MEXICO AND THE UNITED sTArr,
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Nothing illustrate more forcibly, peTisp,.
the difference between the Anglo Saxon and Inc
Spanish system Of colonization, and races than a
comparison between the growth and population
Of lhe two countries named al the head Of This
paragraph


III 1878 the population N Mexico was !, ,N0l
--in l-i2 Il was only 7-Dl5.5Up.


In 1853 The population of Tie United Statcswa
l.O5l ,0Uu-in 1910 II was ,,4!39, ,-0O--in l,lBi
was l7,67J,O00.


Both countries have broke away from Colonial
boBlage-boih had 10 endure wasting reroa.
iionary war, and both arc nov independent UT
Rth what difference of power, of Happiness and
Of frreGoml


In McKee,. il Is believed there IT. fewer people
who can read and write ihln there ~. ID The O.
States who cannot That single fact IS inll Of
significance.


1t cannot all BE- traced TO the differences in
blood Of The races which inhabt these United
states and those Of Mexico, that results % zlrk.
inEly dissmlar appear.


HE CaRgHeRtadDys were y race or men a.
patient Of ioil-as indilirrrnt 10 dangers ful of
energy and enterprZe-as ibr boldest OF the basest
Anglo Saxon that ever lived. Yet even not a
trace Of these characteristics is to be found in
their Mexican descendants. OF the pure blood
Of Spain there are TO be sure, we suppose very
few among the I7liions who 70 to make I'D the
population Of lhc Mexican Enpire-the Tace BE-
I'M more mingled with The native Indian, and
perhaps with the African.


But il " institutions even more than blood that
have bclttled the Mexican people.


They were held, the conqueroTs and the con.
guered alike, IN abj-ct submission to the Crown of
spain, while lis power lasted Since the Spanish
scePirc was broken, they have been held ia snb-
lccfion hardly L hhect. 10 the military leaders
who have governed the country.


In country oppressed with debt--viih little OF
no eommcTcc--and without any well dlcssed
aud impartial system of reyenue-ihere is = per-
manent standing army Of more than thirty ihous-
and men


Then there is in addition 70 IL csc. very large
tody a rnral clergy-who by ihr by nre the a-ents
oi charity the MINISTERS of Glercy, and The trends
and defenders of their fiocks and Of The Indians
some $500 secular clergy, 1900 monks and 1000
nnns, owning property worth one kua9Te2 NIL
hons Of dolio1s.


The population is passionate, exciiable, fall Of
prejudice, and easily reused 10 angry action; but
a. must be readily seen il cannot Be formidable as
an element Of war, nor reliable as d security ior
internal order and peace. II &. the Ignorance and
vehemcnce Of this class Of people, which, il any
iAIngr may compel the ~ exican Government 20
assume the appearance, at least If no; the rnaly,
Of hosiiliiies with this country How little fomi-
da5ie they would be adversaries IN the field IS
apparent enOuga--but the fatal word wAR. even
when proclaimed by such mouths, Is frauzli with
danger and uncertainties inralcnlabe. We trust
II WILL not 5e Pr0nounced.-T T. Cour.