Vernal Express | 1926-09-17 | Page 3 | Vernal Pastor Explains Conditions Found in Old Mexico on Recent Visit

vernal pastor explains 1 conditions found in old mexico on recent visit J by REV CHARLES SEBOLD we cannot pick up a neeper or magazine today without finding some suggestion as to what we ceball do a with W mexico tico many ak ask preel prest dent coolledge tor for intervention w gome some to keep hands off some claim that b there Is religious persecution perse cutton while h ia e others claim the opposite to be true so the battles rages back and forth ort hand and wa we seem to gain no headway 0 or r reach any conclusions one mistake ig Is nade mide too often by oth 1 parties in tola this argument that mistake Is that the suggestions are snails ader fr tv tm lin the U 8 on a baste ct of rb he way nay things are here without go ng into the background of mexico to a reach an understanding ot of a problem that has been forming tor for the past years or ever since the time line of the spanish conquest j before we to go into the various arious pr beems of this great ela eta ter republic we will go back in his big tory and study the element elements chat make to this great nation thought the boft important and least thought of difference between the V S and mexico that makes a so lati olof the problems of that country impossible of comparison with like solutions ot at our pro lyne blona is 19 thai t of the nature of its founders fa the puritans and quakers who Kett settled led our baad were drawn largely from the middle or working classes who tied fled to this new now land to escal religious persecution they came ure ihre to find a quiet place where they might worship their god according a td the dictates ot of their own conscience they came to arund pew new homes I 1 t the spanish conquerors from the cavaliers Caval lers and aff raff of the country came to find and treasure and wealth with little or no thought of remaining in the sub jated land the puritans Purl tane and quakers brought with them ervent fervent and u unshakable n r religious e I 1 I 1 g I 1 a u a a n 8 branded so deep in their souls ahr that t the convictions influence their pas even to this day the cavalier Ca valler a name mame up plied by the Ca to toa any nyman man who could rake vo up enough money to buy a horse home armor and weapons used his religion and the name ot at bis his catholic ruler as a those case cloah cloak to hide title the bandit knife beneath the puritans found a cold rigorous climate unfriendly to them that demanded toll toil and end labor to eke from front it t the barest existence on thie the other hand band the found a genial climate comparing favorably fator ably with that of the home land and h he presed upon the richest eatty raiona ot of the new world the northerners brought brount with them their wives and childr ri and homes the spaniard brol brought aught hi hl armor we weapons alyous of war and devil tr the Northern northerner fr ex terminated the indian while the so southerners th erners mingled alth aill hem them and thear act tin and b atlin their wake an unfortunate urn of or half halt breeds as we fall call them fa short english culture brought afi thie to land re remained english cul cut lure slightly in defied while spanish culture was im hy y the colonial government upon a subject people or wa wao scattered te f d accidentally by the wastrels rf the empire jamiat hat seems on the surface to be a bilty a national unity in mexico me lol is simply a veneer of spanish language and customs at heart thre la is no national unity mexico Is idill aland a land of many people cultures still tu 8 a and 13 of epochs and the end Is not ye yet a yet a stock that is coi UTion la a gradually influencing th the e life of mexico it Is the mixture of iberian and indian called the cesti 1 zan lula luis 0 urbina writes ot of it in mal la vida Ller Lier eria ae de mexico thus physiologically we mexicans alejj arf neither ono one nor the other spanish nor indian rather are iaea rt ea well differentiated ethnic type partaking of the characteristic of boich pro genit ry ty races doth both strive to zo exist even strive aganet each othir in our for survival to a the sancho panza ranza and the QU otle deler lum are united tn in our hearts the sad nes of the indian the ancestral submissiveness of a subject race raci and th the gentleness of the abor agle and if we are mexicans in lifa we are mexicans in speech in dreeli m and in song 1 lit thia thid tl i Is in mexico io I lt it is not mot so noticeable in practical ca experience as a senor urbina would have ui believe adese 1 mas tezoy teada number but 43 per cent of the po population of the land and from 15 16 to 20 per cent of these live in the fashion thirty eight per cant of ow population are still indian in blood and custom over atwol mild a of these do not riot speak nor will they learn spanish in all over 85 86 per cent of the V k mexico Is indian or mixed with indian customs predominating thea these can be divided into 10 or 11 separated linguistic tio camill es the these various tongues show baw aigro