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Show THE FLIGHT OF DIAZ. The flight of Diax from his native country after the work he performed there makes a pitiable story. Were he twenty-five yeara younger our prediction would be that before very long he would bo recalled, b. t then had he been twenty-five years younger he would not have fled. Rather he would have called his' fighting men around him and it would have been his enemies that would have fled. And still he should not much grieve. He has practically gone already into history and when the records shall be honestly studied he nay be sure that he will be rated aa not only the foremost Mexican Mex-ican of his age, but as holding the sovereign place over all hia countrymen in the Mexican temple of fame. Indeed, his fame ia not limited to his own country. In the last forty years many men in many countries have made for themselves great names. Where is there one who through a path so filled with sharp atones and thorns made auch a march aa did Diaz! He recreated hia country when it was really in extremis. He gave it tranquillity and or-der; or-der; he imitated the Creator in looking out on the chaos and gave the command: "Let there be light 1" He caused barren places to become fertile. He paid hia country's debts. He started all the wheela of industry; he restored his country's good name in all foreign lands. He pai l her debta and filled her treasury with gold. He built achoolhouaes to give his countrymen knowledge and hospitals to teach them mercy. ' He found work for the deserving de-serving and insured them for their work a fair reward. re-ward. Looking the. world around, what other man of the age haa done so much for his country f And now past four store years he is forced to flee. God help hia country. ' |