The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1895-01-25
PROVO CITY.
MEXICO AND GUATEMALA.

1t now seems that Mexico and Guat- |
emala will fight over the boundary
question. 1t is believed that many IL
not the most of the Central American
states will be eventually drawn into
the fight, il once it is begun. Tms
would make lively little ill and Tor
a year Mexico would have her hands
full But The lack OF autonomy among
the Central american states would, IN
the end, give the victory to the Mexl-
leans. There are some fine soldiers III
Central America, but there is little or
no discipline among.them They have
peen fighting with each other for SO
long that. while they all hate Mexico,
they would soon turn and fight each
other as OF Yore. They are. as rule,
turbulent, war-like people with all OF
the faults of the Latin people gener-
ally,
Mexico has had sixteen years OF good
and stable government and is In ex-
callent trim for war of a far higher
grade than this one is likely to be.
The Mexican army is concrete BODY
of we'll disciplined men, well othcered,
and she has in her army many Mus
trious soldiers. Her magnificent mill
tary academy at Chapultepec IS on
scale of equality with our great school
at West Point. Gen. DiaZ, the pres
ident of Mexico, while statesman OF
the first rank, is aleo the first soldier IN
the republic. He is the idol of the llo-
eral or progressive men of Mexico
He would hold the republic in hand as
we'll in war as he has done in peace
Indeed the Mexican nation has grown
immensely since the days when
TAYLOR and Scott triumphed there.
Her army, though small, is
still formidable in point of numbers,
about $4,000 regulars and about 10000
rurals, the latter very fine militia,
spirited, brave and hardy. No better
militia is to be found than the Mexican
rurals, and besides this, in ninety days,
the Mexican forces would number 125,-
900 men and it would march from the
frontier of Mexico to the southern
limit of Central America without seri-
Gus check or weeks delay. The Mexi-
can army is well supplied with all the
most important improvements In mill
tary art of the last thirty years, and
the light troops, or cavalry, is equal tc
any on earth.
If this war breaks out we do not hesi
tate to say that Mexico will reimburse
herself handsomely in territory fol
all the expense and trouble she will bt
put to in the war. Gen. Diaz coult
count confidently upon fifty thousant
men, should he need them, from tht
United States. We would not hesitate
to undertake to raise that number il
six months and place them in the CITY
Of Mexico. At least half Of them coulC
be sent in three months. The cam
paign would be rush. Hard marching
and plenty of fighting would dis
tinguish the war, for the first months
of the struggle. Indeed the war would
be most excellent opening for oul
wsr-like young men and they would be
led by the grizzled heroes, north and
sou tn, of our late Titanic struggle.
A few years since we paid a visit TO
Mexico and through the courtesy oi
Mexican officers of high rank were
shown through the garrisons and wal
depots of the republic. We can say
from close inspection that the ord,
nance, quartmaster's and commissary
departments were in perfect order
we'll organized and supplied with al
the best modern equipments. Perhaps
there is no army in civilization, Ger.
tainly not this side of Europe, that car
be put in the field in better trim with
80 email waste of time as can the
Mexican army. Hence we say that
the first campaign would be rush
from start to finish.
Indeed the near approach of war
such war, makes the blood in an old
soldiers veins leap at the prospect OF
some clean manly fighting in the near
future. Mexico was never in better
tune and should it once commence We
promise our readers that there will be-
some things in it which will be vel
worth seeing.
If they do get at it our svmpathies
will all be for the brave Mexican army
and its fearless and almost peerless
president, who would doubtless lead
his army in person. Disz is a soldier
every inch of him, and he is a man
among men singularly free from the
common faults of the men of this age.
This struggle would have wonderful
interest for Utonians because so many
of our people haye been colonized there
for many years.
TTIu ploatiOn aococ oaarnc r1ncf M