The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-05-26

A5WC q NO4Y 4SA4OS &AGA W. SNS
Cherokee, C~hoctaws, Greeks, Chicka-
saws, Sioux, Utes, Arapahoes, Chey-
ennes, and other Indian tribes Of this
country. The young people of the
wealthy classes are we'll educated,
many of them being sent to Europe
and this country. Many of the S5no-
ritas are exceedingly sylph like and
handsome, though with a tendency to
grow stout as they grow old. The
rhythmic tones of that soft, bastard
Latin which mel5s like kisses from the
female mouth" are musical indeed
when spoken by them, for their voices,
like that of Annie Laurie, are usually
Low and sweet, like summe breezes sighiDg."
Slavery has never existed IN Mexico
under the R public. Their laborers
are said, by the Americans | met, to
be faithful and eff 3ient. On the
haciendas, asthe large farms are called,
large numbers of laborers are employed
and are called ''peons" On the estate
or hacienda of Jaral twenty thou
sand poems, including their families,
were formerly employed and the owner
of this hacienda furnished an entire
regiment of cavalry in the war of indie
pendeEce, but as is usually the case
with great wealth, on the side opposite
popular rights. The poems are not
slaves, nor attached to the soil, but
their wages not being more than sUf-
cient to support them and their fami-
lies ard having strong local attach
ments, they usually remain from gen
GRAFTON to generation in the employ
of the same hacienda, Wages of la
Dor have always been very low in
Mexico, the population being excess
of the demand for labor and the op
pOrtunities for it's employment, but the
dollar not having been enhanced as
with US, there has been no reduction in
wages as with Us, and hence no strikes
in protest against such cuts. o. the
contrary, owing to the new enterprises
opened up and the increasing demand
for labor, there has been in certain sec
tions and in certain emplOyments a de
clded rise IN wages. Still the labOrer
having been accustomed all his life to
live very cheaply AMI his wants in so
m Id a climate being very few, wages
are still much lower than with US The
fuel, food, and clothing required by
our more vigorous cline could not be
bought with the modest stipend Of the
Mexican day laborer.
Travelling ID mostly d5re on the rail
but when I had occasion to try
the stage coaches l found them the same
conveyances, and exactly as uncom-
Portable, "a with us. l heard OF this
however: a traveller hav
ing bought a first class ticket found
many Of the people around him had
b 1ught second aud third class tickets.
As ell occupied S mllar seats and had
the same accommodations, he was puZ
z ed TO conceive where the diff 3renc0
came in, until the foot Of a long, steep
mill was reached, when the driver en-
tIghtaned him by calling out Ia Soan
ish), Second class passengers, get
out and walk; third class, get out and
push; gentlemen (,enOret) first class
passengers, please keep pour seats"
Ga the cars they also have three classes.
9ut there Is o distinction in the accom-
modations. Toe first class is like the
first class compartment in England.
which IL is usually said there rs used
only by fools, Americans and Dukes"
TIE second class has coed acc0mmnda
tions and is used generally by people
Of m ans. The third class cars have
four benches running the whole length
of the ! and are used by those who
do not feel able to pay second class
fare. The rates Of passenger and Pull
man fare were fixed several years ago
at the average rate OF our Western rail
roads. At that time the Mexican ard
American dollar were of the same
value. Since then the Mexican dollar
has remained at the same value. but
the American dollar, by legislation
designed for that end, has been doubled
il value, requiring double the quantity
of produce 10 buy it. The result. OF
course is that while passenger fare and
Pullman charges on both sides of the
Rio Grande remain nOminally the
same, IN fact travelling on one SIDE
costs about double, The same is large.
~ true of freight rates, the rfdu ,tfor
in the e rates in the United States from
competition being more that made IN
by the enhancement in the standard
of value.
Above FAC atecas is tn hill O m III.
tain La Bufa CHE bufAlD so called
from its shape, and o. thai height a
battle was fought in 1871 resulting in
victory for JuRrez From his summit
as also from the car windows as we
leave for the south ward, IS one Of the
finest views in the world. The fat
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