Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-03-19
PRESIDENT DIAZ,
His Great Work I'm the DEVELOPMENT
of Mexico in a Few Years.

From the City of Mexico Herald
1t is astonishing what pulling power a To-
connective has. In sixteen years it has
hauled Mexico. plunged in creole provin-
claiiSm, Its dream interrupted by occasional
cannon shot, up to the higher plane of wide
international activities. Mexico the pre-
historic Mexico that Porfirio Diaz found.
has gone forever Old men and some cler-
ical newspapers humble their protest and
lament the past which was picturesque but
incredibly backward. On the whole, the
change is better for Mexico. which is now
part of the great family of nations.
Mexico now has a national credit and an
addition to its legitimate stock of self-re-
spect. This statesman. Porfirio Diaz, is
something OF compound locomotive him.
self. We have seen him Juggling at the
inertia of a Mexico welded to the past.
trying to pull 1t over a steep upgrade
That was back In 1885. when the credit of
the nation was NIL when the treasury was
empty and employees were lucky IL they
got their pay at postponed dates. We
heard men standing idly in their counting
rooms predicting that the big Diaz loco
motive would blow up. plunge down an en-
bankment of revolution. &c.
Mighty few were the capitalists here who
then. in dark days, stood by the President
OF Mexico. He knows that: he can count
over the roll of the pessimists, of the hid,
den critics. of the prophets of despair But
he kept on pulling for all he was worth
and that was much. as We can attest He
hours day; his courage never failed him
and lucky it was for Mexico that he had a
constitution hardened in many campaigns
man of iron and fire.
Porfirio Diaz believed I'm steam and iron:
his creed was locomotive; he was ready
TO give charters for railways, he welcomed
with glad hand the men of positive
force. He surrounded himself with big
Drained, hearty. resolute men. And they
all pulled together. So this statesman of
lever in what they could do for Mexico is
vindicated. He sees Mexico prosperous and
progressive; men everywhere believe in
him; he is going to be president four years
more, and he looks over the broad land.
and, discerning everywhere factory CHM
of hundreds on hundreds of locomotives.
he feels sure that his work has been for
his countrys good.
Some petty critics affect to deprecIate
the Mexican president: they would criticise
Napoleon reconstructing French instftu-
lions. a Bismarck making an empire out OF
petty duchies and princfpalities. II we had
known Porf1rio Diaz when the skies were
all black, when he was In poverty, making
a nation. when malignity buzzed about him,
and he toiled like another Hercules, we
might believe some of the talk of the little
critics But having regarded the work Of
the man who let locomotives loose over the
race OF Mexico. we have no patience left to
fsten 70 weaklings who could not live here
and make money IL the president had not
transformed Mexico and made 1t a place
for healthful activities
The hoarse and cheerful shout OF the To-
comouve makes up the sufficient hymn to
Mexico's progress The transformer Of
q nation because she is alive. modern and
progressive.