Our Mexican Muddle Author:Henry Morris Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER OF THE MILITARY LEADERS AND THE ABOUT WAR In considering the fighting capabilities of the Mexicans of the present time we may also discover what m... more »anner of men were those who directed the destinies of the ill-fated country from 1823 until 1884, and we also can learn much concerning the character of the "disturbers" who launched the revolt of 1910, with analogous comparison, showing that the patriots of the period 1823-1884 were of the same type as the bandit patriots of the present time, and learn also that the historical or political records of Mexico do not show a single instance wherein one or all of them, with the possible exception of Porfirio Diaz, benefited the people of Mexico in any manner. Diaz should be named: '' The Beneficent.'' A brief recital of the performances of the so-called liberators, commencing with Hidalgo and ending with Madero, will show that the endless procession of patriots, liberators, martyrs, emperors, dictators, presidents, and the unsuccessful aspirants for such honors, were, one and all, vain-glorious, bombastical, selfish, deceitful, cruel, unreliable, impractical, inexperienced, ignorant, intolerant, cowardly, and, of all creatures, were the last persons on earth qualified to govern the changeable and heterogeneous hybrids of Mexico. But the United States contains many arbitrary persons of considerable political prominence—hence impractical, mistaken, hurtful, or designedly pernicious, who believe, or pretend to believe, that men of the type referred to should be permitted to perpetuate the horrors with which they ravished and convulsed Mexico for no less than seventy years. We must not interfere; oh no, nor intervene, however great theprovocation. We must let the Mexican people work out their own salvation—as though such ...« less