ROME IN MEXICO | AdventAI

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Mar 4, 1889

ROME IN MEXICO.

In these days, when it is considered an evidence of intelligence and liberality to encourage Roman Catholic aggression in the United States, it is well to note what transpires in the adjoining Republic of Mexico. What the real feeling and endeavor of Romanism actually is, may be seen in the following extract from a letter by Mr. F. R. Guernsey to the Boston Herald. This well-known American resident in Mexico writes: "The two great political parties of Mexico are the Liberals and Conservatives, or Clericals. The first named party is that in power, whose chief is General Porfirio Diaz, and it is the party of popular education, the promoter of railways and of every kind of material improvement—in a word, the party of modern ideas. Its ultimate aim is to educate the masses of the Mexican people till they are fit to exercise intelligently the suffrage. The second party, which has for many years been the party of the opposition, does not acknowledge the authority of the Constitution, and therefore, is not a constitutional party. It is, in point of fact, a chronic rebellion, a perpetual protest against every idea which the liberty party stands for. It believes in abolishing the public schools and relegating education to the priests. It has bitterly opposed the building of the great railways which unite Mexico to the railway system of the Northern Republic. It contains within its ranks the diminishing party of imperialism, and its traditions and hopes are largely monarchial. If it ever gets into power it will throw the present Constitution overboard and establish a clerico-civil form of government, such as exists to-day in Ecuador, the only Spanish-American country where the Liberal party (universal in the Latin countries of this hemisphere) is not in power."

—N. Y. Observer.