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Show 1 -J.n.-1. i - . a 1 ' - - WHAT OF MEXICO T.T. - It would be most interesting to obtain the real vLvrs of Porfirio Dial on the -situation in hia coun- - try today. : Thst is. it would- be interesting if. he retains iu their vigor his nlentul faculties. - Home things he has done recently indicate thut frt mildew hits eome; that "the window are darkened, dark-ened, and the clttda-return after the rain.". It i but a feVdays ainee bc'-proclaimed that the rebel-linn rebel-linn was nothing serious and would be speedily put down. And now he haft abdicated. What is the matter!. Are "fears in the way" There waa a tizif iu his life when, uudtr smth xtrcsn, he would have pip, himself at the head of his army and if ccci nwiry woul I have died fighting, his face to the fov tohe very last. Now it look ja though all that he ha, for s gejierstiop .past, hen building ap . was dismembered and hia government haa been parceled par-celed out among the malrontcuta that surround ' him.. When the new came the other day that a vest sma in-gold had been qirietly shipped' out of Mexico,- it awakened a suspicion that Dial had ' reached the point so.nften attained in Spanish-America, Spanish-America, when a leader, hopeless of the future, determines de-termines to cease struggling and tn seek quiet with affluence on foreign shores. ' , " We have not mu-h faith in the new government of Mexico. It looks as though there would soou begiu a wrangling-over, hunors at, i spoils, and as though a new'dtWsron' wouId soon have, to be in- sisted on' And '.hen the republic ia filled with jri-gand jri-gand band, which will now call thenselvea insur-rectos insur-rectos and -rusk affected patriotism a Vloak for - looting, ' " ' Behind them the people nre m.utly peons with no elements of advancement in their natures. We frar we? shall have to give up the belief that Mexico like Chile, in South America; hud .Vsrhed a. point where self government was' possible-. |