Show M mm MEXICO political policy of the government MEXICAN RAILWAYS how they have hean wisely fostered the catholic church influence f ENQUIRER though mexico has not occupied in enviable position in the current ion of the united state since the tear of 1846 the masterful way in ahu h the lines of bar policy have ben drawn since the death of th emperor maximilian is fast placing her in the race lor the pre ferments of political greato ees against all the world it will be interesting for the of the futar to note the difference between the treatment tha matito races received in thia country and eor own td into the policy of the nation and something om ething at the fora front of the government ern ment the indian race of mexico has produced ft number of men who will take rank among the farat statesman of the earth with the knowledge that in whatever the nation has and the part of the aborigine a IB it need only to glance oter the record of cot achievements to be fully thia the manifest by the maxx ican in the construction of ian railroads gives one of an idea of the genius of the people and from a study of the gunned punned one may get an insight iklo the distribution of power under their construction the firt railroad of mexico the mexican connecting the city of mexico with the eastern seaboard afdera arnz was completed on january 17 and since that time tha railroad build ing of the country has been carried on m accordance with predetermined plan under the lead of the government it was centi dared nece Barr by the leading minda of the nation that in order to give the country the proper outlets of of commerce and to connect the tio bentres centres that troops could be sent to the beat of any insurrection without delay there be wiro systems ef rail reads distributed over the countey very much we find them mcday the mexican railway giving fihs ihs capital connection with the world being at that time already completed an a concession was made in for the building of the mexican central trunk system traversing the middle country from the capital north to 1 texas with branches to the sea embracing abe country on either aide in the year following three subsidy concessions were madcone ma deone to the an national railway passing along the eastern eide of the plateau and coni necking laredo texas with of mexico another tp the international and railway crossing the isthmus of a dia tanca of one hundred and forty miles from ocean to ocean and a third wai obtained by genera arant for the mexican southern from pueblo to oaxaca serving as i a continuation of the mexican centrals Centra lj aloag the middle country to the south tane road aest in order cros sea the country from the harbor at acapulco Aca to vera cruz through the capital and u known as the from banson arizona to guaymas Gua on the western beabra d the honora railway given easy to thu coast on the northwest ahila the gulf railway acovera baat to alvarado louth of vcra cruz in order therefore to complete a arand national of railways crossing alie country at convenient distances from sea to cea baet and west and with lines running parallel ditl and apar he coast on either aide ono in the middle of tha country and one ou each side at either edge of the table land it is only necessary to complete the line along thy western edge ot the plateau and that is the work now being conducted by hon john W young the new road commences at new mexico and passes aboh the western edge of the mexican table land for sir hundred miles making connection on the way with the mexican central IT stem at chihuahua city when it to the pacific coast at topolobampo baa clience paralleling the coat to guay mas each of these loads receives a considerable subsidy from the government but when th contract for constructing the mexican northern pacific railway was entered into the executive declared that no more railroads rail roada should be subsidized ia the republic the entire mexican railway system was there are ether railways heing built in mexico but only those mentioned in ara subsidized by the government another achievement of which mex acang are quite as a of their railway building ia the heroic manner in which the government has nut and tho dominating influenza of the catholic church by a number of movements covering the years from 1857 to 1873 a truly praiseworthy evolution was carried forward in the ee public in this respect under the tion in great part of benito pablo juarez a full blooded indian at the commencement of alie move ment for independence under the ent constitution the catholic was established religion of mexico aa of spain and the tribunals claimed the right to interfere with the administration of justice the landed properly ot tha church amounted to about half of all the real estate in mexico and the country was fairly enthralled thrall ed in darkness under the recognition of th president juarez WM enabled in 1861 to carry into effect an act abolishing the church tribunals and confiscating fis cating the land of the church to the bervice of the state but the latter movement was not accomplished with of england spain and france armies ere at once put in action to maintain the rights of their citizens involved in her civil war the protest of the united states could not induce the withdrawal of the french but england and 8 ain received a settlement and called off their forces it tumid out that the reparations of tha wrongs of hia were only a pretext under which napoleon Napole cn III wished to in alred gitary monarchial a roman max ii niliAn of austria accepted the crown but was defeated and shot in by the republican party under juarez with the exception of slight internal during the nine years SUL the execution of maximilian the civil authority las been supreme in mexico and catholicism and militancy alike have been relegated to the background but alon with the readiness to haro ic action there runs in the mexican char acter a childlike end a prone nes to resort to expedients nt ut all measuring rea suring to of the all this h however to the the free in stil ul ions of mecito do DOIT for on a paper constitution abut the history of her struggles for independence pen dence and the heroic efforts to hold tie the church show their to be laid deep down in the hearts of the people what ws see here to day simply indicates the present elatus of a peo als in the of a studied OTO lution to civilization 5 at the rate of progress made in the last fifteen years throe decadena will place mexica with her friendly relations with tha united states her unbounded re ourtcea our cea and the of her people to ent in the front rank of the great powers of the earth the natural trend of commerce is tos ward the north for she needs our machinery our agricultural implements and ahe products of our manufactories manu factories and sh has to exchange fur these unlimited wealth in lead silver and gold while her increasing production ol 01 coffee cocoa sugar indigo and cochineal fran of climate i cannot be supplied in our own country in at all our needs there is however anat ground to anticipate and one may further judge the fruitless effort of 1885 aa as from the negotiations noar eo long pending that she does not see the greatest good to her om merce in reciprocity pro city but to whatever turns the multifarious considerations of diplomacy may lead this one thing is clear mexico ia a coming country L A willoa ti mexico via demin N M |