The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-04
TILE TIMES DISPATCH. RICHMOND SUNDAY DEcEMBEFf
mir. Dooley ON Revolutions 2
By FINLEY PETER dunno
Copyright, 1910, by II. r. Dunne.)

Mexican labrln. man is In TIL neigh
borhood Nv two-an, half cints IL year
In goold Half Nv this amount he puts
into q fund TO buy hat ~ N rest y
w TIL family. Th principal occupation
Nv tn worrukin' classes IL settin' down
on TIL ground an lookin' ut Il little
fire.
"Livin is very cheap. as tn country
abounda In pepper threes an there Is
abundance " tn best buildin' 1
lnatceryal aftier lvry hard rain. All
tn Mexican has to do TO build house
is TO shovel 1t out Nv tn road. Whin
rled he takes tn choice " his heart
out to pick out ii good stllretcl ~ mud
to make u house out Nv. Together they
move 1t back onto buildin' site an
markable facts that Hogan brought
back firm Mexico was that TIL beer ~
TIL country looks like buttermilk. He
says TIL. idec was very repugnant to
him at first, but he managed to get
or nghtin' nuytionai drink Is more
satisfactorily In color an will make an
American very earnest. 1t will also
remove inkstains firm TIL clothing.
u don't know what Il Mexican has
to kick about, in a country where
y NO. IS nivcr burdhcn to amy wan
f'r ruler / used to think that TIL
u, head Nv nation, Hinnissy, was
been readin about Mexico in TIL.
pa-apers, know was wrong. TIL
ideel American statesman, accoordin'
TO tvrybody that ought TO know. is
Gin,ral Perforated Dtaz. Wud ye like
TO have brief account iv tn life "
THIS gr-rear an just ruler as / pick
1t out ~ TIL Journals Nv tn day?
Wed, thin: P'raps tn gr-reatest an
most binyfcent ruler In tn wurruld
to-day is Perforated Dla8, tn Prisidint
UP, tn cause ~ liberty an. 1t Is re-
called Nv him that at TIL the age iv
two he pursvoed his nurse with
BOW an arrow. In school his ardent
nature cud not brook tn tyranny Nv tn
f books m mas, ,h 50 he packed up his
lett tn academy. Throughout his
youth an arly manhood he was de.
voted TO his country, an be disor-
dheriy conduck an acc'rate snootin. he
job which he has held down iver since
through tn suiIrages iy a grateful
people.
.in'rai Dias's methods ~ govern
IN IN people Is mild but firm. rte
submits ali questions to thin an saves
thim tn throub,e iv thiukin about
thin be telin' thin tn answers nrst.
he coofts opposition, as ne THINKS IT
improves N craftsmanship Nv his
sojers. Whin a Mexican reels ike
crle.clzin' In goyermlnt he's pertcckiy
iiee TO do 80 If he is in Paris an has
sint f'r his fam'lyA Aven II he IL an
aYowed inimy Nv til govern1int an has
tod his vile that nc thinks Gin'rai
t ,a .L measures ar-rc ADOPTED lords
him. TIL prisidint on'y asks him to
put his head again a wall, shut his
eyes an listen to reason. 1t is tn
In .st.t
wurrnds " aven tn most sesTrc critic
" tn administration TO TIL family,
onless they ar-re " ain -incindyary
charackter.
progress in fiction laws. but we ara
81 lar behind Mexico that we ought to
be ashamed iv Ourselves TIL Dia7
system Is simple In tn exthreme. Ivry
four or five years he takes tn on'y
COPY iv tn constitution in existence
out " tn garrett. 1t is In his own
handwritin'. He's readin' II an ad-
ntrin' its Jus, an wise pro- visions.
whin prisintly Mrs. Diaz hears him eN-
claim: What day is this? why, ats
IN. thirtieth Nv November an here tn
constitution says / am bound to call
tn iltcticn Nv mesiIf on tn foorth ~
October How cud be so f'rgetfu4?
Mother. sc shud have Reminded me.
days more or less rnane? I'll put on
me coat immeeJet4y an go out an
aummon III Electorate to declare their
choice, he says. An on certain day
tn citizens ~ Mexico gather at til,
poiiin places scatthered at INTERVALS
~ three hundherd miles throughout
tn land an reg.sther their Will No
intimydation is practised. Th' prlsl-
dint's ordhers whin man says he is
goin' to vote again tn goverm.nt is
not to shoot or intherfere with him
IN amy way ontil he has eSercized
his suffrage.
",I,vrylhing is left to tn voters to
ar-re opened tn officers in charge 20
through tn nicissry Formally " an
nouncin' tn iliction Nv Gin-ral Diaz
With his majority. Thin tn ballotin'
begins, TIL. reader can guess what a
whtn we tell him that in forty years
TIL gin'ral has niver been ten votes
out ~ tn way. He is always very cain
waitin' f'r tn returns. Wanst tn is
about his daily wurruk as il nawthin'
last lliction our correspondent inther-
viewed him an asst him II he thought
he wud be ilicted. He looked thought
to new buildin acrost TIL sthreet
where a sojer was shootin' at TIL feet iv
a bod carver to make him go up TIL
ladder more quickly an remarked M
~: II cannot tell TIL issue is in tn
eide TIL mex month, as wan mule
afther another brought in it's load Nv
fay'rable returns, he remarked that it
was always safe to thrust tn people.
In tn end their good sense wud as
gogues He remarked on tn exthra-
! ordhinry mortality among orators DUR
in tn campaign an said he supposed
it was Joe to tn exposure " their
lungs to TIL bitin' mountain air. But
he showed absolutely no emotion he
yant slight wink at tn sicrety ~
tn threasury. who had come in to hear
tn returns.
Mexico under Diaz is TIL safest
country IN th'Iwurruld f'r men with
money to invest. 1t Is thruly polised
be. picked body y intelligent polismen
who regulate TIL thrafflc with carbines
Whin an offender again tn law Is cap
tured tn polls do not lam him over
tn head an dhrag him to tn station
house, as they do In this onctvylized
country. Wan " TIL coppers is in
l.sthructed to let him escape. In return
!, fir this sarvtce tn polisman Is given
TIL first shot at him. II he misses tn
! others ar-re permitted to take a crack
| at TIL fugitive criminal. This method
saves TIL expinse w pathrolmen an IL
a mercy to TIL criminal, who otherwisa
iawud be forced to spind th'8night In tn
bad atomosnhere iv Mexican jails
Which ar-re always crowded with
| Americans With delleryum thremens
",'Tn conclusion, to show that this
I remarkable man Is tn gr-reatestruler
/ amy counthrey has iver known, we