| Show SAME OLD OL THING IS DOWN THERE Clericals In Mexico Advocating Persecution of the Mormons MARE Others are and Do Nut ua the anal Afternoon Dispatches CIt City of Mexico Feb loeb MexIcan papers are giving much attention topics topIc e especially the pro Iro proposed posed construction or of the Nicaragua ua canal and the Mormons The latter subject Is of oC especIal domestic Interest on account of the lie flourIshing Mormon lormon colonies In tho northern part of the HI El the clerical dally daily the tle government for tor lis Ita liken treatment of oC the tho Mormons saying that here hore all doors are thrown open opan to them lands freel freely given them and what Is a times worse thy they are arc permitted to open schools oI of theIr owe wherein sherein they thoy will teach the dren of oC the MexIcan people Hople theIr un Unclean clean clenn and pernicious doctrines es while In Inthe inthe the States says sas HI Fi the country which our liberals are always trying to ImItate Mormons cannot tend enl to Congress and the theare are punished for tor IndulgIng In plural marriages The Tue annie journal WhIch speaks for the conservative party part goes gOts goeson on to censure censure the States for its III continued display or of lust luet for tor territory and the dangers to from the continued inflow ot of Americans and American capital and says the nb ab tendencies of the race mee are greatly to be dreaded Wo We Weare are to become It adds the first vie Ic Urns titus ot of the tho program of expansion and imperIalism Taking n a wholly hell distinctive view of the tho American IJ people and their ions El EI Mundi the organ orlan of t tie o lI party now In power here comments on the adoption of the lie Nicaraguan canal by the AmerIcan Congress s SO s that Mexico like nil all Latin havIng terrItory oft the is hI bound to be by bythe the canal anal Mexico will be able to export tram from her ports larger laner Quantities I of ore woods arid dyewoods I But that I Is I i In gen genI I oral ill outlook II in MexIco ox Of Mexican sugar Is impossible In n a coin O n sense As regards Importations MexIco Will be able to receIve b by th the canal canai a 11 good and ant anI supply of coal conI throughout Its Pa pota as well vell ns as European corn com modUles of at nil nih so 80 that thal the Nicaragua canal hil be n a serious corn com to our internal railroads hut But Butmore more this the act that the tho canal conal will on en able ablo us lare tf to Increase our exports export of ore Is evidence thaI list It will willbo willbe bo be highly advantageous to us From n a pUrely political point of view the Nb aragua canAl canai severing 11 us It will 11 North and Central roIn South America will be f a bar to all plans of mill tary solidarity of the nations a 11 solidarity I arl y many hl have e thought possible or of II Dy means of If a a great Ireat railway extending from Mexico to Patagonia or Terra Term Fuego The canal conal will harm Europe In that It will render AmerIcan an roi of the trade of Peru Bolivia Ecuador Colombia and n a great of oC ChIli M as well vell ni central and eastern Asia and will establish the kind of competition between AmerIcan and European merchandise There Is no doubt that the Nicaraguan canal will greatly further and diplo diplomatic matic Influence or of the United States It is III a good thIng that no such canal has ver er been opposed across Mexico for 1 a weAk na nation tion which Is h by nn an Inter oceanic canal loss loses either n a portion Of its territories or a largo large part of Its sovereignty The Mexican Herald says that b by the tho construction of the canal ennal the United States extends its lis southern CoatI coast line for far to the south Routh and that th the canal wIll bl be the means menns of oC the tho 1 MexIcan cnn can west vest coast ports prosperous and will enable Mexico to build UI Its Pa et c coast In I preparation tor or alterIng In the commerce commore whIch Is o 0 fill the Pacific as was al predIcted lIy bySe Se ward whose policy President McKinley Is consistently carrying out |
