The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-12-06
MEXICO MINUS DIAz
The Progressive President
Will Soon Resign.
HIS NOTABLE DEE S
Mexico's Relation with United
States.


like to y Mexican of today to have an
other than Porfirio Diaz his president?
1t is said that the chief magistrate will
shortly resign his Office in favor of Lin
antour. He has held it more than a quar-
ter of a century, save the brief interreg-
mum of Gonzales in 1880, and that in
trade and prosperity. Men who past
middle age have never voted for any
other candidate for the high Office. He
is of ihe herois age, the revolutionary
period of his country's history. He is one
of the worlds strong men.
Not in the list of Latin republics that
have frequently revolutions and wars is
Mexico found. she has now remained
fairly peaceful longer than the United
States has ever done since the founda-
ton of z. S. republic. Diaz was elected
president in the same year as Hayes
Since then the states have had seven pres
idents to Mexico's one; the former had
two presidents assassinated-
DiaZ is a soldier. When, after alarms
and fights and far refugees; after hid
ing in the mountains and frequent es-
Gaping from the foreign troops that Max
imilian brought; after removing the pa
triot capital from place to place. even
as the U. S. congress had fitted from
town to town almost a hundred years
earlier. the foreign legions of Macmillan
left him to his fate. and Mexico was
easily conquered. Diaz was Jaurez' s
most trusted general
Jaurez, the ''Liberator." was one of the
ablest native Americans of the CONT
nent. He was a pure-blooded Indian.
His features, devoid of beard, shrewd,
kindly, keen. are as familiar in Mexico
as George Washington's are in the United
States They are an Indians characters
tic features Diaz is of Spanish blood,
but through his mother, he. too, derives
from brave Indian stock. He was born
in Oaxaca, and was destined by his par
ents for the church. Priests have played
a large part in the liberation of Mexico.
from Hidalgo and Morelos down. But
Diaz himself selected a lawyers robes
TO wear He is now only seyenty-three,
vet he was enrolled in the Mexican war
with the States in 1916, though he took
no active part in It; he fought in civil
wars against the corrupt Santa Anna,
was a chief of brigade in the war with
Macmillan and took a glorious share in
the defense of Puebla, ever since cele-
brated on May Sci cinco de Maya"
When Juarez became president he drop
ped militarism as completely as did Gen.
Grant He was known as the Black
coat President" Diaz has been as in
sistent upon peace and it's interests.
Mexico has a constitution closely model
L.
ity Her silver money is a perplexity be-
cause of its changing value, but for some
months now commission has fixed a
standard of exchange for gold at the be-
ginning of every month.
Consul Kaiser at Mazatlan has just
reported at the state department upon
Mexican trade. He says that Mexican
merchants are 20 conservative that fall
ures are almost unknown.
Mexico has over 12.o0o zoe people, over
1000 miles Of railways, revenues Of more
than $50. oo0 900 Mexican, or about half OF
that sum in our money, and an annual
foreign trade of more than s2eoceo.ooO
silver. Her foreign debt is only about
IS per person: her total debt is, on
gold basis, about slSo,0oo,oOe
Mexicos army is $1,000 men-iarger than
ours before the Spanish war. She has no
navy, and needs none, save few reve-
nue. cutters; the United States protects
her from foreign aggression
The relations OF the two republics are
most friendly. Mexico has long ago Tor
given the war of 1876. which all know TO
have been more the fault of corrupt poll
ticians in Mexico than of her plain peo-
ple. And since the time when, at U. 8
command. Louis Napoleon hastily recall
ed his French troops from Mexico and
the cardboard Empire" Of Macmillan
fell 70 pieces, leaving the Mexicans their
own masters, they have known better
than any other nation that the Monroe
dnct rine is ..loaded.''