migration altion after migration of at the indi findlins wept swept into mexico in aee age in spite of this ethnic contu alon slon the indians indiana can be traced to tour four races the including ithe the bloodthirsty aztecs who still till occupy amies the federal district ahr ohu ahu mice and tha teca s and nd the maya suichee f yucatan the lag last named three combined with the in the northwest North the state of sonora posse eced ed a high state of civilization and had a genie sense of and national unity they now contribute to the social in mexico at the time at 0 cortez the love of these indians for the patria chlebo or tribe surpassed bid bla loro tore tor for the patria grande the nation the iraci fic alaya maya hates the aztec 7 and he ile loathes the foreigner especially the white man lie Is 1 a citizen of the invisible mayan state yucatan has be ame ci me ireland tea tho yuca tan inda indian Is suspicious ot at every idling that bat savors of aggred aggression even though diaz used this state as a penal colony he could not break the mayan race fabric the mayan population wishes to unite with mith central america and during bonx revolution ave of their itea seceded one of at which was yucatan only flarce or tear fear holds them to the nation I 1 the teca and cahuas or ai az tees b hive tye such a group also the held out for race equality for the Mor ellau indian the azteca still dream of the empire ot of montezuma the mexican govern nifae has tried to destroy thie this dream and the catholic church has abolished many of ahr holiday festive fest ivl lyl ties as they elvored too mo much of the an empire but to no avail and the cup of subjection Is gall to even after years ot at bondage the arul the terrible ot at a el rora mora ruel and bitter have never been conquered even though thom thousands sands lave have been slaughtered and sent to prison amps camps of yucatan these indians were religious fanatics around abe pyramids of te were clustered hundreds of homes the temples of at the old gods were to be found crowded in each city were annually sacrificed to the great god the ores on the pyram lda to the fair god Qi burned day and night through throughout oAt the centuries it waa this religious fervor and fanaticism that helped vortex conquer mexico next to his religion the indian loved war he ile in this way provided victims for sacrifice the aztec never tried to kill 1111 in war he lie would rather capture pria ners who weri led to the sacrificial stone where the priest nth flinty knife cut open the breast of the victim inserted 1131 ul hands into the round and tore out the palpitating heart this smoking heart he be held hold to the stin and then cast jn the he gold can iran before the god tae the victim was a then eaten at a religious feast war also provided him with grain and slaves I 1 today the mat natives ives iilo two manias take a different light 11 he e KI ru longer offers human sacrifice but he be wor relps a crucifix with a bloody christ on tha thet cross he ile substitutes the eating of human flesh with the catholic of eating of at the actual body of christ in the t fer ills 1 religious dances are his big old pagan joltes under it new mew name lie worships the mountain prays to the treas and often secretly slips ina tnt the museum to make bla his offering to an old idol there little cil iange has his taken place in his big fanaticism during tha the past 40 C years ills old customs and superstitions are an intricate part of him even trough he wor war thio ship the holy italy mother or the black virgin of Quade quadalupe lupe and sheail speake i fl oi me spanish jie jle rears wears the same judale of bis big toltec predecessors be Is wears the salme garape woven 0 on U the same hand band looms be eats the rame type of food he lie ig Is still the eld old jedlan not the north american tyre type but the type of whom draper in ills life intellectual development of at europe says From Mexico a civilization that might bave have europe rias crushed oi t it has been spain a destiny toJ FruIn two civilizations arienta aad and occidental and to 0 be her 1 amer loa k she h dt dr royed ored rafts more ltd than then bi tb the rae of the tb elvill gatlen that culture and that glory still remain romain ing in tile his heart four hundred years of slavery has not crushed it so much u at ft the indian Herl tais of mexico another important fae so tor in the understanding standing ot of the problem problems ot at this treat great land ts Is her spanish heritage for such ahe she baa has whether gl lorto orous uj or not friend friends lei let us follow the cross and it we hare have faith we hall conquer such was wa the mott em m blazoned beneath the arms of charles the V that cortez planted on the palace of mont tumia iab ills began the latel letout dominion of the roman spanish church end and late state and the decadence of at that wae as great and wad in native life at that hour began tho the red kadi mane mang burden in the western n alemi sphere spain throughout her hist ra n aa ever the docile child of the roman she was conquered red by the roman