Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-07-19

does not grow luxuriOusly In one or the
other of the States | have named which
the Texas Pacific viii open to American
markets, and | find on inquiry that there
Is this difference between Mexican fruit
growing and that in our southern terri
tories and Southern California;: With us
1t IS being developed into an agricultural
science. great care and close observation
beng Necessary. In Mexico, all fruit
grows spontaneously.
Other products. Besides fruit. cotton
Is raised extensively in Sinaloa. and cof-
lee, tobacco, indigo, and cochineal are
exported even now in large quantities.
The grapes in New Leon produce great
quantities of brandy, wine, and raisins.
The agriculture of these northern Mexi-
can States, like that of Arizona and New
Mexico, is carried on by primitive I'M
plements. They can obtain no other
until the Texas Pacific and its Mexican
branches bring the purchase and trans
pOrtatlon of machinery within the means
OF the poorer people.
Nobody can doubt. who investigates
the subject even specifically. that the
Texas Pacific will open Il new FL Dorado
In this region
The civil Discussions of the republic
OF Mexico are not likely to be less fire.
quert and embarrassing in the future
than they have been III the past. No
government has succeeded in maintain
ing itself any great length of time The
rival ambitions of leaders, the dissen-
slons IN council and the conflict of hos
tile factions, must always imperil popu-
lar government in a climate which of
itself is calculated to make the native
people volatile and uneasy and the
clinical traits of the native Mexicans.
their mixture of warm bloods, and their
fondness for polemics and politics, are
not adapted for the quiet plodding ways
of slowly building up commercial en-
terprise and maintaining it against the
melancholy effects of Encouragement
or disaster, or the partial energy and
shrewd management of competitors,
who, If less generous, are more can
ny" as the Scotch say. So long as the
central government of the republic of
Mexico is subject to the changes of vol
canic politics, agriculture and mining,
as well as manufactures, must suffer
under Mexican control, and civil war,
though confined to Il solitary, remote,
and narrow district, disturbs the com
mercial situation of the entire country,
making capital timid, frightening labor,
and injuring industry 1t would, there
fore, be TO the manifest benefit of the
Mexicans themselves to have an Ameri-
can railroad, with the calming infiu-
ence of American strength, temperance,
earnestness, and solidity, come into
their States, and create substantial
protection for their lives, property, and
business. The boundary line between
the two countries is not an unfriendly
one The intelligent Mexicans are de-
lightful social companions, amiable,
kind, and hospitable, and of the highest
integrity in affairs of business. They
would welcome American enterprise,
and the soil answers of itself as to the
result Of investment either III the rail
road stocks or III the agricultural or
fruit-raising lands, or the mines, which
the Texas Pacific will bring into the
market southwest of the Rio Grande.
Indeed, it Is very doubtful whether the
government can solve this border ques-
ton without the proposed railroad OF
one running over nearly the same route
pensive proceeding for both countries
No matter how it may originate, wal
with our sister republic would be dis
creditable to her and to us. No CUES
ton can arise between lis which arbitra-
ton may not settle better than arms and
the splitting of blood