Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1884-05-23
HO FOR MEXICO!
The tmmensify or Estates and the
Want or fmmi grafton.

The tmmensify or Estates and the
Want or immigration.
Mexico Letter III New York World.
No mere workingman should come to
this country. Nniodv should come ex-
cept manufacturers, contra tors. mine
developers. reconstrncters. large farm
ers AMI drorers -men With clpitai. skill
ami pluck. or these there Is abund-
ant ROOM and abundant leward
John igeiow las written of the
peon, !.ere: -. the l0,000,OO0 OF
people II Ae.i fal,y three, Iuarters
are md ans. txt-thirds of whom cannot
read nor ever la an ancestor who
coald, WHO never lent in IL bed or wore
II stochin. Il nj h. .re accn, tome to
i've at Mailer rer day than
farm horse ''ost i'll any New
England state" Tu - probably within
the truth. American lab Jr cannot COM
pete with this But a great deal OF
money Is yet to be male here by tho ,e
who invest n drainage companies. in
irrig alton and reclama ion companies,
in the manufacture OF paper, cotton and
WOODEN cloth, and hardware, in dredg.
ing and bre ikwater building, in goo ho-
tells aud boar iing-honse;, in petroleum
we is and reineries, in district tele.
graph and telephone companies.
Ne >ico produces every metal that
science has named and yields half the
stock of exist ng silver in the world.
in her mani old harvest is every fruit
and vegetable pro luct between the
equator and pole'. Though the
A1tecs made their hatchets of copper
and tin, her deposits OF iron are unsur-
passed, giving to enterprise and energy
an unlimited field of action.
But before there can come high pros
perity and permanent happiness to
Mexico the common people poems
must he lifted from degradation to
education, selfsupport and self
respect. This can not happen till
another Juarez rises and breaks
the prevalent land-tenure as that il
lustrious Indian broke the church
tenure. There are 10000, 900 people in
Mexico, but al the land is owned by
some $4,000 of them That is, only
one i'll 800 own any OF the so |, and this
one is generally descendant of tho 'e
who seized the land under the devout
prince of liars and br.gands, fernando
Cortez, vino ravaged and plundered
this lovely land in the name of God.
There are no small farms in Mexico,
nothing but vast haciendas, enormous
estates, whose homestead is fortress
of masonry, high wa Is and frown-
ing. and whose laborers are often
little better than slaves. Some
of these haciendas embrace within
sands of square miles, including cities
and towns. One, l have heard, on the
line of the Nat onal railway, contains
no less than 1900 square miles! These
are not held for speculative purposes
like the great areas in Dakota and Mon
tana, to be sold by-and-by to the peo-
pie, but are kept for what can be
tilched from their depreciating acres
year by year by aristocratic owners,
who often live in New York or in some
of the great cities of Europe and as in
dolently receive their tribute as did the
Aztec Caciques of old.
For Mexico there can he no perma-
nent prosperity while this feudal system
prevails and the great body of the peo.
pie are excluded from their inheritance.
Without land or at least the possibility
of land, the laborer is enervated, de-
prived of enterprise, ingenuity, ambi-
ton, hope.
The government feels the need of i'm
migration, so it offers large bonus for
all foreigners who come. Agents are
employed to bring settlers into the
country. and $40 or $50 head is paid
for every immigrant. and each helpless
one gets % cents day til he can sup
port himself This becomes often
a mere scheme of charity for loaf
er'. The plan is of course in
adequate. No liberal bonus to settlers
will solve the problem. It will be
solved to the benefit of all when the
great feudal lords, the untitled nobility
of this realm of eternal summer, come
to comprehend that this is the nine
teenth century instead OF the sixteenth,
and when every haciendado, grown en-.
lightened, voluntarily relind uishes half
of his land to the state, to be given
away to actual settlers. Then no bonus
will be needed to fill the land with en-
terprise and wealth. The average cit;-
zen of our day, like the NEUROLOGICAL
hero of old Greece, acquires new
strength whAn hn "on tnn"h tho Ground.
Royalty aud = .0bbery.
lie r in Philadelphia Record
Speaking of coats of-arms, q friend
of mine some time ago busted herself
in making collection of crests, mono.
grams and things of that sort, which
she pasted in a scrap-book. Having o
number of foreign friends, she was en-
abled to get some very fine specimens
of foreign coats -of-arms; but the most
gorgeous one in the entire collection,
one that was at least an inch and half
in length and breadth, and was colored
with every color of the rainbow, was
that of the Astors, and the simplest one
was that of Queen Victoria. The latter