Bisbee daily review., 1906-09-19
For Delegate to Congress MARCUS A. SMITH.
MEXICO CONDITIONS AS THEY ARE.

The lOltoWlnS eoltOrldi taken rom the Mexican Herald, published in the City of Mexico, will be interesting to our readers:
 The administration of President Diaz is firmly based upon the approval of the intelligent and industrious peo- pie of this country. It is in no peril from mysterious plotters abroad, or from exiled agitators who proffer i'm possible programs of confiscation and social overturning. Much of the talk made by the self-appointed regenera- tors of Mexican society savers of communism. It makes no appeal to the intelligent workmen of Mexico. and it only causes the people with snke in the country to rally all the moN closely around statesman who has been working, without rest or halt, for thirty years to make this a happier land for the common man.
 Tens of thousands of men have, within the time mentioned, acquired little holdings of their own; they have their ranches .cafetales, small indus tries, and shops, and they have vastly more skill as artisans, an asset ot great value They have something to lose from the inauguration of a period of violence and civil strife. Talk with men of this class and you will find that they are all supporters of order. They deplore the too prevalent un- thrift of the very poor, and themselves offer shining, example of those yir- tues which alone can make a strong and contented nation. The 'clase media" the middle class, is continual ly being recruited from the indus trious and saving. They could not exist under the old feudal regime here, and it has been the object of General Diaz to weaken and gradually destroy that regime. That because it has not wholly disappeared is because there has not elapsed sufficient time e bring about the inevitable results of his policies. Popular education and the cheap press are tremendous fac tors in the modernization of the coun- try, and they work day in and day out.
 The newspapers in the United States, which have magnified petty in- cidents into the proportions of an up- rising against law and order in Mex ico, have not taken the pains to send staff correspondents here to study actual conditions, and to inquire into what has been accomplished in thirty years of unremitting effort to give the common man a fairer opportunity in life. A venerable Mexican gentleman points out that the lower class man has today a much superior position, and many more comforts, than in the so-called good old times. If some Of the people have not advanced it is be- cause of their inveterate idleness and addiction to intemperance. The bright CT men have seized the new opportun- ities, formerly unknown. The old gentlemen mentioned said: "When was lad the condition of the masses was one of the most abject misery The men went about covered with a sheet or a blanket, and, save for that
 were naked. The women had scarcely more to cover them. There was nc provision made for the education oi their children. In my time, I have
 seen a gradual betterng of popular conditions; shoes have come in ana
 warmer and more decent clothing. ana | such is the abundance of work that nc industrious man need be without thu necessities of life. The populace i,
 steadily rising to higher social level
 There is no reason to be discourag ed because life is now, as it alway lhas been, a struggle. It is more of ;
 struggle in cold climates than in ou privileged land. We are not now dis