Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-08-02

| by r. w. Connfn.
Belief that the Mexican mess eouid
| be cleaned up only by American iii'ei
vention was indicated clearly, ana WIN
| almost impassioned eloqnehce, III '.io
| book of two English archaeoiosls'''
written shortly before the abaiea'"ii
IF President Porfirio Diaz Passase' y,
| this work by Claiming Arncid an"
Frederick j. Taber Frost. "lhe Amer
can Egypt" a record of traNei aiiion'
| the ruins of Yucatan (pupiisheu ~
| 1900. must have impressed more '''ai
one reader with their evident siileeI, 10y
and outSpoken yigor OF Statement "'
reiterated hope that the nl'eu '7t"'e7
of America may end ontiages per
sonalIy witnessed in a lana Whele
| chattel slavery still prevails, Ctrtdliiis
makes the book we'll worth refeaoihS
at this crisis of history. ana reieao
with perhaps a little allowance ioi
british expIosiyesness. One hears iioiii
| on American archaeologist who mas
| ,,,or,,od for several seasons in 1ueatan
that these English gentlemen, VINO
made some interesting Investigations
=; ,ha hitherto nnexplored northeastern
mart of the peninsula, evineed III .iieii
relationship with the Mexican auti'o
ties rather mere of the feieii''e 7f
it than is always tactfni. lIes 'o
times forgot that they were III i'"o
where he fares best WHO sees
From the moment when first thes
perieneed eight days delay III Tue ny
Of Mexico on account OF reu '"pe -
getting their passports they perpe.ua'S
found themselves rubbed ana .app'u
the wrong way. They were oNereiiai sc"
and UNDERSIGNED at every hos'e"
BEING outspoken Britons, ana no. ~
ia easv-soing Yankees, they saiu
things at this time. and they Went
home To Introduce into their book'
mainly of archaeological interest," oe
nunciations which read IKE letters VI
protest to the Times
Their protests. nevertheless, We're d
nretext for setting forth visions Oh
Maxican chaos reduced to American
order and efficiency. "casandia-hN Inv
ve will prophesy," they say, Let Us
not no rash and attempt to fix dates'
hut nc certainly as day succeeds night
Nexico will eventually form part "a
~ I,nitea states. 1t will probably DC
sooner than is anticipated even by the
clearest- headed men on poth sioes %
the Texan frontier. Win the uea.,i
Cen. Diaz Mexico will be piunseu nv
Kikenney strife Nothing can save he''
your Corrals and Limantours, sou'
Narisehals and Sierras are soou eiio'e''
az cabinet ministers, but they aie ~
the men for the awful task whlch roi
srio Diaz set himself 30 years oa'N
and has brought to temporary PEREZ
-, Tbose who knew Mexico pest
,,now there is no successor TO DidH'
,n,or;can troops will cross the frohiier
- nroteet American citizens ana eapi-
raj: and when they are once al 'i.'
In, s.to,, there as the English have IN
Eevpt. 1t viii be protectora.e, .ne
maintenance of which Will oe III 'no
hest interests of England. Gefiiians
and every other power concerheu. "A teM
wears. a few struggles. blooay CIV
war a rising of the miserable lilui'l a.,
s,aves in all the states, ana MeAieo W..
vote herself inside the feoeratioi' VI
which. despite her struggles she - az
readv so completely geogfapii'e"'
part"
The prevalent idea that lnteiNeii',o'''
should it be forced upon TINS couiiu -
must involve a long ana cosby va,
AGAINST united people IS cohtiaole
nv these authors. "Mexicos great "e'"
nass,, they write, lis that she 10 nv
a nation. There is no true nauoiiai
and moments thought Will sho"
tnat the circumstances of her popuia-
.;on forbid the existence of such. ihey
~, an to disclose that the Spanish MeA-
;oans the white population, now vi
,,;aaa into warning factions, COMPRISE
-, 10 nor cent. of the population. Aet
tho;rs is the only class that mas any
;aea of patriotism. Brave, WIN iii'n'
:. ~. time honored traits OF ne pio-
verbal Spanish don. they are s.
,,oo,,e inexorably marked down ny
fate in the international rehihah. pa
,,.t They have had their day. re ooua.
80, have used it too; but it is gone
pa,,w are the mestizos-the nan
eastes-43 per cent OF the peopie' u or
ont capacity for class coheio"e
united action" the unruieu "iiD
rnlable hotchpotch whom Dia" ~,
nand holds straining in the ie"sn'
dogs of rapine, murder anu
aooth whose cowardice is malcheu
w nv their vicious treaehery.
| tottom are the INDIANS VI 90 ~
nearly pure stock, COMPRISING 80 s;t p ga
cent. "heartless. hopeless, disinhe $50
ens,aved awaiting with sullen pa'ien '', g
| thair deliverauce from the ha'eo ~
Of their Spanish masters, not WIZ, WIN.
loco abhorrent to them because .n.s
have had four centuries in wnich ~
become accustomed to it. To common
| enemy Mexico can never piee n
undivided front Indeed, 1t IS no, 'Uo
| much to say that she can heVei ,' .,
a common enemy; and whencesoese'
tho holt comes it will find Mexico ul
J. ,renarea land of ethnic shfeas ai,.'
catches. slattern in her policy sia..e'' It
in her defence ,.z....,,
In Yucatan the observant hhsi's.. -,
' during their exploration OF the :,
q former civilization, witnessed 'ne e..
sects of the system of slavery unoa.
which large proportion of the pfes s',a :,
aov Mavas are held and of the srauu"'
ancroachment of the Yucateeah .oon-
; ouerors ON the territory of the ih'epe.' uo
= On, tribes of the eastern sectloi' y. -.