The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-05-16

Editor The Tribune:
In view that in your column. To-day IN
History" in The Sunday Tribune. mention
was made of nomentous historical
event OF the entrance OF the army INTO
Puchla Mexico, and the abdication oil
MayimiIian a little additional light upon
that evenfful day and those preceding II
may be opportunc:
on May 8. 1856. the battle Of Puebia,
Mexico. was fought. the attention OF The
world was first drawn lo most "onucr-
full man, and the history OF an ehtlrs
country and interesting people cnanScu
its course. The man was Gen forhrio
Diax and the forces engaged in tho bat
tie were an army Of France brought
across the Atlantic to bolster up an cIl,-
pire on the western continent ana N'a,l H"aI
uutecr army composed of bareiooteu
McXIcans armed with old-fashloned MUS
kets. squirrel rifles and machetes nam
mcrcd out in country blacksmith shops.
Before that date Mexico had been
cruelty governed FOR three centuries by
Spain. and cursed for forty-hve years
with continuous revolutions Wnlle usf"S
to govern herself under the forms oil q
republic PATTERNED after that OF the
United States. AS result the NE OF
every inhabitant was one OF hopeless ms
cry, and in the early sixties port'oh OF
tho Mexican aiistocracy which mad al
ways inclined toward Il monarchy. los.
ing hone OF pretending TO lose nope OF
maintaining the republic. took anNaht@aGc @
of the struggle going on between 'Sgc5 s
t{ons In The United states and invited
Macmillan. an Austrian prince. 10 es-
tablish an empire in MeSico and occupy
the throne. 1 ro,.i,r-
small hopes OF attaining more than Duca' c
power In Europe. MaXimilian consented.
and supported by the pope and Napoieol,
III, crossed tho ocean accompanied ny ="
'T,urJia1 Prnrsiaenf Jmarez. a full blooded Indian
then in the presidential chair oppoSeo VIZ
iu,asion with all his power. but hlinsSiI
81 LAWYER and lacking the support o, 'iIs
land holding arisiocracy and the aid OF
able generals in the carly days oil lne
war. he was driven step BY step 'iTL.i T,.
to The Rio tirandc near r. ri ho,o ra5o ~ cross
Inc river and ask the protection OF lhs
United states government ,,,,,.,
Pafirio Diaz, then young ann DIR, DIE 80,
officer I'm The Mexican army, came "
from his native state in the SCUM NJ t's
head OF a small patriot nrmV; ana VII VII !
characteristic viGor attacked the lnpep,aa, rSa
Frcnch army. superior I'm numbers AZ"
ad,,;n,,anf 10 hls own Mt Pucbla, and at'-
- desncyatc lighting by his iroopS anu -
disnlav OF gcncralship on nus own ,1. "a
that surprised himself anG ronnb a,d o'H Ills IN
known mixed blood routed the European
army and took tne CITY, -. r,,pbnut
Following up the adEantJ9Ee Gnnnral
nauss The army COMMANDED bY peueI pe ti
Dlaz marched rapidly west driving ever .py
hing before It. and in few days onos-
came Mpxinilian.s army y,tna ana 'o"> p''
Sshe Tbe fail and execution Of Maxi Maxlm,,1on snon
and i his renegade Mexican otf.ocrs ,tasnn,en So9n
followed and the republican, GoHe'i'II,,en' n,az
under rsRnit suateo Of his success on The 9Th Of
May al Pueblo qnS Ssaame the sve@rd CENTRAL a gure
and idol in the country o.., ..oIrs,
He urged Juarcz 10 stand hrm asS.ms, 1,.ne..
ali the m powerful Influences MAJ niSr wery !,
broueh, 10 bear 20 seT% r TrN,I''ars'i HoXai usnr
,1sy' n.r at's HAT rosnted tro"r his urging nm nm
n,e,. nv since discouraged and always WIZ