Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1916-09-16
HIDALGO RAISED
BANNER OF WAR
106 YEARS AGO
AL NExiCAMS TODAY CELEBRATE
NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE
FROM SPANISH YOKE.
TOLL At MIDNIGHT OF ANCIENT
BELL or HIDALG0's CHURCH
WAS FEATURE OF THE NIGHT.

With the toll of midnight in Mexico
City Of the ancient bell that once swung
IN the httlc chapel of Padre Miguel Iii
dalgo at Dolores. celebration Of Mexico,
independence dav-Scptcmbcr l6-began
throughout the country. airhouah with
ont the pomp and Splendor of the fc~ti-
vitic~ IN wears before the country~ pro
longcd evil strife. The sounding of the
rts~aS>-7in comrwrv61pD@n 0f tEa iirhf or
September Is. 1870. when Senior Dor
Miguel Ilidaleo, priest Of the parish of
Dolores raised the .hanncr of revolt
against the Spanish. and accompanied BY
q few followers, commenced the march
which was to arouse the entire country
against Spain.
This exercise has been the signal IN tn
past for the chief executive of the conn
try. standing from balcony az the Na
tiona palace. to give the ''crito" or war
cry Of Padre TIidalgo. "Niva Mexico {,
Viva IL. Indcpendenriall' followed ~ the
roar Of the multitude.
This custom has hecn observed sine
Mexico attained her Independence from
Spain. with the exception II the years ~
the llap>bure aSurpation. Since the incen
tion ~ the revolutions &c 1910, century
after the revolt Of Hidalco nnd hi, fol
lowers, there have heen fewer celebration
If the day. During the Huerta regime.
the celebration IN Mexico CITY approach
81 those Of former period in dignity and
pomp. althoueh other c,'..- were lacking
Ia enthusiasm The banner which IIiIal
20 bore. cmhlazoncd with the portrait o.
Our Lady WI Guadalupe. the patronc~
SAINT of Mexico. was carried through ,h'
streets at the head ~ the procc~~ion Thi-
IF itself was sufficient To stir ihc~r
iou~ tervor of the Ncxicans.
Padre lIldalgo'S first success. one hun
drcd and sixteen years ago. was the tax
lng IF the important city Of Guanaua
and for several months thereafter the rev
olution trumphcd Taken M last through
the treachcry of one Of hiS suborllnatcS
IIidalco was tried hy both the cccle~ia-ti-
cal and military courts. and after receiy.
inr the penalty Of degradation from hi.
prie>ily office. the sentence Of the ccclr-
'a~tical court. he wa~ executed M Chi
huahIa.
The bell ~ the little chapel which Iii
dalgo used on the nieht hS rNvoluiion
was proclaimed wa~ afterwards taken IL
Mexico City and guarded ~ sacred
relic III the National Palace II ! only
tollcd on the anniversary of the uprising
to call the attention W The people to the
ceremony about To he observed.
The day j. the most important of the
national holidays Of Mexico. tor II COM
memorate~ the first revolution against
Spanish domir; tion - the Americas. and
which. although i la~t.l eleven wears
was the torerRnner Nh .hn-e movement
which later freed Central and South
America.
Since the delicate situation arose be-
tvbn Mexico end the United State>
some of the military commanders have
been careful not to permit any demon
straiion which might result in q disnlav
Of anti-American feeling. The cclehra
rons IN many quarters. particularly alann
the border have consequently lacked ths
presence of the government troops. which
I'm former years made them "a brilliant.