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The Great Men in the Mexican Con gress, Some Paul Pry of a Yankee who has rambled out to Mexico, gives a rambling sketch of the mem bers of Congress, noticing specially the «great men.» In one of his letters he says that the Mexican Congress is the most reserved and dignified public assemblage he ever saw (we presume that he never «saws a «Town Meeting» in Yankeeland); that everybody smokes and wears kid gloves; that only one member speaks at a time, and everybody lis tens to him in respectful silence, unlike the «bear garden» in Washington. This correspondent says, judging from the demeanor of confidence, the mem bers of the Mexican Congress are, generally, wise statesmen; he says Congress is specially prudent: fearing to do wrong, they do but very little, but that little is of unquestionable wisdom. In his sketches of the members, he says they are all good looking men, some of them even «very pretty;» that Martinez de la Torre is the aristocrat of the Chamber, is dignified as an Englishman, eloquent as an American, polished as a Frenchman and frank as a German, and is one of the best look ing men in the House. Porfirio Diaz is the «great and good man» of this correspondent; he says the whole nation is looking to Diaz to do something or other—what? whether revolutionary or in peace ful statesmanship, no one even conjectures, never theless, they look for something; he says that Diaz is honest as the days are long, and sincere as the first book of the revelations—that he is patriotic, brave and generous to the highest extreme. Mariano Riva Palacio, this correspondent says, is the father of the Republic, the wisest and most prudent man in public life, and is revered by men of all parties; that Guillermo Prieto is a poet whose poems are profound political wisdom, and whose statesmanship is as fanciful as the soul of poetry. He says that Roberto Hstora is long while Joaquin Alcalde is short; that Juan José Baz is the handsomest and smartest, while Angel Marti nez is the tallest, broadest and best proportioned. This correspondent says that Emilio Velasco haa had all of his Mexican polish rubbed off by contact with the Americans on the Rio Grande, but has acquired a large stock of the «common sense» of the latter, and is no slouch in international law or sound legislation; that Julio Zarate is a pretty little fellow, dapper as a milliner’s clerk, and has a large fund of sound practical republican ideas. And thus speaketh the Yankee correspondent, who has evi dently seen as much in a four days peep in Mex ico as Barnes did in Yankeeland—both are alike good authority, and their observations ought to be filed away for future reference.
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The Two Republics
Mexico City, Mexico, MX
Wed, Mar 03, 1875
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