The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1916-03-23
WHAT OF MEXICO

Only briet time atter tne furl-
tans landed in New England and the
Cavaliers in Virginia, the steady ex-
termination OF the Indians began. II
IS easy to believe that most of the
wars with them might have been
avoided. had not the pale faces for
gotten to be just but from the first
the rule was that the Indian had no
rights that the white man was bound
TO respect and the sentiment of the
world has been that no barbarous
race must stand I'm the path Of the
worlds advancement.
The spaniards went to Mexico.
First by atroclous cruelties they sub
dued the native people and then for
two hundred years proceeded TO cor
rupt them.
Then the breath of liberty swept
from our country over that country
and the mongrel race that had grown
up there awakened to the cry of
Freedom" arose and shook of the
semi-serfdom that had become nXod
upon It and imagined that Il was
free. It's liberty was but license; II
had oyerthrown Spanish rule, but II
had taken on no sense OF the rospon-
siblllty which should attach to the
conduct OF free people.
The result has boon that. except
during the few years when the iron
Dlaz held them down, for a hundred
and fifteen years the Mexicans have
been engaged principally IN convert
ing naturally lovely land into
hell.
Diaz aaw the imposslbllity OF ever
maintaining staple government
there without u substitution OF rae
os and 80 urged the men OF the
worlds strong races TO como. prom
Using them protection for life and
property. while his strength held
out ho held his country Lowell. but at
last he was crushed and now for
four years his countrymen have been
busy In undoing what he had done.
In those four years not one battle
worth the name has been fought, but
there has been wholesale looting and
no end OF assassinations-the whole
land seems TO be sown with dragons
teeth and as soon as one head Is
bruised another springs up, what
dinoyent Is the situation. and what
more hope does Il carry than II did
through most OF the years OF last
century?
Is the refined barbarism there any
different In effect from that which
under our flag mas been pushed
aside?
Fourteen out OF every nfteen OF the
inhabitants are but semi-sorfs; Il
would be mercy TO them TO place
them ON reservations for the rest
OF their natural lives, for they lack
every element that goes to make up
u self-respeotable race, and the mass
OF them really aw3hen the pity OF
those who know their condition.
We do not want that country; we
nave most serious race trouble of
our own; moreover during the com
Ing fifteen years we are liable to have
an addition OF distracted people from
the present battle ground OF Europe
which viii strain the assimilatiye .
power OF our country TO the limit. .
We think our government even now
should be making arrangements to
turn a part of the food upon other
coasts.
But the confusion In Mexico must
cease, or we shall in the near future
receive a notice from some of the
powers OF the old world that il we
do not propose TO establish order
and protection for life and property
in Mexico they win.
The time has come when some real
statesmanship for Mexico must be ex-
eroised.-Goodwin's Weekly.