Viewing page 65 of 101

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

and said that all their misery & bad gov't came from the ignorance of the masses.

While quite right in many of his deductions, he showed the unreasoning impulsiveness of his race in his rabid denial of all good in the present gov't and claimed that a state of revolution was better than the present dictatorship under the guise of a republic.

To a foreigner however the relative security to life & property throughout Mex. is a very pleasant thing as compared with the condition of affairs a few years ago.

Juarez is regarded by this same man & others of his same feeling as Mexico's greatest man.

Among other things I could not but notice the characteristic failing of his countrymen in his studying at the same time 3 or 4 branches of science & speaking of some of the leading scientific men of Mex. as being