El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-22
OUR MEXICAN LETTER.
Touching on Different Subjects of In
tie; est to the Public.
DIAZ AND HIS GOVERNMENT.

! dent Diaz. The Press man says the
president is 81 Protestant and that the
members of his ca binet are a'sO T O.
testants. Neither the president nor any
member of his cabinet are Protestants,
neither are they good Catholics, as they
are all MasOns, the president oeIng
321 degree Mason of the Scottish rite
order. The Press man also says that
Mrs. Diaz is great politician. IhlS
also is a mistake, as Mrs. Diaz takes
no interest in such affairs any more
than to intersede with her husband in
such matters as are brought to her at
tentiOn through the course of charity.
Mrs Daz is strong Catholic and has
great Influence with the president who
| worshfps her. And he has reason to,
because she is beautiful and rehned,
ard has brought the president preStage
with the higher class of MeXlcanS OF
| this republic. However, Mrs. DlaZ'
father was of the Liberal party and
strong friend of the lamented BenitO
Juarez and he was one of the last to
give under to the indOmitable POrtrlo
Diaz when the latter came into power
AS Juarez was the leader of the liber-
ais he was naturally in opposition to
the domiuent rule of the Catholic
church in Mexico and Manuel Romero
Rubio, the father Of Mrs. Diaz, was his
right hand man and adviser, hence the
early teachings of Mrs. Diaz was to
the liberal way of thinking politically.
| However the women of Mexico are the
strong supporters of the faith, the men
do not believe strongly and merely
keep up their form of religion to please
the ladies of their families. The fact
of the business is that the men of Next
co are fast becoming AgnOstics, and
while they are not yet willing to admit
it, they show it in their acts and man
ners.
Nv. i - ~,
of government that prevails in this
country al the present time is more
like the rule of an emperor than the
ruling of republican president. The
people are of a different class from
those of the United States and have to
be ruled differently. These people
would not have given up the fight as
easily as did the Americans in the late
heated election in the states: they
would have become so imbued with the
ideas which they espoused in the cam
paign that they would have resOrted to
arms before they would have submitted
to be ruled by the opposing party,
| President Diaz is a military man and
and rules with an iron hand, but justly.
While he makes great military show
he never resorts to martial power I'M
less it is absolutely necessary, but he
keeps the matter before the people to
show them that be can use it if neces-
sary. The military of this country is
the pride of the nation and it is now
equipped with all the modern para
phernalia of warfare. The soldiers of
this country are kept on the move all
the time and are not allowed to stop in
any one place long enough to become
restless and mutinOus and this also
answers the double purpose of prevent
ing ambitious officers from getting too
much influence over the soldiers and at
-fNlt fI.a1F.
| advancement as was the case many
times before Diaz came into power in
this country. This may be a military
form of government, but it is for the
the best interests OF the people, one
that is ruled with the grasp of iron, but
one where even the poorest can get
justice, and it would be foolish to lay it
aside for the trial OF some other scheme
Of government.
AN AMERICAN LADY'S WORK.
While on the subject of President
Diaz and his estimable lady it would
be we'll to state here that an American
lady was the cause of that union that
has brought so much peace and pros
perity to this Land of the MONDAY
sun" The story as tod to your cor
respondent runs as follows: sIu former
times President Diaz mixed more with
the people than he does at present and
was always at the entertainments that
| were givensby high society in those
days. Manuel Romero Rubio, the
father Of Mrs. Diaz, had been banished
from the republic, along with other OF
the Juarez and LerdO leaders of the
war by which Diaz became president.
After living abroad for several years
amnesty was granted and RubjO return
ed to this republic but still held
strong animOsity to the man that had
overthrow his favorite from power.
Diaz and Rubio knew one another well
from coming into contact with each
other during the stormy days of the
invasion of Mexico by the forces of
Maximillian, but the two passed each
other by when they met in public, as
though they were not brothers in arms
| when Mexico needed them the worst.
| At certain social event in latter days
the president was there and was pro
menading with the wife of the Ameri-
can minister on his arm; Manuel RO
nero Rubio was there also and was
accompanied by his beautiful daughter,
Senorita Carmen. The American
minister's wife pretended not to know
of the differences that existed between
President Diaz and Senior RubiO. but
by an act only known. to American
ladies, she managed to bring the two
so close together that she innOcently
intr oduced them. and then she intro
duced the president to the beautiful
daughter, and then taking the arm OF
Senior Rubio she marched him away
and left the president, who was then
widower, with the daughter of his
political antagonist. Thus the enmity
between the two foremost statesmen
was buried and the daughter of one
soon became the wife of the other and
Mexico has prospered by the union.
An American woman brought the great
president of Mexico his wife, and this
same beautiful wife has brought peace
| to Mexico.
THE LOVE OF SHOW.
These people love show and when a
real piece of royal human flesh shows
up in this republic they act as though
they cannot do enough to entertain
| him. There is now travelling in TINS
republic a real Austrian prince, o.
nat formerly resided Ia this country
as satellite of the ill-fated MaXimil-
Lam. In fact he it was that turned