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MONDAY, MARCH 2 1. 1913.
BANCROFT’S VIEWS ON MEXICO
"An anarchic nr revolutionary
condition seems liesl In suit Mex
icans; before Diaz's time they had
il and will now have it again.
"And limes will lie worse be
fore they are heller. That Mex
ico, lamed ,hy prosperity, and
restless under a long peace, now
seeks the excitement that leads to
anarchy all who know I lie people
are forced to admit.''
The foregoing are ipiolatioiis
from a chapter on comparative
republicanism in Hubert Howe
Bancroft's hook. “Retrospection,’’
written early in 1912 when I tie
venerable historian had reached
the age of SO years. 'His proph
ecies proved true. Mexico accept
ed Madcro and revolution. Now
Madero is deposed and killed and
another comes forward evidently
aiming to rule as did Pordrio
Diaz.
The host hope ol peace ami or
der in Mexico seems to resl in the
plan to rule (irmly in the fash
ion of the dictator, <itherwi.se rev
olution will continue, for as Mr.
Bancroft well points out, a pop
ular government presupposes
“people,” and there were no peo
ple. There is an aristocracy that
would not work hut is willing to
govern. Then there is the mo/.o
or servile class. Between these
classes there is little or nothing
in the way of responsible popu
lal ion.
Mexico lacks the strong and
stable middle class that restrains
and sustains those in office in
English-speaking countries. It
has the extremes of rich aristoc
racy at the lop and poor amt ig
norant at the bottom. The am
bitious and designing' work suc
cessfully on the ignorance of the
lower classes, and so there is rev
olution.
Mr. Bancroft enjoyed a close
personal acquaintance with Por
lirio Diaz. He visited Mexico,
studied the country and its peo
ple and wrote of its resources, lie
became a warm admirer of the
old Mexican and in “Retrospec
tion" he praises Diaz’s rule as
the “only kind of government that
would save the country from an
archy and endless revolutions.”
While gal boring material for his
hook fin "The Resources of Mex
ico.'’ Mr. Bancroft had occasion
to call at the offices of the presi
dent and his ministers and he was
also entertained ill their private
residences. During inese visits
from time to lime." writes Mr.
Bancroft in "Krlrospect ion,” "I
went with den. Diaz over his en
tire career, touching1 the strings
which soumleil Ins inner nature,
until I came to know him well,
anil to umlerslaml tiis idiosyn
crasies and aspirations at I lie tie
ginning and his hopes and en
deavors toward the end. 1 had ev
ery opportunity of studying1 the
man at (dose range. And this is
what I came to know: In his
mind and heart, in public and in
private, that he was direct and
sincere in all his ways, and Dial
tie was devoid of avarice and car
ed little for personal aggrandize
ment. Therefore, when I heard
of his treatment at the hands of
his people I was shocked, and
grieved beyond measure over the
mistake the ... deluded mestizos
were making."
Vet Mr. Bancroft freely admits
that the character of Diaz's rule
was uni truly republican. The
government was republican in
form but not in fad. The people
wen* not prepared for a govern
ment. truly republican, and we im
agine that today Mr. Bancroft
reads the latest, news from Mex
ico and llnds in it ample verifi
cation of his viifws and predic
tions expressed several months
ago.
Now Mexico appears to b>
swinging back to the firm kind of
rule under Diaz. Gen. Huerta,
provisional president, gives some
promise of moving promptly and
effectively for the suppression of
insurrectionists, while another
military leader, Felix Diaz, a
nephew of the exiled president,'is
to become a candidate for the
presidency at the election short
ly to he called.
They are still clinging lo the
republican form, though il is
plain that I lie procedure is not
such as would he feasible in a
republic like the United States.
Old Porlirio Diaz, in exile, says
he will return to his beloved Mex
ico when conditions are more set
tled and his appearance will not
tend lo create a disturbance. The
new government lias ordered I lie
pictures of the venerable man re
stored to the places where they
were before the Madero revolu
tion and matters generally seem
to he shaping themselves for an
|olher administration fashioned
j after that of Porlirio Diaz. No
| doubt, if Diaz returns, he will he
I hailed as a national benefactor.
