The Wichita daily eagle., 1901-06-15
THg 81 81 THE eRAssAoPPER.

I
/ view the far-fanle6 Castle OF Chapulte-
/ pee Thus are the future great men Of
! the tropical republic shown the goal OF ali
/ ambitions in Mexico, the dream of the
/ poor lieutenant. The constant vision Of
/ some young lawyer, dressed dismaily ia
! black, OF IN some city baked By the
fierce sun CT q land where powder IS
mixed with the blood n mems veins
1 One may be sure that when young
/ POrfirio Diaz, a law student who bad
/ made an incursion into theology as g pre-
/ liminary TO studying men and events
/ grew tired OF the duli books in the ofIice
down in CaZaca city. he sometimes
/ thought Of dominance and power as syn
/ b0lized by the great rock looming up
j from the plain in the valley Of Mexico
I The "Hiu OF the Grasshopper'' is q mag
1 net
( The man who can reach that castle
/ palace as master. and hold il, IS in no
/ need OF parchment credentials TO power.
/ He shah rule By the right divine Of cour-
/ age, strong wiu and subtle intellect
/ These things constitute the best tide 20
| govern in these lands OF the south. lie
/ shall be the fount Of honor: al men shah
/ come 70 him 70 have their claims 20 place
/ examined and certified. From sonora
/ with coal and sold IL IT'S plains and
] mountains 10 Yucaran yielding mhres
/ and fierce indian warriors. the man Who
is secure at Chapultepec is master. The
/ people viii move along the path Of pro-
gress as ne commands. he viii build
I the schoolhouses in the Sierras IN the
/ valleys. and along the white coast, and
1 he Will open innumerable paths FOR the
activities Of the young men who shall
/ look TO him alone. the paternal admins
traitor
When you stand on q terrace Of the
! castle and look OF over the great valley
| of Mexico, itself big enough for an an
/ tique kingdom, your mind sees beyond
! the tail mountains, some snow-topped,
/ down into the hot country where men are
! growing coffee, sugar cane. cocoa, W.
/ nills, and cutting precious woods in trop-
4 ical forests. Northward lie the great
/ central states. rich in wheat and maize,
with vast hociendas where menive as
! feudaI lords surrounded by their vas
/ sails: little kings in very fact are these
\ lords of lands measured not by paltry
| acres. but by sitiOs Of thousands Of acres
! In the mountains seen from the great
! plain of Anahuac, the central tableland,
/ are mines, and men are down in the
bowels of the earth toiling for that
which. when found. makes it possible FOR
] the more fortunate TO build them great
/ mansions in the federal city. Far far 10
tho north are hue frontier states. the
/ advance guard of all Latin-America
/ against the acquisitive. aggressive, spec
ulative, untiring Yankee. who, half q
| century ago, took one-haif Of Mexico,
( has now reached out 20 the Antilles. 10
Hawaii and eve nholds in his grasp the
/ distant Philippines, but recently held by
| the proud, Old decayed nation which lost
/ its grasp on this land nearly so years
| ago. The American is perhaps American
] ling the northern tier Of states, but n
1 the end the climate viii mould him as It
| did the Spaniard, who became the Gre
| ole, changed from the man OF intense
/ and virile energy into the ease-loving den
izen Of the land OF the sun
Down on the coasts. each less than coo
miles away, are busy ports where great
| sums Of money are being spent to make
| them adequate to the needs Of modern
1 commerce The ruler of the land. whose
/ mind is as a. series Of aliases, sees them
/ all, as he sits in the cool Of a summer
/ evening on the terrace at Chapultepec.
| His is a mentality that goes with the
/ physique and daring heart OF the great
| soiuler. The mind Of real general Is
/ sure to generalize, sure 10 take the
| broad and comprehensive view.
| Many long leagues TO the south is
| sluggish, Ul-governed Tammanyized
| Guatemala, where men rule for their
! own aggrandizement. regarding the rich
/ land as tributary TO their pockets. Down
| beyond Guatemala there are a group az
] republquitas, little republics. aIwavs
/
J that country Uncle sam projects q ship
/ canal which is TO take his southern
! coast lire reasonably near the equator.
1 Always Uncle sam and his busy and in-
! satiabie people. tt IS necessary for Mex
/ leo TO emerge from tropical languor and
! the creole dream OF reDose ana bodily
/ ease and learn the arts Of modern civ
/ ilfzation. Her duty. as the northern-most
! Of the Latin-American republics, is TO
! stay the down-push of Anglo-Sax0n civil
] ization. All this has been thought out
/ by the strong man who makes his home
/ from May 70 October IN the proudly dom
1 inant Castle Of Chapultepec.
/ Modern, fconoclastic archeologists say
/ that Chapultepec was not the seat of an
] Actec palace. but rather a burial place:
! there are strange carvings on the rocks
| AZ the base Of the castle, said 10 be huge
! hieroglyphs. The early Aztecs built
| raised road out TO the Hiu OF the Grass
| hopper, which IS what "ChapuItepec~
1 means Perhaps they reveued under the
| iordly and giant Expresses, perhaps they
dld mold the rock as strong place, Of
] all this we Of today know nothing Then
! came the Spaniares and they build here.
/ and one OF their vicerovs Don 1f8tias &c
! Galvez with his king s consent began us
! years ago 10 repair the cd'fce or early
| castle. A second viceroy ~ the ssre
/ name continued the repairs and the story
J King over in Spain that this vice-king in
/ Mexico had ouiit himself q strong for
/ tress, intending 20 rule over the land rs
/ its sole sovereign. 4 bit Of palace in-
/ trigue ana gossip.
/ The Austrian arch-duke, who called
/ himself Emperor ~ Mexico, and his
! wife Carl0tta, we're fond of Ch1rritepec.
/ 10 is grandiy placed and reminded them
! % castle-crowned heights ln Austria
/ They spent much money in rertoTirg tie
edidCc. for during the rer0iutiorarv epoch
/ f0reharded citizens used 10 send out 20
I the castle g. help themselves % doors
and windows and any available build NJ
I materiai 70 Be had 10 the deserted place
The Fompeiian mural decorations which
/ Cre sees while crossing the haleiue gar-
der- q the castle We~a executed ~
/ Cariotta's orders. She loved fhe stately
/ palace on the high rock ara dia much -
I erabeliish IN. From the south cas- stern
/ terrace this royal pair who were making
the adventure ~ Mexico. rissIge iif1 ard
reason and not knowing g. or BOT dsniy
aware ~ the perl ~ ffeir position. lock-
I 20 over tle level country % che dnmed
ard lowered caritsl. Here 1teVrr l.an
( the weak ~ VIII. tire dreamer ard the
/ ambitious. he vie the more amltiors
! planned his 7faEf-a1 erralre Ike created
ORDERS ard stuEsed decorations rrscfrg
( ru1ch Thought on rlbbons and rredsis. for
! he had orcuEht the sided fr1rrrT of
/ royalty O. this lard ~ rerlllfcals go
had, Lri1 esslvIsr cf q rrCnef3T il fln
Amercas bread ard noble isees BE
wc-ld have schools arl ee-F ct che
erunc NorE- eHricrsf-cr- tefH -ltl
/ fe sincerely warts4 - s1-re ME.es
/ r. ail that pertains 10 rigl. lrLtlcr. A ral
knE "a uolf1 have teen. Eff1r
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