Arizona republican., 1903-01-13

tized and the iron law demands pay IN
advance: the church festival must be
attended, and if he happens 10 nave
any cash on hand it is spent, and so IT
goes. Thus frequent the demands for
money and the dueno has to be called
on frequently to furnish il. so that at
the end OF the year he finds himself
deeper in debt than at its beginning,
especially as he never keeps any ac-
count, depending entirely on the mas
ter or dueno. How can he help getting
in debt, even with the greatest econ
omy?
If the poorest of the lahoring people
of our country could spend one day ana
night in one of these "chozas" he wou1I
conclude he was a prince, almost =
millionaire, at least by comparison. The
common people of this country, as well
as the rich, are supposed to be free
born. and so they are. technically, bu;
practically many of them are slaves.
Under the law they have the right Of
suffrage, if they can read and write
ca wise provision, which our country
could well afford to follow, the same
as the rich hacienda owners, but they
never use that right, as is shown in
the fact that with millions of inhabi-
tants only few thousand votes are
ever cast. even for president. No
doubt a very large per cent of those
entitled to vote don't even know when
the election occurs.
All through the country where we
travelled in our ten days sightseeing
the church was the most prominent of
all things and is the best patronized.
1t would be far better for the United
States if her church people of all de-
nominations would emulate somewhat
this people in their constancy ana
faithful service. In many of the
churches Of not alb the Indians assem-
BILE twice week to recite the Doc
trina Christiana," which includes the
Paternoster, Ave, Credo and the shorter
catechism. There is always a leader,
who knows all these perfectly, so as TO
recite them line by line, while all the
others repeat the same in chorus. 1t is
quite interesting to attend one of these
services.
This province Qmba bur) and par
ticularly Ibarra and surrounding coun-
try, was visited in 1868 by a most de-
structive earthquake. 1t is said that
more than 10000 persons lost their
lives by it. We were shown an hacI-
enda where more than one hundred
were killed. 1t was an occasion or
some festal reunion and Theory was,
ION with the dance. let joy be uncon-
fined.' when no handwriting on the
wall presaged the impending danger.
but about one o'clock al ,night, without
a moments warning, the large adobe
walls fell upon the jewellers ana
crushed them to death Many We're
the evidences we saw of its destructive
power.
We made a very pleasant visit to and
were much interested in the work of
the girls school OF Ibarra. While there
we were shown some of the ruins OF
the former building for this school.
in which several hundred girls were
killed by this earthquake Only a part
of the new building is up so the ruins
OF the old remain Il perpetual reminder
of what has been. They have acted
wisely in building the new structure
only one story high, but it will cover
an entire block when completed
ON one of the most prominent streeT
corners of the city the old ruins OF the
cathedral stand. her massive walls a
monument of the dead. 1t seems not TO
have been touched since that fatal dav
on every hand we saw reminders OF
that terrible night. We We're assured
that many persons were removed. alive.
from the debris OF fallen houses. as
much as five or six days after the fall.
but many more dead. and that before
al the dead were removed and buried
or burned terrible condition of affairs
existed Life to those who had escapen
such a terrible death, was almost I'M