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Show WHAT OF MEXICAN SOLDIERS? The first revolution is over in Mexico. V; say first because there is no telling how many are to follow. The first lasted six months and the marvelous mar-velous feature of it was that though there was not a force of itiaurrei'tos gathered at any place, that a full regiment of kmerican soldiers would not have scattered in twenty minutes' 'fighting, there was not a battle worth the name in the whole six mouths. The so called federal army of Mexieo hardly seemed in evidence at all. It was supposed that Diaz was holding the main force to protect his capital, but it will be rememlered that the day before he departed a wire came that a force ' of insurrectos only ten or fifteen miles out of -the City of Mexico were threatening to take the city by direct assault. Was Dia afraid of hia army all the time, or is that army made up almost entirely en-tirely of worthless material T It has been told for a long time that men convicted of felonies have been sentenced to service in the army instead of in jail.. If that ia trae. we can' well understand thrt a few regiments would be worthless. But the main army, what of it f Were the men disaffected from the first f Is it true that the rising up against the old president wss general? Had he alienated both the people and the armyf It is altogether inexplicable from every point of view, unless we take the ground that it ia said an American officer in Cnba a year before the late war. mhen Weyler, the unspeakable, said to the American that he could land 10.000 of his soldiers in Florida and lead them to Keew Tork. "Tou might." was the reported reply,"if they behaved themselves, but If they did not. the police would run them in." Mexico floes not aeeia to be pv.plfrd by a fighting race t |