Show I AFFAIRS IN MEXICO I 1 Matters l in Mexico l have an ominous and sinister look There has been a growing antip antipathy thy to the methods of ot President Diaz No doubt he has been tyrannical no doubt l he e has usurped many powers S 'S that would not be submitted to to in the United S t i States He lias has h had d for his justification the fact that nothing g less less than stringent laws wo would ld keep order in in ui fex co He understands the race like a book r. r When he lie first assumed the place as a's president he lie made madean an appeal to the world to send its strong men there and i in hi i the same appe appeal l he promised Ie that I. I they should be p protected in jn their lives s and their t t. t pI property per x I He He has fulfilled his lis word up to date When the American Am rican engineer a a few years jears ago ago was las killed in d- d the engineer who married a lady in il this city city and and T. T the culprits w were re arraigned it was established t that at th there rc was vas no law in Mexico to punish them Diaz Dja d a law to be made and when it was it was was explained explained ex- ex to him that no law would date qa ba back k to any anytime anytime anytime time before its passage he ordered it to be made macic ex ex ox post facto and had bad the miscreants shot Of c course urse that is not strictly a republican form o of gov government lent but hut it is absolute justice Many lany a malcontent has waited thin thinking that th thi-L thi last term of the president would he be out ir hi in a I little while but to their disappointment he was elected r d again and though he is fourscore years o old dJ he is hearty and strong J In the meantime hi his enemies have been plotting plotting plot plot- l ting and his present r sent danger as ase we ve e look at it is isI I tHat the material of his his' army is much of it crim inal izal When first elected president he lie sent to the mount mountains iris for the that lived in their fastnesses fast fast- nesses promising them safe conduct to an and 1 from tho the ity city They came dow down he lie had a m meeting eting with I S. S them He asked some of oi the chiefs how much thoy made in in t their nefarious rious occupation and and when told 1 his reply was J I i 1 promised you safe e conduct if you ou would come here to see me That promise is is sacred If it desire you shall be conducted eted back to the points from which you came cam in perfect safety But ButI I aye a proposition to to make you J If f you will vill willI I come j ne l here and q join mj my army i r I J will ill assure is r you good goody Pt py y good c clothes ot t good food Hull and your raIling calling will b l l ed as L' L respectable In 11 that way you Jon will wil ha have 0 an opportunity to I restore your lost I t to live respectably an and to die Jie respected If Ii you yu do not please to accept that as I said nid ab abOve ve vor yot- ot shall I have 8 safe fe conduct home homo r but lut 1 I give is ismy you vou m my word word that J I will never or rest until I run down own aI and aid kill the ho last one of you ou Go Good d morning 1 They the thea a army but joining the i army my di did l 1 not altogether J reform form them tiem and now Diaz Dia is 18 uncertain un- un certain how of his sol soldiers he can cn n depend upon lilion We Ve r. r read ad yesterday that one division bi of his his' at aimy my wc went It o over Cl to the enemy and helped to fight light the thc national troops and still W have faith th that t he lie will triumph There Thore is a strain astrain of Indian in n h him 1 he lie is an old soldier he is an accomplished gen- gen cial at when he ho wants t to l carry a a. a point 1 h 6 1 has no nomore more than il had d Napoleon And our OHl r is that lie will vill su succeed in lishing hin peace We Vc look upon the tho threat t of some of the insurgents that they vill have him lim a refugee within a few fow weeks as merca merely merey a a p lee cec of Mexican l braggadocio Yet he lie has a hard task before him hum The rhe mountains of Mexico l are arc filled with defiles alJ and and l fastnesses the climate is js so war warin many n so- so many foods grow spontaneously that with the herds that l roam oam over the thc plains a and d in the foothills a small aI and d desperate band can live a a. long time and they will have hav to be desperate beca because every one of them knows that if caught in arms against the government government govern govern- ment his trial will be brief and his execution tain In the meantime it is good to see sec that our gov- gov eminent is hurrying troops to the border especially especial especial- ly y cavalry and we Ave hope that that border will ill he be beso heso so 10 patrolled that no complaint will cone come from the theother theother other oilier side because any anyone one can see how ho easy t would be to raise in iii the southwest an army of 10 volunteers in a week to raid Mexico l The north row of states of Mexico i is sparsely populated Many Manya a a border man has said it was a shame that that cI country should be l left ft practically idle in the hands of greasers With the slightest incentive tl ey would gladly join not to h help lp Diaz re-establish re his shaking power but to capture those states AndIe Ande And we Ie e do not want them |