Show OPPOSED TO imperialism MEXICANS DO NOT LIKE IT THEY sympathize WITH BOERS city of mexico dec 29 impartial cial leading newspaper organ of the liberal party has a significant article on what constitutes imperialism and acids to show that tho united states has joined england russia germany and france in a career of conquest and aggrandizement impartial cial declares that imperialism and expansion are symptoms 0 national and argued that no nation which has ever played the imperial rolo has endured but has seen itself shorn of provinces and possessions as fast as the outlying provinces grew strong enough to shako off the yoke of their subjugate ors it compares the conduct of the united stales in the philippines to that of great britain in south africa and ends by predicting that all expanding nations will be forced to prodigal expenditures to maintain their hold on tho new possessions and so wilt become bankrupt the utterance from the chief liberal bigan Is significant of the sentiments benti ments ot tho members of that party now dominant here is a marked display in the press here of sympathy with the doers it is lep orfed that tho british residents are raising volunteer corps to joir the army in south africa el pals tho catholic penny dally attacks the american missionaries charging them with misrepresenting mexico in their home depicting as barbarous the land where they labor among the heathen and asks why they do not publish articles showing the great progress made here in railways telegraphs education and manufacturing but concludes that it they did not make the american peo alc plc believe mexico to bo steeped in paganism and barbarism they could net secure funds to maintain their missions the religious question is at the bottom of the clerical party opposition hero to all things american |