Show Mexico Original Interpreted Interpreted Original Inhabitants By FREDERICK STARR University of Chicago Author of Mexico and the United States Twenty Visits to Mexico and months of living with the common people have qualified Prof Frederick Starr to write with authority on almost every phase of the land on the other side of the Rio Grande In his book Mexico and the United States Professor Starr traces the origin of the people and begins at the beginning by going back to the character of the land EDITOR Mexico is what it is because of its geography its climate its streams its mountains valleys deserts forests Its altitudes altitudes' its atmosphere make a people different from ourselves Its people are Indian or a mixture of Indian with Spanish The race qualities are different from ours feeling is different sentiment is different point of view yiew is different Upon what was Mexico founded C When Cortez in in inthe the first third of the sixteenth six six- kr cc tee th century marched from Vera Veri Cruz up into the plateau country what did he find He found Mexico occupied by scores of warring ba barbarous barous independent Indian tribes A All l were agricultural and settled populations Ot One On historian historia l lists lists' more than ISo languages n 4 spoken en at t that a time ime in in w what is to today ay Mexico The Aztecs cs were one tribe ar among ong this mass massof of tribes it was larger than some more advanced advanced advanced ad ad- than many The Aztecs had a ah ail ingenious system of tf writing by means of p pictures They knew the use of copper gold and silver they could smelt the native metals and cast them cunningly j they did not know the use of iron The Aztecs had one one domestic domestic- animal a little dog fattened for food They had an interesting culture which placed them at the upper lev level t. t of barbarism but no higher Tomorrow another fascinating chapter In ancient Aztec history will be outlined S |