WHAT HE SAW IN MEXICO.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVIII, Issue 41, 11 October 1900, Page 20

WHAT HE SAW IN MEXICO.

Mrt. Guernsey, a well-known non-Catholic writer, who has been making a study of the people of Mexico, aays in a recent issue of theßos'on Herald ■ — 1 People here are too polite to be so disagreeable. The insolent swaggerers of the pavtipent, the tob\cco-spitting brutes of the stmt corners, and the bad small boys, old in deviltry, are not in evidence in the Mexican small town. Kven the poorest peon you mtet answers a talute with the t;race of an old hidalgo.' We cannot forh<ar repeutw g the closing paragraph of that letter .—. — ' Gorernor Rollins of Hainr>shir» ,' he -.iys. ' would find no lack of religious interest in Muse little M* xiean towns. They con pare well in morality, home coin ort and I appn ess, and in every essential of human well-being with small American towns. They lack the gtrressive, inquiring s-p rit of our nice and do not sbare our irreverence. I was struck with some articles in the Atlantic Monthly on New England countiy town life, and it seenitd to me that Mexico could make a good showing in c mparison. Religion is not decadent here, and there is a general courtesy worth imitatii.g. And \et, we read of the luck of true civilisation in Mexico 1 Rubbi-h That will do to talk to ocean cavalrymen, not to men who know Mexico as it r, ally is.'