The daily Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1916-1917, 1917-03-11
SAYS MEXICO NEEDS
ANOTHER D|Az RULE
Mrs. E. c. Moore, Widow of
u. S. Consul General,
Knew Former President.
THERE THREE YEARS
Columbia Woman Tells of
Country's Degeneration in
Last Administration.

The flower OF Mexico mas gone
driven out by the weeds and nettles
of lawlessness and intrigue. The
gentle folk of the Mexican capital are
no more, and with them has gone the
contentment of a once sunny peo-
pie. Only a second Diaz, who will
rule with a Just but iron hand, will
save Mexico from becoming an eternal
maelstrom of disorder and blood
shed. This is the belief of Mrs. E. c.
More, widow of consul-general to
Mexico during the administration of
Porfiro Diaz and one of the most in
innate friends of the wife of the Mexi-
can president.
Before his appointment as consul
general, Mr.. More practiced law in
Columbia and built the first elegant
home in the city on the site of the
present Bowling residence near More's
Switch. His widow lives at 1109 Broad
way.
although President Diaz was prac-
tically a monarch and held all Mexi-
co under his control, the nation has
never enjoyed such peace and pros
perity since his reign" says Mrs.
More. "He established schools and col
leges for the uplift of the people and
was constantly alert for their well
fare. Six months after he came into
office he had driven all the bandits
down from the mountains and pledged
them into his rurales. During his
thirty years of administration there
was little trouble from outlaws.
"The Mexican people are insincere;
but during my three years stay this
characteristic seemed to run in the
opposite direction now attributed to
them. They were polite to a fault
and fiattering at all times. The Mexi-
can servants in our home were models
of industry and were never known to
steal.
"A great change in the attitude OF
Mexicans towards citizens of the
United States has occurred. President
Diaz made every effort to encourage
American industry. Americans were
feted everywhere. AS the representa-
tive of the United States. my husband
was furnished a private car in all his
travels and was met at the station
by the mayor and brass band at ev-
cry stopping place.
Some of the most pleasant days of
my life were spent in sunny Mexico
and 1 sometimes weep when I think
of the depths to which she has fallen.
The Mexicans are absolutely incapa-
BILE of ruling themselves but would
be a happy and contented people un-
der the rule of stern but sympathet-
ic administrator"
Her intimate acquaintance with
Porfiro Diaz and his wife leads Mrs.
More to emphatically deny that the
president was a tyrant and that his
people were unhappy during his long
Huerta was mon
ster and Madiero was too gentle and
refined to properly govern the nation,
she says. The true manhood and
womanhood of Mexico is thing of the
past and not until ruler of the
strong character and firm hand of Diaz
shall come will the nation return to
Its former state of contentment. 1t
Is only the lack of a guiding, force
full leader which has caused the de-
generation of the Mexican. During
the stay of Mrs. More in Mexico City,
that METROPOLIS was one of the best
policed cities in the world. Cruelty
and treachery were not common at
tributes. Dogs were allowed to sleep
in the middle of the sidewalks while
the kind-hearted pedestrians walked
around rather than disturb them. she
says.
Nine Alice Iturbide. daughter-in-
law of Augustine Iturbide, former
emperor of Mexico. was also an inti-
mate friend of Mrs. More She has
many friendship letters and gifts from
Nine. Porfiro Diaz Another friend
was maid of honor for Empress Car
Iotta.
Mrs. More was born in ST. Louis.
Her father was Judge Logan Hunton
United States Attorney under Taylor
and Fillmore. She received a part of l
her education in France and while
there saw the Empress Eugene and
the little prince. She celebrated her
birthday on the battle
field of Waterloo and was in France
at the outbreak of the Franco-Italian
war.
Shortly after the death of her hus-
band ten years ago. she came to CO.
lumbia where she was Dean of Wom-
en- at Stephens College for three l
years She is related to some Of Co |,
lumbia's best known families.