Bisbee daily review., 1915-07-31
SPAIN LAUDS GREAT MAN OF OLD MEXICO
 DON PORFIRIO DIAz
Many Complimentary Editorials Seen When Diaz Passes; Spain Had Especially Close Ties With the Once President.

With the Once President.
 MADRID. July 30.-The sympathy and the warm regard of the Spanish people for the late General Pordrio Diaz, it seems, could have scarcely lNeen greater had he been a Spaniard. The newspapers of the capital are filled with laudatory expectations of the things the former president of Mexico accomplished for his native land and refer to the close ties of friendship and mutual understanding which always bound him to the moth CT country"
 The morning after his death El Inn parcial, which is almost official in character, published a telegram brief ly announcing the demise of the great Mexic@. Under the telegram was printed an editorial note. At the moment Of closing the forms of this edition, we received the above tele. gram. We have not time to render due homage to the good friend of Spain who has just died, but we shall do so tomorrow It were a debt Of gratitude for our country to celebrate the praises of this man who loved it SO sincerely"
 True Co its promise, Fl lmparcial printed the next day a lon. article by Mariana de Cavia under the heading. "A Sketch of Porhrio Diaz," which is | full of od od,,,frotfrr, ,f tt,, d,od -.1a;,.
 and statesman. The old anecdote of ! Bismarck is recalled-that the Iron 1 Chancellor said of Mexico's man of iron He is a man who should have | been a German, and my successor" ."
 To this story de Cavia adds another.
 less familiar to illustrate the pride
 Of don Parhrio in what blood of his
 was Spanish and in the common
 tongue of the new and old Spain. ! According to the story the shopkeep-
 CTS of the city of Mexico were won't | to entice the trade of the many for. 1 eigners in Mexico by printing their ] signs il French. German of more of- 1 ten "Gringo" English. On one of ! his daily walks, the fact struck the ! Dictator as incongruous that the
 shopkeepers of Mexico should print ! their signs in anything but the 1 tongue of Herman Cortes-and his own. On his return to "Cadena s. as his private residence was known l to every shirtless peon of the land he
 sent for whenever happened to bear
 the designation for the moment of | competent authority"
 l My dear Governor" the president is quoted as saying, fin a weeks time. l want all the signs in this city in our national tongue" The Governor ] objected that foreigners and foreign companies had the right to have their signs and their advertisements in oth- CT tongues than Spanish, and that re- speeding the MeXicans themselves, ! there might be constitutional dificu- ties in the way of the presidents order
 What you mean is that such an order smacks a little too much of 1 tyranny" unused the Dictator" Very
 well If a Mexican citizen wants to use a foreign language in his adver- Using, l cannot constitutionally pre- vent it. But you. as the head of the municipality, can levy a tax on the luxury of using foreign language a tax of or about four pesos per sign. say. You know my wishes, my dear Governor the matter is in your hands Are We living in Mexico, or in Babel?"
 For more than thirty years" writes de Cavia, he gave Mexico peace, and with peace a wonderful de- yelopment of the fertile riches of the country and a solid responsibility be- fore the world. What an unhappy change since his departurel The an- archy in which Mexico is plunged to- day is conclusive proof-do doctrinarie opinions and subjective criticism laid aside-that don Porfrio knew his com pleX and miXed-blooded people better than anyone else-that he knew their oyerweening propensity towards in- ternal revolution well enough to apply to them this homely phrase, a favor. ite of his when speaking of his com patriots, When the bars of the corral are let down. the colts go astray