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Show MEXICO. V A contemporary says that Mexico is now paying for neglect of the navy. A squsdron of transports could be employed with great effect for porta in the disturbed area, at Mazatlan, for instance. Poor Mexico ia suffering "from her neglect of many things. From her neglect of schoolhouw; for her neglect in impressing her people with the idea that the only way for a man to make an honorable hon-orable living ia by the sweat of his face; for neglecting to teach her children that the first essential es-sential in a republic ia a respect for and obedience to the law; for her neglect to punish her grafters for their defalcations; for her neglect to exercise all of the functions of free citixenship and by the ballot to compel justice. ' So many things has she neglected that the outlook today ia more hopeless thsn it hss been in the last twenty years, for we greatly fear that were Diaa to abdicate and a new government be patched up, there are ao many rogues high in station in Mexico that the country would degenerate into another revolution inside of three years. ' |