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THE PROGRESSIVE FARHER : JULY 21, 1896. (Continued from last week ) THE LAND OF THE NOONDAY SUN MEXICO IN MIDWINTER. (From Arena for J une.) BY JUSTICE WALTER CLARK, IX, D. President Diaz, who was for awhile a widower, in recent has married a most charmiDg and p pular young lady, the daughter of Senor Rubio, now lately dead, who had formerly been a political opponent, but who after this alliance took a seat in his son in law's cabinet. Sanora Diaz is exceedingly popular all over Mexico. The Spanish pronunciation in detail would require a grammar, but in gen eral it may be said that a is ah, e is a, i is ee, o is broad o, and u is oo. Hu is w, ju is wh, jiah, h is silent, double I is y, and g before e and t is h Unlike French, in which no syllable is accen ted and in which, according to the French Academy, on an average two fifths of the letters on a page are silent, in Spanish, every sy lable is pronounced, and there is an accent on soma sylla ble, generally the next to the last, and this stress is more decided than in English, being in many cases almost a drawl on the accented syllable. As a curiosity the pronunciation of the names of several of the towns is here given, the accented syllable being in italics : Mexico is Meh eco ; Aguas Cal ientes is Ah-was Calien-tas; Catorce is Kay-for see; Guanajuato is Wah na what to; Gaadalajara is Wardly ly Aar-rer; Guaymas is Wye mas; Jalapa is Ha lap per; Lagos is Lah gos; Leon is Ltjoicn; Morelia is Morally a; Qaeretaro is Kayrefaro; Oaxaca is O-ah hack er ; Orizaba is Oree zab bah ; 8au Luis Potosi is San Lu ees Poto see - San Miguel de Allende is San Me gil day Ayeii dy ; Tampico is Tarn pee co; Torreon is Torry own; Tula is Too la; Z icatecas is Kky tay cas. Sometimes the meaniDg of a word depends on which syllable i3 accented, as pa pa means a pDtato, while pa pa, with the accent on the last syllable, means father. While the Mexican leaders were wise enough and patriotic enough to save their country from the tortures &nd de depression of the gold standard and falling prices which we have had to endure, many years ago they found their foreign debt (1180,000,000) gold and silver were at a par, and not anti cipating any attempt to demonetize the latter in order to double the value of the former, they unwisely consented that the interest on this foreign debt a3 a matter of convenience should be made payable in London and ia gold They did not know there was any in convenience in it then, but they have found it out now, as, like our own deb tors and taxpayers, they are paying double what should be justly paid. It is just like contracting for ten thou sand bushels of wheat and then doub ling the size of the bushels. Mexico has about $100,000,000 of other debt created more recently, but, taught by experience, this is payable, like our debt, in coin, and their Secretary of the Treasury, unlike ours, pays the government creditors in coin of the same value as that in which the debt was created, and interest on this debt is paid in the same money in which taxpayers have just received f 1 25 per bushel for their corn or wheat and fif teen to eighteen cents per pound for their cotton. The railroads reflect the prosperity of the country and thow eteady in crease in receipts, though their rates (owing to the enhancement of the value our currency) are practically half what ours are. To take one railroad as an example. Tne receipts of the Mex ican Central, which were $3,550,000 in 1885, were nearly doubled five years later, being in 1890 $6,425,000. This rose to $8,450,000 in 1894, and last year added over a million to that, the re ceipts for 1895 of this one railway be ing $9,496,000. The railroad station houses throughout Mexico are in the best style and many are very hand some, and plats ornamented with flow ers and tropical plants are frequent. These random observations have been thrown together, as they may possibly serve to amuse orinterestesome of your readers. Before giving some idea of the parts of the country I visits! on my return, as will now be done, I may add that Americans will find it agree able and very pleasant, if they can find friends to introduce them, to visit the American Club, just opposite the Iturbide Hotel. Our countrymen who frequent there, and especially those who maintain the club are a fine type of men. The two dailies printed in English, the Mexican' Herald and the Two Republics, are abreast in every respact with the dailies in our large cities, and are edited, by gentlemen of the first order of ability. It is a sure sign of the numbers and wealth of the American population in the country that two dailies of the highest grade can be maintained. The United States Consul General is ex