Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-08

was breveted with so many scars, who could
not only plan complicated campaign, but
win it inch by inch at the head of his tat
terdemalfons; who spiked the enemy's bat
terry with his own hands, in the heat of the
melee; who served his own guns when the
last gunner had fallen or run away; who
dazzled his men and his people as well by
his personal in-fghting as by the endless
| ingenuity and almost devilish inspirations
| by which he befooed or shattered the enemy
| that sort Of man, among any sort of men
who love red blood and steady hand, gan
get listeners after the fight when he speaks
quietly as to citizens, telling them Of ma
tional righteousness, mercy and judg-
ment to come
What He Has Done for Mexico.
| No one would be more grateful for scien-
| tifc demonstration that somewhere else in
| human history so radical a change has come
over the political. social and comm erciai
circumstance of nation in so short time
as has befallen Mexico since Diaz wound the
reins round his hands. l have not been able
to find 1t for myself, with fairly intimate
knowledge of what Mexico Is, and consider
| able attempt to learn something of other
history.
Fifteen years ago Mexico was a byword
among the nations; unsettled by revolutions,
, moth eaten with brigandage, Tweedian in
local politics, remote, uneasy, ignorant, in
| accessible, unsafe and beggared. Today 1t
| is as law abiding, safe, as cleanly ad-
| ministered, as any state in our union, bar
! none; as easily traversed as any OF our
| states west Of the Missouri; as compact ana
| national in spirit, and In fact as could visa
| some better countries to be, OF sound bust
| ness prosperity in every line that ingenuity
could question, and of a mental awakening
| IL l..
| Diaz not only crushed revolution-and the
way to crush is to crush-and weeded out
corruption In office, and cured the thieves
and brigands and agitators who were durable
and wiped out those that were not. He
| fetched into Mexico the heaviest railroad
| building that has been seen since our trans
continental lines, and supplemented then,
| with the telegraph and very good postal
| service He slaughtered the obstructive in
terstate and inter-town tariffs, multiplied
| manufactures, by an enormous figure,
| through judicious legislation, turned the
| balance Of trade and changed revenue from
a cavity to an eminence. He set a limit
to the church, and began TO make prisons
| we can justly envy. He greatly empo wsred
| colleges, and from the medieval suppress
sion of women to domestic ignorance sub
verted that whole immemorial fabric and
began for the first time on large scale
| believe, In any Spanish speaking country
to provide literally for women's real edu-
| cation. Long before he became a national
figure he established a girls school in OAK
aca; and now any bright girl in the republic
| can get "a modern and practical education
| II she will
| The Father of the Public school.
Above all, he is the father of the public
| school in Mexico, system to which he gives
not only the due turn of the reins, but his
earnest personal care. There is not a vii
lage in Mexico. even in the remote Indiar
districts, which has not its free public school
and the normal schools of the republic art
turning out yearly little army of earnest
and pretty we'll equipped teachers for these