Field Notebook: Mexico 1906
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carriages, the occupants very largely being ladies. A few of the poor natives are allowed to see the char. One is impressed here as elsewhere that the wealthy are the only ones to consider or try to think for. The just contrast in Mexico is remarkable and rarely does one see a well dressed native Indian. The middle ground seem to be mixed people - Indian and Spanist. Outside of the scientific side of Mexico I do not care much for my surroundings. On one side it is atject poverty, dirt, disease and cripples, and on the other in a small minority it is ease and lofty assumptions. Oh who will this world lord once after the dirty, ignorant masses, the workers and producers of the com- munity. Every I do not care to come into contact with these poor for or or any one sees their diseases, sore eyes and worse.