Governor T. T. Crittenden of Missouri, who is exceed whether residing in Mexico or merely the country. Judge Spulvedo, our Secretary of Legation and President of the American Club, was formerly a judge of the Superior Court in Califor nia, though he has now resided many years in the Mexican capital. He also is very courteous and much liked. Our country is fortunate, far more fortu nate than some European capitals which might be readily named, in t av ing such representatives as these gen tlemen. Minister Ransom was absent in the United S pates on leave during the period of my visit, so I did not meet him. One of the pleasantest short excur sions from the city of Mexico is due due south to Cuernavaca. The rail road which is in process of construc tion to Osapulco, on the Pacific, is only completed as yet to Tres Marias, just below the mountain range, where the journey to Cuernavaca is made by stage. This might be called the "battlefield route," as the railroad passes out by Chapultepec, through the fields of Casa Mata, Molino del Rey Padierna, and Contreras, and within a short distance of Cherubsco, which is in full view. After leaving Contre ras the track constantly climbs the mountains, giving at every turn a magnificent view of the valley of Mex ica with its seven lakes, the castle crowned hill of Chapultepac, the great city itself with its steeples and domes, and the scores of villages dotting the plain. At La Cima we have attained a height of nearly ten thousand feet, and begin to descend the Pacific slope. At Tres Marias we leave the cars and take a stage for Cuernavaca. A glo rious view it is in this cloudless clime to see the valley spread for miles and miles before you and thousands of feet below, dotted with villages and hacien das, and the capital of the State in the centre foreground. We went down with four horses, we came back drawn by ten, and we saw some railway con struction wagons which were being drawn by eighteen horses. This will be a great railway when it is completed through to Ac&p jlco. Tne Interoceanic, already completed from Vera Cruz by way of the City of Mexico to Yautepec, is also stretching out to Acapuco, so there will soon be two lines from the capi;al to that port. The Guadalajara branch of the Central is also under process of construction to another port on the Pacific. Cuernavaca is a quaint old town as yet untouched by railroads. It has its grand old churches, and the ca3tle in which Cortez lived in the midst of his princely land grant, and commanding a lovely view of moun tains and valley. He lived here when no longer permitted to reside near the capital. Cortez was a good business man, as well as conquerer; for he not only picked out and had the choicest lands granted to him, but he owned many of the most eligible corner lots in the capital, including that on which the government building now stands. But it is impossible not to recall that his name is uahonored by any memo rial in the country of his triumphs, while in the Paseo the grand statue of his viitim, the last Aztec emperor, Guatemczin, proudly lifts his hands and head to heaven. So true is it that "the victor has his day, but the vie tim has all eternity." And if some one shall say, What good shall it do him? it may be replied, Did not the victor fight that he might be remem bered after death, and did ho not strug gle for fame, "That fancied life ia another's breath. Which is beyond us, even iu our deth?" And of Cortez, as of another and a haughtier name, it may well be said : "Who would soar the polar height To tet in such a starless nightV" Here, too, are memorials of Maximil ian and Carlotta in the lovely garden of La Borda, and the little "House in the Woods" where they attempted to rusticate in their "Little Trianon." The Indian name of the town was Quahnaahuac, meaning "where the eagle stops." This, the more prosaic Spaniard has corrupted into Cuerna vaca, which signifies "cdw horn." Having come into Mexico by the Mexic ax Central, when I got back to the capital I left for home over the shortest route, the Mexican National. Albeit a narrow gauge, it makes ex cellent time. The scenery is grand as we climb the mountain, leaving city and villages and gleaming lakes and glistening streams far below us. The transparent atmosphere, the cloud less skies, the exhilaration of the oxone in this perfect climate makes one al most believe he is swimming through the air. And beyond, silent, unchang ing, stand the sentinels of the land, the snow crowned summits of the monarchs of the mountains. At eleven thousand feet elevation we cross the mountain and descend toward Toluca, on our way passing along the breast of the precipice a thousand feet almost di rectly over the red tiled roofs of the village of