"The dictatorship of Diaz in
Mexico, writes Hancrofl, “was a
good government, the best possi
ble tor I hat people, and one of t he
bosl in the two Americas. The
cloak of republicanism flhrown
over il exerted little influence for
good or ill, other than to recon
cile the people lo what sometimes
might otherwise he deemed arbi
trary measures. If in its demo
cratic inoipiency I lie rulers of
'Mexico did not realize the im
possibility of a republic without
a people, of I rue republicanism or
a government by the people in the
absence of a people capable of
self-government, they did not
hesitate twice lo decline imper
lansm, once ill I lie person in
IturliiiJe, anil again when Miaxi
milian came. If they could not
al once achieve perfect republi
canism they would at least hold
t*o tlie form while laboring lu
..mplish the fact.’'
A dictatorship is much In he
preferred lo anarchy, which has
threatened or existed in Mexico
for months. The necessities of
tlie situation may he met by I lie
military leaders now in power.—
Ex.
At Home at the Valdez Mercantile
Company.
For Hie past few weeks I lie la
dies of the Epiphany Guild have
been industriously plyhig their
needles, modeling caps—dusting
caps, automobile or traveling
caps, boudoir caps, party caps,
caps to suit all tastes and needs;
or if the caps in stock are md just
what, you want the Guild will very
gladly make others to order.
The Valdez Mercantile Go. have
kindly allowed I he ladies Hour
space in I heir store for the sale,
which will be on Thursday af
lernomi and Friday.
FOR RENT—Five room house
on Sherman SI. Inquire of Mrs.
II. I.navel.
If you want all the news all the
time, read (he Prospector.
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Notice of First Hostings of Dt
rootors and Stockholders of
Hineral King Hining Company.
Notice is hereby, given toy the
undersigned, a majority of the
persons named, in the articles of
incorporation of the Mineral King
Mining Company, a corporation
formed under the laws of the Tor
iritory of Alaska and the articles
of incorporation whereof were
j filed on March 17, 1913, in the of
| lice of the clerk of the district
court of the Third division of said
Territory at Valdez, Alaska, as the
first board <>f directors of said
corporation, to George H. Her
mann, A. A. Evermann and Albert
II. Will more, who are all the per
sons named in said articles as
composing said first board of di
rectors, that a regular meeting of
said board of directors, being the
'first meeting of said board,
'will be convened and held
[ for t lie purposes of com
ji'Ieling the organization of said
j corporal ion, offering its capital
|slock for subscription, and trails- ,
acting any other business of said
(corporation that may properly'be |
[brought before said board, on the i
Icnlli day of April. 1913, at 3i
o'clock p. m., at the bunkhouse of |
the Mineral King Mine on Betties t
Bay, Port. Wells, Alaska,
i And notice is also hereby giv- i
ien by the undersigned to all whom
[it may concern that a regular
[meeting, being the first meeting, |
of (lie stockholders of said cor-!
novation, including all subscrib
ers for said capital thereof, will
he convened and held, for the pur
noses of making and adopting by
laws for its government and
transacting any other business of
said corporation that may prop
erly he brought before said stock
holders. on said tenth day of Ap
ril, 1913, at four o’clock p. in.,
at said bunkhouse of the Mineral
King Mine on Bottles Bay, Port.
Wells, Alaska.
Dated at Valdez. Alaska, this
17th day of March, 1913. !
GEORGE H. HERMANN. t
A. A. EVERMANN,
Directors.
First put). March )7, 1913.
I.ast pub. April 8, 1913.
NOTICE OP HEARING OF FINAL
ACCOUNT.
n lh;> United Slates Commission
er's Court, ex Officio Judge in
Probate, Valdez Precinct, Ter
ritory of Alaska, Third Judic
ial Division.
In the matter of the estate of
„ouis Camicia, deceased, James
Fish and W. H. Caswell, adminis
trators.—Notice of Hearing of Fi
nal Account. •
Notice is hereby given that
James Fish and \V. H. Caswell,
administrators of the estate of
Louis Camicia, deceased, have
rendered, filed and nresented~Tor
settlement their final account and
report of their administration of
;lbe said estate, and that the 21st
day of April, 1913, at the hour of
2 o’clock p. in. of said day, at the
office of Thomas R. Shepard, ex
officio judge in probate of the
Valdez precinct, at Valdez, Alaska,
has been duly appointed by the
said court at the time and place
of settlement of said final account
and report, at which time and
place any person interested in
said estate may appear and file
his objections and exceptions to
isaid final account and report.
! Dated at Valdez, Alaska, this
'19th dav of February, 1913.
i JAMES FISH. |
W. II. CASWELL,
Administrators of the Estate of
I Louis Camicia, deceased.
Date of first pub. Feb. 19, 1913. ;
I Date of last pul). April 21.1913 i
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Ironingwith ordinary
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