Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1903-03-06

EDITORS, do land in Jail, or when their
plants are I, nfiscated, it is beca iso Ii .
bells have Heen published against sui
ordinate officials who are more sensi-
tive than the president.
The chief satirical and illustrated pa
| per of the republic, Eel Hijo del AhuI-
zote'' of the city of Mexico, is flied
each week with cartoons lampooning
the president in every imaginable man
ner, and it's columns TEEN with lar
gu2ge of the gutter against the chief
| magistrate. The paper has been SUP
pressed several times. and some Of the
members of its staff are in prison now,
we believe, but the offenses for which
| it has been punished have been SIAN
ders of officials other than General
Diaz. The latest number of the "Ahui-
zote" at hand. the issue of February
90, has for its first page cartoon i
coarse picture Of the president with the
word "Mocho" (hypocrite )branded on
his forehead, while the "Ahuizote,"
standing by, taunts him in doggerel
verse, apropos of Ash Wednesday:
..Hypocrite thou art and hypocrite thou
hast been,
And hypocrite thou shalt be always,
And at the tomb thou wilt arrive
AS a hypocrite infleXible.
On another page the paper cartoons
the president in three epochs. In 1876
he is represented with sword IN hand
and the cap of liberty on his head,
dancing because of his overthrow OF
the clericals and his election, while the
people applaud. In 1888 he Is repre-
scented as dancing because of the power
he holds by the sword, while the peo-
pie are frowninS. In 1903 he is car
tooned as trampling free suffrage under
his feet, a crown upon his head, and
the sword of ''militarism' at his side
while the people are brandishing their
fists against him.
The reading matter of the paper
abounds with such expressions as
these:
THE citizen, the true liberal. he that
feels in his breast an immense love of
country, never will fail to comprehend
that if the governors of the states are
tyrants, if the authorities Cypress and
vex the people, those governors and
those authorities who Cypress and vex
do not work by themselves alone. There
1f ,icI 10
will of General Diaz.''
In a comparison between Juarez, the
conqueror of MaXimillian, and Presi-
dent Diaz, the mild-spoken "Ahuizote"
says:
mo; General Diaz does not continue
the great work of Juarez, nor can he:
because, between the labor of JuareZ
and the work of Diaz there measures
an abyss. Juarez struggled to make
each man a citizen; Diaz struggles to
make of each man a eunuch. Juarez
struggled to make our land republic;
DiaZ struggles to make our land mon
archy. JuareZ struggled for the ST.
premacy Of democratic principles; DlaZ
struggles for the destruction of those
same principles. Juarez gave US rights;
Diaz has despoiled US of them.
Juarez was the friend of the people;
Diaz is the friend of the aristocracy, of
| the bayonet, and the sabre. The ser
vile press may soil its lips soldering
absurd hymns to this autocrat, but 1t
may not speak of republicanism; it
NAV not speak of liberalism, or of
JuareZ."
The editor of the "Ahuizote" only re-
uuires to learn English and come to
the United States in order to take 4
| front place as the editor of d popu-
list paper. After filling its columns
with unbridled abuse of the president
and the administra ton, and after Ia
menting that there is no more justice
or liberty in Mexico, ludicrous turn
| is given to the "AhuiZote's' howlings
by this comment on a decision of the
supreme court releasing the manager
of the paper from prison, and return
ing his printing office to him:
This act of justice, although tardy,
honors the supreme court, and We ex-
tend our cordial Fluctuations upon the
rectitude with which the court has OPP
Grated in protecting Senior Mateos and
returning to him the printing Office that
was sequestered by the arbitrary action
of an inferior judge.
And vet they say there is no freedors
of the press in Mexico.
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