold by one of those spies
of Diaz that infest every profession and
circle, and made prisoner, ostensibly to
be conducted to the capital for trial. Such
was the mans prominence, and such the
esteem he commanded among a people
whose own shortcomings peculiarly fit
them to respect integrity in others, that
his enemies knew no court, corrupt as are
the courts in Mexico, would infict upon
him q sentence which the rulers would
consider adequate to his offense, or sufi-
cient for their protection against his future
efforts. The convoy that was his escort
reached place conveniently lonely, and
the officials in charge drew their revol-
vers and ccolly shot the prisoner. There
had been no attempt at rescue, nor at
escape or resistance. 1t was simply a
murder in cold blood, under conditions
violating every principle of the code of
war and of honor; a sacrifice to selfish
fears and base ambition of a loyal gentle
man, patriot and soldier. His assassins,
enriched with money and political posi-
ton in Iacatecas, themselves admit these
facts with incredible etfrontery.
Take this outrage upon Ramon Corona.
He was man sprung from the people,
and hence greatly endeared to them; a
man whose military record was unim-
peachable, heroic; O man sincerely and
disinterestedly friendly to Americans and
American enterprise, and one, for
Mexican, singularly pure in his private
life. His history in the affair
of the French Intervention and
as Minister 10 Spain was above
all reproach; he might have had the
Presidency years ago, but he knew how
surely assassination would reach him in
that high estate. He was the one man
whose popularity with the people, and,
above all, with the soldiery, made him
most formidable rival, if he should 30
elect, to President Diaz. His American
wife, to whose efforts is due the intro
duction of the telegraph and many other
material advancements on the Pacific
Slope of Mexico, was a powerful ally
for him with the advanced progressive
party. Mark the measures taken to dis
arm him. On the approach of the last
Presiden tial election, be was rendered
the Governorship of Jalisco as a sop to
Cerberus, and the Mexican code OF eti-
quette and paramount regard for les con,
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