The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1913-11-06
THE sentative RACE

ism which finds excuse for Mexican
d%eviltry and protest against interven.
ton, on the ground that the Mexieans
are a proud and a sensitive race. What
have they to be proud abouts How
comes it they are so blooming sensi-
tive that a suggestion of reason in
suits themf
This is an age in which lei and ma
lions have to back up their preten-
sions with facts. All ages partook of
that popularity, of course; but this,
doubtless, more emphatically than any
that has preceded it. The man who
goes about with a chip on his shoulder
has to sustain the challenge with pow
er-or lose the chip. The boaster gets
called. You have to show proof for
the faith that is in you. You have to
make good.
Has Mexico ever done thati In the
forward march of all earth's races,
Mexico has moved little from her sta
ton in the seventeenth eentury-and
that step is backward. Every human
attribute that proves the progress of
mankind has been seornfully rejected
in Mexico. Every development of her
own great resources has ben made by
foreigners, against the bitter opposi
tion of M~exieans, and at the expense
IF tba Efa and traaS,,ra of tbooa con
ferring the benefit. Every mile of
railroad in that accursed land is a
monument at the graves of Americans
who died by treachery. Every bridge
is a testimonial of American energy
and enterprise, and it is bathed in the
blood of Americans of high and low
degree from foundation stone to road
bed. Every mine worked by machin-
cry better than that known to King
Solomon yves its output to the brains
and the heart of Americans. Every
ranch that brings chuck instead of
chaparral has been redeemed from the
waste by the Anglo-Saxon. And not
a iOdd nUA q btidSC HOi a mluC III a
farm today, bettered by Americans,
but is the scene of outrages, of theft,
of midnight surprise and MONDAY
slaughter by the very people who must
chiefly benefit by the improvement.
What have they to be proud off,
Their bloodf A more varied mixture
than that of Hayti. OF kinship to
Spainf That is something to apollo
gize for. Of their elimate2 They
didn't make it. OF their crimesf
There they are supreme.
Chilly students of races lifted their
piping trebles in 1898 to the effect
that the S%paniards were a proud race,
a sensitive people. Uncle Sam whaled
them from the Philippines to Havana,
and it did them a world of good. Spain
is better today han it was before
the discipline. Spaniards had good
material in them. Under the old
regime, under the rule still dominant
in Mexico, they didn't need to make
good. 1t was sufficient if they flung
their mantels with scornful gesture
over the shoulder, seowled at the bet
ter race, and strutted away.
But since the United States blew
them out OF the ocean and OF the face
of the colonial earth, the Spaniard
has strutted less, and worked more.
And his national level is higher in con-
sequence. The people of Spain are
more prosperous, more happy, more as
piring for worthy ideals, more surely
destined for the. rewards of solid eff
fort, than they nave been since the
union of CASTLE and Leon.
What Mexico needs is the awaken
the chatter OF arms in its plazas, the
ginger-laden air breathed by American
soldiers who can build and who can
break; whose mothers were pure be-
fore they were proud, and whose faith
ers filed homes instead of hospitals.
Nothing could SO discourage the fixed
oh0 AA0OAoSA 1ACAANdu udDil VI mlu-
night murder as fifteen minutes in a
locked cellar with some American who
has seen the work OF his hands, the
scheme of his brain suffer from the un-
s~peakable treaehery of the Mexican,
exercising the national Mexican trait
of perverse and eowardly destruction.
Nothing would so convince the ninety
per cent of Mexican common people
that the ten per cent had been four
flushing, as the spectacle of that ten
per cent taking the medicine that
Weyler got in Cuba.
All this chatter about the ''proud
and sensitive race is silly-or erimi-
nal. 1t tends to the survival of the
unfittest. 1t retards the inevitable