WHERE MEXICO LEADS

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Aug 23, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 34.

WHERE MEXICO LEADS.

WHILE Mexico is generally deemed—from this side of the line—as behind the great American Republic in what popularly passes for Christianity, she has some points to her credit. Writing from Puebla, under date of the 6th inst., Mr. F. S. Borton says:

Mexico is taking vast and rapid strides forward in temperance work. Mrs. A. N. Fields, of the W. C. T. U., was here for three years and succeeded in interesting the governors of several states, as well as the mayors of many cities in the great work. In Mexico City the regulations governing the selling of liquor are very strict, and any infringement of the police regulations is severely punished. Such a thing as a "pull" is unknown here, and the law is law, stern and relentless for all alike. Mexico City is probably one of the best governed and best policed cities of the world. The way of the transgressor (of the law) is hard down here, mighty hard, and the American saloon-keeper here who would "make it all right" with the "ward boss" in the United States, finds that he has to "walk softly" when it comes to trying anything of the sort with the Mexican police. Here there are no "bosses," no "ward heelers"—all those elements of modern United States civilization are absolutely unknown in Aztec land. Law here is spelled with big capital letters.