Bisbee daily review., 1910-09-21


 like some of the big men of his country. has felt the poisoned claw of the undertaking magazine writer, but no man who does anything worth while in this century seems able to escape the yitrollc seavengers who make their livelihood by traducing their betters. His greatest achieve 'ment was to give Mexico peace. Re- lieyed from the turmoil of years of rebellion and revolution, his country was enabled, once he was firmly seated in the saddle to make that progress which has been the cause of so much qualification in late years and which shows us what rich land can do when il achieves independ- pence and puts down inward strife.
 ''The bloody hand of Spain grasped Mexico for three hundred years. The Spanish nobles looked upon the land as a treasure trove. exclusively in. tended for their benefit They worked it and the people till the latter were ripe for any mischief. The long smoldering spirit of discontent broke into open revolt in 1910 exactly one hundred years ago, at Guanajuato. !; when a priest Don Miguel Hidalgo. , led a rabble in revolt which. while i it appeared to have been quickly squelched, finally resulted in break, ing the SpanisA rule Hidalgo was l: speedily executed but the work which he began sees it's fruition to- day
 When the gory head of the curate {, of Dolores was exposed on spikes above the fortress the sight reused another priest. Morelos, to continue the struggle and he called the first national assembly that met on Mexi. can soil, By it independence was proclaimed. Morelos did not live to see the proclamation carried into affect, for in 1915 he shared the fate of Hidalgo.
 ''The revolution by now had i reached the stage when the real leader comes to the front The Lib erator. "Iturbide. again proclaimed in dependence in 1891 and totally de teated the Spaniards forcing the last of the viceroys to surrender the i, capital. Iturbide was proclaimed Emperor and thus was brought to an end the three centuries of Span. ish misrule, called the colonial period.
 As an empire Mexico did not meet success Hardly was Iturbide proclaimed than Santa Ana raised the republican standard at veracruz. The foreigner having been disposed of. civil war ragged. Bewteen 1891 and 1868 there were. according to some historians. no fewer than 300 revolutions. Empires, republics, die tatorships, military usurpations fol lowed one another with amazing rapidity. Both emperors Iturbide and the unfortunate Maximilian, vic tim of a Napoleon idea, were shot to death, the former in 1924, the lat ter in 1867
 With the death cf Maximilian, and the final withdrawal of European control, Juarez became President, but died after being in office but a short time. Four years later in 1876. President Diaz. for the first time as- sumed the highest position in the gift Of his country, and from that moment the fortunes of Mexico be- gan to mend. Diaz is now an octo- senarian. He celebrated his birth day this week on the same day as President Taft He, as much as any person. is entitled to be called the savior of Mexico. and while the fetes now being held are in honor ef the one hundredth anniversary of the start toward independence they are equally intended to prove to the President that he is as much loved and respected as ever, despite the ] attacks made upon him in certain