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Show THE FAREWELL OF DIAZ. We take it that the resignation of ex-President Dias as wired-waa a bungling translation, but atill it ia a pathetic document, and we do not wonder that when it waa read tha house was profoundly still, because it must have awakened memories of what tha old man haa been for half a century, first fighting its battle in war, then fighting to give to the country stability, character, order, credit, and to ad arrange thing that there would be labor for the people and a market for their products; how out of the almoat immeasurable difficulties which surrounded him he worked until he brought order and peace and stability where all before was chaos. We hope there ia someone who can step into his shoes and receive and wear his mantle a splendid as he haa worn it for thirty year. Possibly Pos-sibly he grew little tyrannical at last; possibly, knowing his countrymen aa he ' did, he curtailed some of their liberties because he understood very well that with manytf them liberty meant simply license. When he captured and shot laximilian there waa large body in Mexico that bewailed the fact; when they saw the empire of the young Aiis- trian melt away they grieved over it, and have never been reconciled since. All auch will rejoice over the relinquishment of power by the old chieftain. chief-tain. With power in their own heads, how they can handle it will have to be proven. If they can continue all that baa been- wise aad beneficial to the country and at the same time do away with all that haa been harsh and tyrannical, Mexico ought to continue to prosper and to grow in local and foreign estimation. That ia a problem that the world will wait to see solved, and moat of the world will wait with apprehension over the possible result re-sult We hope the. new government will be a grand success. We hope ao because our interest in Mexico Mex-ico is that she may get along without trouble and that interference on the part of the United States may never reach the point even of consideration. But we are afraid of those insurrectos, for they never have read, many of them at least, that injunction in-junction .in the good book to "Let Tiot him that cirdeth on his harness boast himself as he who put-teth put-teth it tiff." Tbry have been munching peanuts n the gallery and hissing at the performers on the stage. When they -pick up their roles and essay to be artihts, we fear that not many of them will prove to be stars. |