Barbarous Mexico . AVAIFS, MOTHER AND SON, IN A MESON. TWENTY THOUSAND SLEEP THIS WAY EVERY NIGHT IN DIAZS CAPITAL ALONE. FLASHLIGHT I5Y THE AUTHOR. GROUP OF HOMELESS CHILDREN IN A CORNER OF A MESON, MID-NIGHT. THOUGH THESE PLACES ARE LICENSED BY THE AU-THORITIES, THERE IS NO SEGREGATION OF THE SEXES THE COUNTRY TEONS AND THE CITY POOR /ll9 than we have here. Yet, seeing the heart of Mexico, itis inconceivable that there could be more extreme pov-erty in all the world. India or China could not be worseoff, for if they were, acute starvation would depopulatethem. Mexico is a people starved—a na
Barbarous Mexico . AVAIFS, MOTHER AND SON, IN A MESON. TWENTY THOUSAND SLEEP THIS WAY EVERY NIGHT IN DIAZS CAPITAL ALONE. FLASHLIGHT I5Y THE AUTHOR. GROUP OF HOMELESS CHILDREN IN A CORNER OF A MESON, MID-NIGHT. THOUGH THESE PLACES ARE LICENSED BY THE AU-THORITIES, THERE IS NO SEGREGATION OF THE SEXES THE COUNTRY TEONS AND THE CITY POOR /ll9 than we have here. Yet, seeing the heart of Mexico, itis inconceivable that there could be more extreme pov-erty in all the world. India or China could not be worseoff, for if they were, acute starvation would depopulatethem. Mexico is a people starved—a nation is the reason? Who is to blame? rr^^ ^ -^ CHAPTER VII THE DIAZ SYSTEM The slavery and peonage of Mexico, the poverty andilliteracy, the general prostration of the people, are due,in my humble judgment, to the financial and politicalorganization that at present rules that country—in aword, to what I shall call the system of GeneralPorfirio Diaz. That these conditions can be traced in a measure tothe history of Mexico during past generations, is true. Ido not wish to be unfair to General Diaz in the leastdegree. The Span
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