Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-09-05
MEXICO'S FUTURE
What Senior Don Jose Otero Has to Say
About it-American Enterprise
Playing a
Important Part in the Good Work-The
Construction of Railways the
Promising Beginning.

NEW YoRK, September 1.-The R0id
publishes the following: Senor DON Jose
Otero, brigadier-general in the Mexican
army and representative OF the province OF
Sonora in the Mexicsn Senate, arrived in
this city yesterday and went 10 the Spanish
Hotel in West Fourteenth street. lie is se-
companied BY Senior B. 0viedo, who repre-
sents Sonora in the Lower House Of the
Mexican Congress. General Otero Eas in
terviewed yesterday By a World reporter with
regard 10 the alleged differences between po-
litical parties in The province Of Sonora, the
prospects OF the country and the aspect OF
Mexican matters generally.
I'm the first place." said General Otero, Il
must inform you of one thing, that Sonora
has been placed in q very false and unfsyor-
able hight before the American public. Fer
sonal disagreement have been msgniied into
party differences, and a revolution described
az imminent. Between Carlos Ortes, the
present governor, and Luis z. Torres, his
predecessor, there exists, ! believe, . personal
luminosity which has prompted the latter to
use his best endeayoIs to overthroE his sue
cessor. H has put himself 10 the trouble of
going to the City of Mexico, and has worked
hard with his friends there TO secure the
assistance of the Federal government in
overthrowing the present governor, but
without success. This, so far rs is known
TO every Mexican, is the sole foundation
for the revolutionary forecasts that have
been made by the wise men whose interest
it has been TO make them. Between
the republican government and that of
the province there exists the most perfect
harmony and good feeling, and everything is
going forward assmoothly as could be wished.
The articles which have appeared 10 the
New York papers present garbled statements
of facts. For instance, a Federal expedition
to the frontier under General Carlo, whose
object was merely to suppress the s paches
and protect the inhabitants from their raw
ages, was reported in the columns OF your
paper as a dispatch of General Carlo with
Federal forces to Guayamas to put Town the
present government
Are the people themselves in favor OF the
present government"
| "Well, speaking impartially, 1 do not
know that public sympathy has been more
with a governor than it is at present. Senior
: Ortes's rule gives general satisfaction and
I the country is in consequence prospecting
! every way. The interest taken in it by
!: Americans and the amount of American
| capital which is being invested in our in
4 dustries are working wonders. Americans
can feel sure that their money so invested il
as safe as it could be anywhere. We have
had no interneeine disturbances for five or
six years, and ia the general opinion the era
of revolutions is past. Our commerce is ex-
LCAuAIS 1dlkClN, dAO uuDdI6llctCu mlI-
eral resources are being rapidly developed.
As you say in this country, Everything is
booming Sonora has never seen such
times before. The change is affecting the
whole OF Mexico, and there is every indics-
ton that we are 10 become a great nation
How are the railroads getting on?'
The railroad from the city of Leon to
Guansjuato is already finished and open for
public traffic. The railroad from Laredo to
Monterey was opened yesterday and another
connecting Alfalfa with Durango, in the
State of Sinaloa, Is in course of construction.
AS 10 the Mexican Central, a good deal OF
traffic is already being carried over il,
though 1t will not be completed for two
years or so. Connecting the City of Mexico
journey from New York 10 our capital by
seven or eight days. The Sonora railroad
proper, connecting Benson, Ariz., with Quay
amas, is to be opened on the 18th of October
The Mexican minister OF finance has gone
down to T~eehuantepec to see that the rail
road across the isthmusi is brought to a speedy
completion. Thus, apart from our country
being one of the richest in regard 10 its ma
means OF opening them up 10 the world,
thanks TO the enterprise of Americans. Mex
leo is to-day an entirely different country
from Whist ii was five or six years ago, and a
few years will make a still more striking
change. With a just government, order in
our domestic concerns aud amicable relations
with foreign nations, the encouragement of
immigration and Investment of capital, /
think | may safely say hat our prospects are
at present as bright as those of any other in
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