The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-06-12
Sefai Centenary of Coronation ~ n Ibefof N Siiliiliarl in nlz.xf..saaEs Esifz
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Many and spectacular have g5een the tFEtzxnpliaa entries of conuuering heroes into the ancienta City of Mexico since # t'as foa1nded six centuries ago as Tehochtitlan the capital of the Aztec r1fr1pire- There were revolutions even fn those ancient days when dusl1y na- five rulers dvrelt in the castle OF Cha pt1ltepec that cypress-c1ad rocky ele- walton which overlooks the City of Mexico When a new emperor was installed in the palace his sccess1on was celebrated by human sacrifices to txl1opoehtHi the Mexican Mars. The victims were borne to the summit or the vast pyTanioal temples where great crowd ass enbled to witness the Festivities The martyrs toI the god uf war were bound by the priests to the sacri6cia1I stone. The servants of God slashed open the breasts of the victims and the bleeding, palpltating hearts, were held up before the image nK theS god of war
 Since then few rulers have achieved power in Mexico without bloody sac-s ridcs to the god of battles. Thous- aiids of Aztees were slain before Cor fez raised the banner over the capital and muItftude of Spanish troops and native soldiers were killed be- fore Urblde,s ragged patriot army en- tered the City of Mexico in 1921 and hauled down the fSpanish flag.
 OF all the triurnphs in the long hiA- tory of 14he City Of Mexico, hcwever the entrance of Max iuni1ian and Car Idttas z1ld1 the capital 5ust half a cen ms emperor and empress, was marked bY the most regal .ron1I and lavish dis play. A halo of romance surrounded the Austrian archduks and the 'neautl- 4uI Belgian prime ess who was his wife and their attempt to found an empire i11 the New World was sl1rro ded with such glanor as to win the al1egfance for g time, of many of their subjects H WAS not longs however. ilntiI the ideal of 1T KibAAr'ta1sss long held but new er realized. attained a new 1oir tn in the minds of 11ekicaus, and f5trned them against the Benevolent despot who had set ID throne in Ire venerable cas-t tile Of Chapuatepec
 Wild and unrestrained enthusiasm on the part of the popu1ace greeted 1raz-zznilisn and CarIotta one that twelfth of June in 1s64 when they rode into the City Of Mexico. s1rrounded uniforms. French Austrian, Belgian and black African soldiers escorted the young emperor and empress, and their. martial music as they matched through q gala 1rrazapn such as is dear to the 11 exicau hearts and led the natives to temporarily forget their hatred of the Br1ngo.
 On that June night half century Eo MaxArnilia1a and his brtte looked
 
 the AztecsEhad planted on Chap taItepec hiu upon city a.blaze wfth Hghts, and gay with unrestrafned feveIr1s and mdrth and apparent joy Ev erythfpg seep1ec auypiciops but the new rulers fad7ed to reckon with the fcklsness Of the Mexican mob ana they forgot, also. the liberty flowing minority led by that great Indian Benfto Juarez- Out beyond the Ter ra Caliente, among the people of the scorchiug platea11s and mountain fastnesses of the North, the ideal of freedom still lived. In vain the butcher Bazains and his European troopa sought to put down the rebeI- lion. setting up precedents Of .scfv- 1lized warfare' for future Mexican leaders Co follow by butcherinh in cold blood all the Jaurisf l1rs soilers and even women and children, faIl- ing into their bloody hands if vff-s Ia and zapata are blood thirsty and uncIvfIized. they are yet more snercf- ful than those gringo soldiers who in vaded thedr country half a century ago