THE GLOBE. THURSDAY. JUNE 12, 1879.

Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1657, 12 June 1879, Page 2

THE GLOBE. THURSDAY. JUNE 12, 1879.

Mexico is looking np. It has determined to have an International Exhibition of its own. A circular has been issued on tho subject, setting forth the view's of the Mexican Government in entering upon tho experiment. Tho Exhibition will bo held in the city of Mexico next year, and tho Executive believe that the holding of it will rectify the errors which are afloat concerning the country, will extend tho actual markets and open new ones to the products of Mexican agriculture and industry, “ thereby paving the way to the solution of tho problem regarding the consti action and operation of railways in Mexico; of the no less difficult one regarding colonisation; and of others which, directly or indirectly, depend on those, and which embody tho secret of the peace and prosperity of the Republic.” In point of fact tho Mexican Government have come to tho conclusion that “ tho origin of tho greater evils which, until now, the country suffers, is an economical rather than a political one,” and so they are determined to make a new departure, and see what an attempt to enter into more intimate commercial relations with the world at largo will effect. As tho circular states—“ The present Administration, desirous of availing itself of its sad experience, is determined to inaugurate a now policy, and lay the foundation of an economical reform, without which it is impossible for the country to enter upon an ora of peace and true progress.” That the success of Mexico in her now undertaking will bo desired by all cannot for an instant be doubted. When a rake manfully determines to amend tho errors of his ways, to eschew sack and live cleanly, the public, which is generally benevolent when its purse is not attacked, will wish him well, especially when he prefaces his repentance by a frank confession of his former misdeeds. Mexico may bo said to hav# thrown away a considerable number of fortunes at one time or another. In possession of most fertile lauds its inhabitants have turned tho country into a pandemonium, and it is most satisfactory that a Government has at last been found for it, which is apparently determined to make a stand in tho direction of turning the rampant energies of the people into another groove than that of cutting each other’s throats. It is to bo hoped that those countries who will bo likely to find profit in establishing commercial relations with Mexico, will do their utmost towards lending a helping hand to tho repentant Republic. Mexico herself has a largo number of products, tho proper exhibition of which would bo both instructive and interesting. She must also possess numborless objects of historical interest which will carry back tho visitor to her Exhibition to the days of Cortes and his reckless companions. Some curios might also be added with advantage —such as a few boncla which have been duly honored or the body of a President who has died in his bod. o When our evening contemporary leaves off writing articles the principal point of which consists in printing all tho proper names in capital letters and takes up the Eatauswill lino, it becomes at once apparent in which lino its real genius lies. Its ordinary articles are feeble, but the Eatanswill business it works to perfection. Had tho immortal Pott himself penned last night’s loader, ho could hardly have done better than this:—“Tho sickly evening languisher became intlamed with a furious desire to write about Russia and Nihilism, and no doubt at this suggested effort dreams of some half-dozen additional pennies swelled the excitement in the managerial bosom.” This is an almost perfect specimen of penny-a-lining fury, for, if we overlook the fact that it is somewhat anomalous that a “ languisher ” should over become “ inflamed with a furious desire,” tho passage must be admitted as worthy of the mighty man who informed Mr. Pickwick that “ he wished tho people of Loudon and the people of the country at largo to know that they might roly upon him —that he was resolved to stand by them to the last.” And, after all, what matters an anomaly or two in an article abounding in passages of mystic obscurity. Take for instance tho following:—“When public writers in tho Press, aspiring to bo teachers and guides to the people, are found exhibiting deplorable ignorance of tho most notorious facts of history, such as they have recently witnessed in the columns of two of the leading journals of this city.” What, in tho name of all that is grammatical, does they moan hero? Roes it moan that tho public

writers have witnessed the notorious facts in two of the leading journals ? or does it mean that tho notorious facta have witnessed something else ? or is the whole sentence a totally new combination built on strict Eatanswillian principles ? Then, again, our modern Pott, in describing tho process of waiting, says, “As day after day has como and gone. How a day after a day can come and go is the sort of thing “ that no follow can bo expected to understand.” Indeed the whole article might ho worked quietly through, and now and wondrous combinations appear at every turn. But does in reality the “ Star” know anything more about tho subject it writes about than Mr Pott know about the public affairs he discussed so volubly in his journal ? It would appear not. Tho “ Star’s” idea of the French Revolution is that the Republicans did nothing but “ rule Franco with the guillotine and drench her soil with the blood of her nobility.” Let us recommend to our con temporary tho study of Carlyle, Lamartine, and several other eminent writers. His views may become enlarged by tho operation, and he may find that other blood than that of tho nobility was shed, and that tho Republicans were not a separate class who undertook to rule Franco, for the whole nation was Republican. Further, if ho were to road up a history of tho Commune ho would find that it did not consist entirely of lunatics “ running about and sotting fire to tho property of tho people of all Franco,” firstly, because tho Commune never had any practical power out of Paris, and secondly, because there were a number of men who joined tho Commune from conviction, and took no part in tho excesses that disgraced its latter days. Mr. Pott must certainly have known all about tho French Revolution, and, were he now in the flesh, would have certainly made himself acquainted with tho true history of tho Commune. Why, then, should the “Star” bo behind Mr. Pott. Surely, having shown itself tho equal of tho “ Eatanswill Gazette ” in ponny-a-lining declamation, tho “ Star ” should take good care not to bo behind it in historical knowledge. Let us give our contemporary a word of good advice. Three things are necessary for tho proper construction of an article on any subject whatsoever, namely, knowledge, good taste, and grammar. When all three are wanting, tho result is an unmitigated fiasco.