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Show Salt Lake has plenty of fine private hospitals, but no public hospital. A stranger, or destitute or friendless person, taken suddenly ill, is liable to die, or at least, to suffer for hours, before a sufficient amount of red tape can be unwound to enable the afflicted one to receive humane attention. at-tention. Generally, a city of this size, has a public hospital, where a person can be sent at once, and every policeman and nearly every citzen knows how to proceed to remove the sufferer without delay. This city has nothing of the kind, and a sick woman, a few days since, remained, In great suffering, in the public reception room at one of the depots of the city for many hours, before assistance as-sistance was received. Why canont the city make arrangements, with one or all the hospitals, for directly receiving needed cases, and for attending at-tending to emergency calls? It would simply be a work of common humanity. THE ABSORPTION OF MEXICO. In Munsey's-for the present month Mr. Walter F. McCabe expresses the belief that a century hence Mexico will be in American hands, commercially commer-cially If not politically. He tells how more than $400,000,000 of American money is invested in Mexico, in mines, in lands, in manufactureies, says the peon's condition has been bettered by the industrial advancement, and looks forward to a time when (after the death of Diaz) there might be revolutions and attempts at confiscation of American property, which would make trouble, trou-ble, and though he does not anticipate annexation, an-nexation, he does expect that country to be eventually absorbed by ours. The only mistake he makes is in not making clear that the country is liable to be absorbed by Americans, but not by the American Government. That is, American ideas and ways will eventually govern Mexico as an independent state, not as a part of the American Amer-ican Union. Mexico has some 13,000,000 of people. Of these perhaps 3,000,000 are intelligent men and women. The rest are mongrels, who are much more concerned about getting the simple food they eat and a few pecos to play monte with than about the Government over them. If they can get food enough for the week by one day's work, they rest the other six. They have within them no elements of progress. Diaz realized this Vhen he first attained to power and not only invited in-vited but offered rewards for the men of enterprising enterpris-ing races to come to Mexico to help awaken and develop her resources. Tens of thousands accepted the call, and it will not be long until they and their children will outnumber the intelligent natives. The masses can be voted by droves for the highest bidder. Well Imagine ten years hence, Diaz being gone, that an insurrection may be started, what will be more natural than that the Americans join with the liberal faction, put down the insurrection and take charge? It is almost certainly manifest destiny. |