Show I Jp DIAZ V. V Diaz of l i l must in be a savage a-savage say ge U e days clays At 80 SO years of looks Jak f f ack k upon his is life calculates what he lie has done lone for I Hn Ki p t ve land lind then c contemplates the rising of people all around him him clamoring for his over- over ro roV- roV j all that too in the name of liberty I. I S Surely rely 4 h be h be in a mood th these sc days das and and his hisT T t y thoughts must be in ill this vein In my youth i IL offered my life over oyer and over oyer iLY y country When al at t last the pr presidency came cameto j to me tn the country was worse than a wilderness i I s for it was vas deep in de debt t its industries were dead 1 i-ft i t credit c. c edit t was gone an and t the people eople were lost in ig- ig f p van an e rence lorence aIl and I undertook its ti regeneration as a holy truit and I have had 1 one ne star to follow sin since e and that has been t d tit ty I t. t j They The r say I I. I have haye been el cruel crupl el Is the surgeon I t cruel cruel- when he opens and drains a a vicious ulcer V They sayI have trampled upon tI cir liberties they hey t c cannot dist distinguish 1 between liberty in its h holiness liness iness and license in its vici viciousness I I I i built built schoolhouses to 16 enable the masses to carn learn to be fit t to be free I gave the thc land th the I d- d oid needed eded to enable indu n industry try to clear away the wreck wr ck of sixty years ears of misrule I have been merciless mer- mer t ciless cHess tp th p criminals in m to those thos who wanted anted tace and jid protection I have mad mado life id a nd prop prop- erty safe through the the length and breadth d l pi Mex Mex- lex- lex ico I paid have have paid her debts and redeemed heir hel cre credit it ud d l national honor T I have gained for h her herthe r the the re re- sr 1 et of the Il w world ld I have ha caused her resources u to toUt tobt bt Ut utilized until unfit she ib is rich When gt j gues gues and ud loafers and have sought to influence ence the h horde rde to vote so o as to undo m my work I have c pu put th them m clown down anti and havo hav done it for the sake ake of uJ ti the people vo wo are slow slowly I working up to a Con Condition on- on to be free Lice Where a po poultice has lias been pos sible I 1 I aYe applied the poultice where the knife has hn been been- necessary why necessary-why l why y I J was trained as as a sol soldier so f dier j r in my 11 OUt l aud and have never yet shrunk from I d di 1 t I ins mg ii C g my l duty ty I Let u Let 3 any one remember wh whet t l i Mexico xi o was le t l lL I L undertook tp too redeem and ind reg regenerate it then loo look ai ab it now V. and see what nv bala bula ee ce sheet shows I I. I I But s some me think the old man has lived too long that it is time i for him t to re retire re Well VeIl that is a matter between my God Vod and and mys lf and while I Ia Iam Iani a am ani l willing that m my call shall hall come while 1 I r I am here the malcontents shall shaH not say that my old heart has has' faltered or 01 r that m my e eyes eS' eS are not nut still fixed upon that star of of dut duty which h thus far has lias led lcd rne ne on my lilY way I I I have 0 done something to be be remembered for or What hat have those done who would v push me mc from froni a Ill my place 1 My My Iy public and my private life are each open books they have been through ny iy IY fourscore years Long ago I 1 conse rated my life to my native land 1 have h e fulfilled the trust Whatever el of ambition ha has been mine been mine has been for my country and my countrymen Now let Jet them beware I was bred a soldier ii ir my youth I never have shrunk I never will shrink from doing iy 1 duty |