The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-11-13
STILL HOPE FOR
ISOVEhTHROW
Mexico. Declares creelman,
Wishes to Be Good Neighbor
to United States, and Trusts
in Friendly Intentions Of
This Countrywide
Broils Magrihed.
BIZ JAMES CREELiAN.
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New York. November I2.-Only
crooked little minds which seethc and
boil over easily can suppose that the
insults offered the Americans By rowdy
students In the City of Mexico and Qua.
dalajara represent responsible Mexican
sentiment, or that the government OF
President Diax would directly or in
directly countenance acts of hostility
to the United States.
One has but to remember that Mexico,
with population of l6,0o0,QOo inhabi-
tants and thousands of miles of coasts,
does not maintain a navy, to realize
how greatly the Mexicon republic has
trusted and still trusts In the friend
ly and ood-neighborly Intentions OF
the nation which Numbered out tho
Monroe Doctrine against the Holy AL
lance when monarchical Europe threat.
ened to overthrow the newborn in
dependence of the Mexicans.
Instances I'm History.
Yet. 1t was a she'll fired by an litter
ate Austrian gunner that wrecked the
matchless Parthenon. and II was the
snarling of two thick-skulled monks
over the head of a nail in Bethlehem
that brought on the Crimean War. in
which four nations STEPPED themselves
that sensible Americans shall recog-
nize and understand the burning NAL.
ice which prompts would-be Mexican
reyolutionists and blackmallers, and
their scribbling accompiices, to seize
on, twist and distort everything that
can stir UP trouble between Mexico and
the United States. or misrepresent the
great policy of peace INDUSTRY aud
prosperity through which President
plaa has led his-people out OF D pest
of 1ncessaat war. bankruptcy aud law
less degradation into, the liIe of a
tranquil, progressive and respected ma
ton.
1t is hard to read in the United
States of an American flag being torn
to pieces and trampled under foot In
the streets of the Mexican capital
when one does not realize that it was
done by a crowd OF unthinking boys
whipped UP to the act by the very men
who, only little while ago, werc try
ing to stir UP an instruction against
the Mexican government. 1t is hard
too, for Mexican to realize that a
Mexican was publicaly burned alive in
Texas without a. trial, and that the
spectators calmly watched his dying
face as he writher In the flames with
out taking into account the fact that
the victim was thus savagely put to
death because he was the self-confess-
ed murderer of woman, and not be-
cause he was Mexican; that the scene
of the barbarity was fifty miles from
the nearest railway, and that to our
shame be said, it is not uncommon
for Americans to lynch their own fell
low citizens.
There is no frner friend of the
United States than President Diaz, yet
he would be the first to resent an
affront to Mexican nationality
Enemies of Dias.
1t is the enemies of Diaz and his
administration who seek to foment
anti-American demonstrations. Fana-
tics, baffled ofiice-seekers. exposed and
punished rascals, revolutionists who
exhaust their little plans In local riots;
threadbare,, mounting lawyers: shall
low, sensational writers; disappointed
and bankrupt financial adventurers and
downright blackmailers, have Joined
together In sort of bushwhacsing COM
paign against the great and wise
statesman whose strength and sanity
have wrought n nation out OF political.
social and economic chaos.
Every little political rumpus has been
magnified into an armed uprising, por-
tending. revolution. Every time an edi-
tor seeking to stir up the old Mexican
spirit of disorder has been clapped In
jail, the incident has been pictured
forth as the oct of ogre-like tyranny
Finding the government Of Diaz too
strong and able to be disturbed by the
old and almost forgotten methods OF
MeXtco's guerrilla days, the agitators
shulked into the United States, and,
at a safe distance, began to damn the
name Of their own, country.
Presently we were RECALLED with
yarns about slavery In Mexico. the
beating to death of HELPLESS Indians
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