Our Mexican muddle . passion was so intense, and hypocrisy so pronounced, and crocodiletears so dense, that every reality was hidden—all save the fact thatit watchfully waited. 72 OUR MEXICAN MUDDLE Yet, unless we end these examples of horrible savagery at ourvery doors, the barbarities will continue forever—and we maywell claim that political Washington shall escape responsibility. Who, in reality, is responsible for such barbarity at our veryportals ? Shall we lay the blame upon unthinking and unreasoningMexicans, or upon the one power which permitted certain Mexicanleaders to do these awful
Our Mexican muddle . passion was so intense, and hypocrisy so pronounced, and crocodiletears so dense, that every reality was hidden—all save the fact thatit watchfully waited. 72 OUR MEXICAN MUDDLE Yet, unless we end these examples of horrible savagery at ourvery doors, the barbarities will continue forever—and we maywell claim that political Washington shall escape responsibility. Who, in reality, is responsible for such barbarity at our veryportals ? Shall we lay the blame upon unthinking and unreasoningMexicans, or upon the one power which permitted certain Mexicanleaders to do these awful things ? Is it difficult to place the blamewhere it belongs? Are we consistent in trying to transfer the burden of responsi-bility from where it belongs and place same upon the shouldersof ignorant, semi-savages? And is it to be said of the Americanpeople that we permitted political Washington to lull us to sleepwith lyre-like melodies—melodies that no man may warble unlesshe hath a great passion for humanity?. (5 it O uj l/i —x- — JO 7-C -> — urt o r: o O 3:5 ex. 1* X ^ ~ 3 u t/j ^ 3 £ S- a-O >~ ?J zz -*-* — *3 TJ !H > rt uj _i -T (J ?a, >- OS ^ <?u Ux ? SECTION II I RELIGION —MADERO THE TRICKSTERI —AMBASSADOR WILSON CHAPTER X RELIGIOUS COMPLICATIONS—HOW THE CATHOLIC CLEKGY ARE PERSECUTED AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY DENIED ALL SECTS The year 1873 was momentous because of the fact that Mexicocelebrated the opening of its first railroad. But the year date willremain fixed in the memory of men as a period to be associatedwith similar periods of the worlds history, when mens souls wereriven and taxed beyond endurance. France had its St. Bartholomew (1572) and a great revolu-tion (1793) and England had religious wars, also of a remote date,but it remained for Mexico to turn back the hands of time not onlyin 1873, but also in 1915. We refer to the fact that the year 1873 was momentous in thehistory of Mexico, for that year was a period made infamous by
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