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Show MADERO'S INAUGURAL SPEECH. ' , The' speech made by Madero when nominate! for president indicatra that he is much more of a man than anything in hia past would lead us to expect. The substance of it was that Mexico must have such a gnvrrnroent that under it all the people would be given equal opportunity, but that it must be a government of law; that if un trusted men are still holding office, if their title to those offices is legal, the law, not public iuspiriorf.'must rule. A man .must be a brave man and at the Mime time must be reasonably certain -of hia own position, to lay down such a doctrine to' the impetuous and excitable ex-citable people who thronged around Madero while he waa speaking. Hia speech awakens a hop that the driving out of the iron handed JMax was not. after all, a calamity to Mexico. It awakepa a hope of progress in that Country-under a aofter, Tmt, after all, a stronger and lee selfish rrtlv - ' The question will be, sn such, a policy be. sustained sus-tained among a race so unstable as the MexicausT We hope that it may ; that by thia time there is leaven enough among he educated and patriotic Mexicans to leaven the whole lump ; that peace may be assured there, and prosperity unmixed with any element of tyranny or fear. |