Our Mexican muddle . SPANISH TORTURES According to the foregoing, it is evident that back of theveneer of civilization among the Mexicans, barbarism and savagerystill lurk, but we must remember that the Spaniard never attemptedto transfer to an alien race, especially a subject people, any partof the higher refinements which he applied to himself. Indeed, asis well proven, they implanted a curse upon all of those who feltthe crush of the conquerors brutal touch. In fact, the Dons introduced new tortures, and such in turnwere imitated by the Mexicans, but with added force; though, tothe credit o
Our Mexican muddle . SPANISH TORTURES According to the foregoing, it is evident that back of theveneer of civilization among the Mexicans, barbarism and savagerystill lurk, but we must remember that the Spaniard never attemptedto transfer to an alien race, especially a subject people, any partof the higher refinements which he applied to himself. Indeed, asis well proven, they implanted a curse upon all of those who feltthe crush of the conquerors brutal touch. In fact, the Dons introduced new tortures, and such in turnwere imitated by the Mexicans, but with added force; though, tothe credit of the latterbe it said, they eliminated the auto da fe, orthe human torch, a species of savagery which still survives in ourown very Christian and humane country—to our everlasting decry the Inquisition and the fact that men were burnt alivein Latin-America, but one hundred years have passed since suchacts of savagery took place in Mexico, or in any portion of all NorthAmerica, save in these United 4 GENERAL GENORERO DE LA O, A ZAPATISTANote the Mongolian Features—the Mixture of Malay, Hindoo and Mongolian CHAPTER II BKIEP ETHNOLOGIC SKETCH—SIMILARITY BETWEEN MEXICANS AND ASIATIC ORIENTALS—RACIAL CHARACTERISTICS—CITIES, RUINS, ETC. Late research shows that the so-called civilized races, or inhab-itants, of Mexico were known as the Toltecs, and that they appearedin Anahuac about the year 650 A. D. Evidently the Toltecs aban-doned Mexico about the tenth century, the Exodus being they went to South America or to Asia, or were prac-tically destroyed, is still a subject for conjecture or they were a race as far advanced in science and civilizationas the Orientals is proved by the fact that ruins of splendid citiesfounded by them survive to this day, and there is a striking simi-larity in the appearance of the ruins of the ancient cities ofMexico and of Central America, as compared with the ruins ofcertain places in Asia wh
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