Ocoyoacac. Toluca is the capital of the State of Mexico, a most interesting town of twenty five thou sand inhabitants, and of the cleanest ingly popular with Americans, visiting X in the world. It is only three hours' rurl from the capital and is much vis ited. At Acambaro we turn off from the main line for a run to Patzcuaro over the western division, which will some day be completed to the Pacific at Maozraillo. We pass through the city of Morelia, one of the prettiest cities in all Mexico. Its beautiful plaza magnificent cathedral, grand Paseo, aqueduct and the Causeway of Guade loupe would be attractions enough even if it did not have the most per feet of climates. Patzcuaro station is the terminus of the railway, and it is on the lake of that name, the town being two miles away. On the lake is a steamer visiting port after port on its shores, like a humming bird passing from fl jwer to fl )wer. In one of these villages, in the old church at Tzintzun is a famous painting by Titian, "The Entombment," which was presented by Phillip II. of Spain. Ffty thou sand dollars has been recently offered for this picture and was refused. Not far off is Uruapan, famous as produc ing the best coffee in Mexico. This State (Michoacan) and Jalisco just north of it (whose capital is Guadajara) have the most perfect climates to be found in Mexico, or indeed probably in the world. The combination of lake and mountains, always beautiful, is nowhere more so than here. (.Continued next week ) WHO WILL IT HURT. Correspondence of the Progressive Farmer. It is amusing to read the frantic ap peal of the Republicans in their plat form to the Populists to save them or they perish. Who will be hurt by the Dcni'crats disfranchising the illiterate element? Not the Populists; their voters are composed of the best and most intelli gent element in the country and it is this class that is coming to us from the two old political parties. Tnere is no doubt but the Republican party would be hurt by the disfranchisement of the illiterate voters. The Democratic party poll their large majorities in negro counties, and to disfrancise this element would re duce the number of their votes. The Democrats in Western North Carolina bought this class of voters in 1894, and in this county they bought hundreds of voters of this class. The Populists have no money to buy with. They must draw their ncruits from the in telligent and patriotic element of the two old political parties. There is no danger of the Democrats disfranchising the ignorant voters as they must rely on this element for success. If this class in North Carolina who sell their votes were disfranchised, the Populists would have a walk over. It is this large element we have to fear and to overcome then we must appeal to the patriotic elemement in the two old parties. It the electoral vote of North Carolina is necessary to secure the election of the Republican candidate, millions of money will be spent to secure the votes. If the fight was between the Republicans and Democratic parties for supremacy there would be some reason for the Democrats to disfranchise the large ele ment of illiterate voters in the R ?pub lican party. As the fight in the future is between the Populist and Damocratic parties, and the Democratic party are not euch fools as to disfranchise the only elemen ; they could purchase and thereby rely on for success. It is now evident that there cannot long be three parties in the State. Tne R jpub iican party is doomed Its machine, as Amis says, has to secure the spoils whenever the R 'publican party elects a President. Whenever the Populist party engages in the task of savir g the Rapublican party for the sake of a few offices, it has sealed its fate. As long as there wts talk of fusion all we 8 chaos. Now that it is decidtd to fight for principle, straight the Populists take on new life and the patriotic ele ment in the two old parties are coming to us. Fusion means confusion and in the end dis solution. It destroyed the greenback and labor parties acd in the end will destroy any party how ever however valuable its principles. Let us stand by principles and these chrystalized into law will bring per manent prosperity to every class. Let us appeal to the patriotic element of of all parties and trust in God for the result. Bro Amis comes over to the help of the L rd against the mighty. The Alliance principles furnish the only complete protective system ever promulgated. The Republican protec tive system leaves the farmers to sell on the free trade market of the world in competition with farmers employ ing labor that works for one fourth the wages paid the same class in this country. The labor, since 1890, ia assisted with the best of labor saving machinery and thus armed can