The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-07-24

celebrate the Fourth OF July.
Indeed. there is measure of super
many believing that Father Hidalgo was
inspired from on high when he save the
cry Of freedom, september 16, 1910
AT the celebrations of the day the
poorer classes shoot off many firecrack
ers and make threats OF killing all the
Spanards there are In the country. and
meetings. make speeches. eat turkey and
enjoy themselves at balls. Let us see
why the people think Diaz was horn
September 15-16. General Diaz springs
their superstitious leanings, he conceived
the idea that II would add greatly TO
his prestige TO have the common herd
believe that he was divinely appointed to
run the country as its savior. SO it Is
believed by the well-informed that he
caused 1t TO be published and talked
saints had selected Hidalgo to bring
about the independence; Juarez. full
blooded Indian. TO reform the country,
and Porfirio DiaZ TO lift II up out OF the
mire and bring about its material devel-
opment- Hidalgo started the movement
for separation from Spain on the 18th
Of September and has been worshiped
ever since for doing so.
Has j. F. Smiths Complaint.
Evidently for tine purpose of securing
similar worship for DiaZ, II has been told
all over the country for many years that
heaven had caused Don Porhrio TO be
born about September 16 1890 so that
he might be filed with the spirit OF lib
erty and duly inspired to carry out the
work started by Hidalgo on that day so
long ago.
The game has been so we'll played that
frequently we hear IL said that Diaz en-
cells both Hidalgo and Juarez in the
patriot business.
General Diaz is good Judge OF hui
man nature and an excellent self-adyer-
tiser. and as a result Of the advertising
there is In Mexico now a rather well-de3
fined belief that Hidalgo and Juarez
Mrs an t9e fSa day agep5s OF the M1st
ing a commission as general manager of
Mexico given hiA by heaven.
II has paid the general to create the
belief, but the work OF correspondents,
like the one who wrote the dispatch,
has cost the governnent-not Dlaz-a
great deal Of money.
the task OF making the world believe
that General Diaz Is now. and has been
for all the years but four since 1876,
constitutional president OF Mexico.
We are told that he was elected presi-
dent in 1875, and that he has been re-
elected At every national election from
when General Manuel Gonzales carried
the election.
Never Was Elected.
The naked truth is that neither Cen
eral Diaz nor General Gonzales has ever
been elected president OF Mexico
IN 1910 Dlaz, after q successful career
as soldier and revolutionist forced him
self into the presidency without even the
form OF an election. and at the neces-
sary intervals has ever since continued
himself in the office or placed Gonzales
there. without a single election
The Mexican constitution is somewhat
like ours in form. and once In four or
SIX years. for the third of n century.
there has been talk in the newspapers OF
national election, but the people do NOT
go TO the polls. A while after each date
set report comes out that General DlaZ
was unanimously or Overwhelmingly
elected president for another term. No
body runs against DiaZ and nobody votes
for him II any ballots are found In the
ballot boxes they were showed In there
by army officers In punches.
That is the kind OF an election that
was lately pulled off in Mexico at which
the candidate for chief of the Ananlas
club says General Diaz was for the sew
enth time chosen president OF Mexico.
Chosen by Whom?
But who chose Diaz? Not the people
of the towns or the country for they
do not take any interest I'm elections of
any kind. and they do not vote
II the sender of the dispatch meant
that General Diaz chose himself for the
seventh time, there can be no denial. for
that Is what took, place