slate state church and law she held unyieldingly to the justinian precept of one state one law one church which meant la in modern spain the rlee ot of institutions at the be expense of hi himan man liberty beneath I 1 this system of at centralized church state and law spain has been riv or eted to intellectual and back ward bardness ness crushed co to condi conditjr tir of slothful Isola laola tui tron at the forward movements of at western europe in bihain the in wae was most ferocious fero cloua neter never has the clamor of at liberty frater alty and equality or the rigl Right rightson ts of man shaam her ehrl ugh all the cen aurles of her existence the church had inspired fanata cism t appe out the jew and the moslem ferdinand and isabella used this religious to kain gain new territory their soldiers eol diere were the swords of the croes cross and they went to plaat the of christianity among the heathen of the world the buccaneers and con la in the church a ready handmaiden um eho she reaped a rich reward from ti tj ir r exploits in the early regime of wn la in mexico cio all acts eta of official were mammiel in religion 1 p and sentimentalism dm one native itai tsi bitterly oates that the SP hArda brought but three bless I 1 to hetico priest bullfights and gatab lini but even at that the kultar akas ag merely a substitution for that which already existed more worldly wise despots were substituted for the more naive native rulers A mere crafty religion to replace the existing one on top ot at these a great racial program was created industrial conquest followed that ot of cortez A system of land minei and slid slave was instituted th the F P TI lards were given large con concessions cess lons with the right to exploit the property and the natives by levying bur hue taxes tin n them in return were to build churchro chur char chri cheil and provide religious instruction P t r the natives rin tives i one spaniard conde de valle Ori zab owned 2500 acres of land in drango and Cla CiA hulla alone one man the foret fonde conde de val es nela took from bis his mines an all an i nual profit of at grolni shoo on to SOO augustin de zavala paid as a royal fifth tp t th the crown one wits was so rich that it he I 1 paved pared SQ 50 bards let tot the street fur a wedding procession with silver and linel the bridal cli amber with the same metal another invited tue the king to bilat him and promised prom leed that hia his hore lorse bould touch but solid silver from vera drug to the capital during the three of span tah ish dominion acter one and a halt billion dollars were extracted in gold and sllvia in 1810 at the out 1 breah break of the revolution the yearly gold trad action was 13 goo these figures are in U 3 8 inavey inai bey ey this brought about a great social cleavage all mexican office offices rell stoa ditl ami nod tarr were rw rell ema for taw rite 1 of tee at awn only oae one of the as 61 viceroy ave the 33 bishops of two of the 14 34 bishops ot of oarB avo a one of tha the 32 arth rb dehope were mo er I 1 oleo born in mexico the tho highest Iffie ft nere were always reamed reserved for aorl poniards boru born tn in stain fair neither crittle nor Alee hIes could ascend tar far up th tb religious rell glou and political lad ler der la in of this the creoler Creo lct often large fortunes tort unee if it the creole hated the ran spaniard lard the in than and Ve bated both lre iare the pariah or slaves they bere iere ere treated with contempt an all eldee sides the indian ae as the I 1 vest west in the scale lie IN had bad no chance whatever all theae these hatred were rent pent up until after the diaz regime the mestizo aul indian were wera united in their hatred of the white aan man tle spanish to I 1 mani feet test in many way ways today todal uniform uniforms of street car conductor conductors and police wailes that would have gladdened tho heart ot of a 4 king A magnificent poet atice building but the poorest postal system la in the world tle tl e most bet beautiful cathedral cathedrals in the world but bat a physically payl cally mentally and morally rotten hood if it li Is the old Span leS alt lore love for outward beauty manifesting itself s elf in mexico today the good elde side of the spanish heritage la Is that today its language aud nd gift of common cust ams will ba be a nicana 0 1 I uniting the nat foral ite life of mexico these are the beri heritages that are mexico a vastly different as we have seen from that which wae van oure ours tha the for ex es are till still rt tit work and we vie must them and deal accordingly before we can berin begin tio to help bell mexico solve ber her leme terns we have been a nation of exploiter they one of the exploited plotted we were founded on rell rail glou freedom the upon religious intolerance ahle have been a na alon on of private landbo they berte serfs to a sixteenth ventury feudal ism the difference la Is great ind tad bea re we come to auy radical con f flu lona we e murt mut face these facts with caipen minds next week a discussion of the political development of mexico will be given