accom plish as much more per man at. Amer ican labor. Tnis sharp competition is forcing the price of farm produce down and reducing the net proceeds of the farm. The Republican party forces the farmers to compete on the free- trade markets of the world for gold It is this sharp competition for this metal, with cheaper labor that is fore ine the price of farm produce down In the future we will show how the Alliance principles chrystalized into law will give us a complete protective system This done, there is no excuse for any Republican not voting the Alliance principles. As for parties they are a curse. Men become attached to the name and are partisans. We should study principles and stand by them, The Populists have the Alliance prin ciples. As long as they stand by them T will do all within mv nower to make it a success. When they throw aside principle for office I have no further use lor tnem. Very trulv yours, James Murdoch (official) NATIONAL ALLIANCE DEMANDS. Adopted at Washington, D. C, February 6, 1896. Whereas, The Declaration of Inde pendence, as a basis for a R publican form or government tnat mignt oe progressive and perpetual, states: "Tnat ail men are createa equal; that they are endowed with certain m alienable rights ; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happi ness ; that to secure these rights, gov ernments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the governed. " We hold, therefore, that to restore and preserve these rights under a Republican form of government, pri vate monopolies of public necessities for speculative purposes, whether of the means of production, distribution or exchange, should be prohibited, and whenever any euch public necessity or utility becomes a monopoly in private hands, the people of the municipality, state or union, as the case may be. shall appropriate the same by right of eminent domain, paying a just value therefor, and operate them for, and in the interest of, the whole people. FINANCE. We demand a national currency. safe, sound and flex. ble; issued by the general government only ; a full legal tender for all debts and receivable for all dues, and an equitable and efficient means of distribution of this currency, directly to the people, at the minimum of expense and without the interven tion of banking corporations and in sufficient volume to transact the busi neps of the country on a cash basip. (a) We demand the free and unlim ited coinage of silver and gold at the legal ratio of 16 to 1. (b) We demand a graduated income tax. (c) That our national legislation shall be so framed in the future as not to build up one industry at the expense of another. (d) We believe that the money of the country should be kept as much as possible in the hands of the people, and hence we demand that all National and State revenues shall be. limited to the necepsary-expenses of the govern ment economically and honestly ad ministered. (e) We demand that postal savings banks be established by the govern meet for the safe deposit of savings of the people, and to facilitate exchange. () We are unalterably opposed to the if sue, by the United States, of in terest bearing bonds, and demand the payment of all coin obligations of the United States, as provided by existing laws, m either gold or silver coin, at the option of the government and not at the option of the creditor. TRANSPORTATION. (a) The government shall purchase or construct and operate a sufficient mileage of railroads to effectually con trol all rates of transportation on a just and equitable basis. (6) The telpgraph and telephone. like the postoffice system, being a ne cessity for the transmission of intelli gence, should be owned and operated by the government in the interest of the people. LAND. We demand that no land shall be held by corporations for speculative purposes or by railroads in excess of their needs as carriers, and all lands now owned by aliens should be re claimed by the government and held for actual settlers OLly. EXECTION OF UNITED STATES SENATORS. We demand the election of United States Senators by a direct vote of the people. That each State shall be di vided into two districts of nearly equal voting population, and that Senators from each shall be elected by the people of the district. DISTRICT LEGISLATION. Relying upon the good, common sense of the American people, and be lieving that a majority of them, when uninfluenced by party prejudice, will vote right on all questions submitted to them on their merit ; and, further, to effectually annihilate the pernicious lobby in legislation, we demand direct legisla'ion by means of the initiative and referendum. R. A. SOUTHWORTH. Bec'y-Treaa. N. F. A. and I. U. 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