Note 1 — VI
Reading edition
Since I wrote the above, the following item of news appeared in the Mexican Herald of February 11, 1908:
Forced to Wear Trousers Mountaineers Around Guanajuato Prefer to Pay Fines.
Special Dispatch to the Herald.
Guanajuato, February 10th.—The local treasury will soon be full to overflowing from the numerous fines collected from sons of the mountains who daily endeavor to enter this ancient town clad in cotton drawers. The law is strict in this particular, and the police in the suburbs have strict orders to see that no peon enters the town without a pair of factory-made trousers.
[It would be interesting to know who, in Guanajuato, owns the largest interest in the local trousers factory.]