New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-06-05
THE REJECTED MEXICAN TREATY.

THE REJECTED MEXICAN TREATY.
The rejected treaty with Mexico, so far from
afrording q basis, as The ~ Y Times would have
us believe, "upon which our yexatious and dam
"gerous relations with that country could be per-
"manently and amicably adjusted" would only
have served, had it been ratified to open the door
to relations with that country infinitely more vexa
tious and dangerous than those which at present
exist. Our present relations with Mexico are vex-
atious enough, but we are not aware of any great
danger in them. That is more than could be said
of the relations in which the rejected treaty threat
ened to involve us. BY that treaty we were, in
substance to assume the upholding OF the Juarez
administration, and the putting down of the oppO-
site faction In order to give any validity to the
treaty. so far as it conferred upon us any privi-
lepes of transit or commerce, we should have been
under the necessity of sustaining the Liberal party
in the complete establishment of their authority,
and not only in its establishment but in its mainte
nance also. What security was there that the
four millions of dollars of which this treaty re-
CURED the advance our part would have suiliced
for that purpose BY having obtained from us
this first subsidy, the Liberal party, as it calls
itself would have laid the foundation for new calls
of the same sort to unlimited extent.
We should, in ratifying the treaty, have taken the
first step in an involvement of which it Is mpossi-
BILE to see the end. From being the upholders of
one of the factions by which that unhappy country
is divided, we should have been exposed to the
danger of becoming principal in the contest, and
perhaps not merely Of fighting the Church party,
but the very party with which we had negotiated
the treaty Concessions made under the pressure
of an urgent necessity not of any great value.
IL il admitted on all hands that nothing but the
extreme pecunaIy needs of Juarez would ever
have induced him to sign the treaty. That is but
bad guaranty for its scrupUlous fulfllment. 1t
has been.made in defiance of the popular senti.
ment and those who have made it, if not indis-
posed, might have found themselves unable to
enforce it, except at the risk of pronunciamento
against them.
While thus opening the way to new relations with
Mexico, likely enough TO end in a war of conquest,
the causes which have produced our present
and former troubles with that country would still
baye remained in full force. 1t is oil very fine to
laud Juarez ard those who side with him as tde
enlightened friends Of freedom and progress, and
TO denounce the other party as heather and blood
thirsty conservatives. Both parties, however, are
Mexcans. both shsre the national peculiarities,
both participate in the prfjudces against MS which
our invasion OF Mexico engendered, aud both are
equally indisposed to concede anything more to us
than circumstances may make absolutely neces-
sary
Passing from the alleged political benefits of the
treaty, The ~ \. Times sets forth as the economi.
cal results which might have been expected from
it, ga new era of prosperity opened to our people
4" in the amazing stimulus that would be given to
" commerce, manufactures, trade, aud, in fact,
every branch of industry" Now this is simply
absurd. Mexico is very poor country. 1t will
take something more than the triumph of the party
of Juarez to make her rich and productive, and
until that happens, it would scarcely be possible
for her to give the promised impulse to our trade
and manufactures. OF the imported articles
which Mexico consumes, very few are drawn from
us. Of our agricultural products, which make up
the great bulk of our exports, she has no need
The imported articles she principally consumes are
mabu actures only a small portion of which we
are likely to supply. As to obtaining any treaty
monopoly of the Mexican trade, that is out of the
question. The time for such things has gone by.
Any increase of the Mexican trade, which, to
moderate extent-and only to moderate extent,
could any increase be expected-might result from
a reduction of duties, or from the establishment
of peace ard order, must be shared BY the nalious
of Europe, who would continue, as they all along
have done, to eDgross the bulk of the Mexican
traffic II would be very easy for us to spead
more in one year by taking part in the civil con.
tests of Mexico, and engaging in the task of re-
storing order than all the profits of the Mexican
rade would amount TO in twenty.
PACIFIC RAILROAD.
Another effort is to be made this week 10 secure