Arizona weekly citizen., 1886-11-20
Commercial Relations with Mexico.
HFRMosTLI,o. O,,o,a, oe,b Isse

'i''eN " 'Ne gratitude or my people,
 which am happy to now accord to you
 l ID highly Conscious of the vastly i'm
 portaut seryIce made to the interests of my country by illustrating ynur owp
 grand elements of solI, You so generous
 ly give your valuable sid to the efforts
 Of those a'Piring to re.hze a work so
 Do5le, but so difficult too.
 have iou0d u hard to resist the very
 natural Slsh oi drawing here, the verS
 tirst of all. d spienGIi picture of Ehe land
 winch l am proud to Call my country
 auth her I'''is blue skIes, Der gOid-au1
 ruby sun; wUh ih- Urea Gres heretofore
 uudreamed of, and kept sac from the
 "AurI sHcra flames" Tn the soil of h-r
 Vast and verdant prairie-, under the
 majestic d"mes of her superb mOuntaIns
 and the sacred arcana Cf hrr seas.
 And, to speak u"thipR but he truth, that
 should, and "ught To be, also, mp first step, were l to wIite the-e lues for men
 Of the rhcr helOnR tc, R- Se are so apt
 to run after every thiug that IS glitter
 ln 7, halluciHHtlng hbd suree1us; and to
 proclaim truths a- well As falsehoOds,
 provided that the sage or ths Qnack that
 perns's item have WIt enough to clo;he
 them with the rich array of language
 and fiction
 But let me repeBt #, Mir. Editor, 1
 have the honor to know we'll ihe Dollar
 man, B"d sm, of cnur-e, well aware thst
 the ouly way to muster him Is to cOu
 v'uce him; and tSat he aGmires fine aud
 srandiiOqneot taking wn-u he rrads
 Bry Rnt hnd Whit,Ief, bat only expects llsin word and cold reasoning, from the
 man that proposes bim blsinesS. Let us go, then, dire -tly tO the facts
 that support my tbeSIs.
 It has long bee" the aim of the gov
 .rnment Of th- United ; ates as well as
 Iha: of tbe Ame.IcAI cJnmeroe aI Iu- dustry to mpno,o e, hs it Were, the
 trad. with nu' K paoiic. sucse s-Ively or
 simul faneuusiy. according 10 times HnG epochs. in the hands of Spain, Franc
 aud G-rm.Dy Aud on investigating the r-a-ous for whirh the commercial re-
 laii ns of M-1Ico wl.h those countries
 have b.e1 70 Ing n-aIntaIn' d and more | or less stretched. We tjud that very ear | ly ex xplainei, as to our parent country. | by our iientIry of language aud uses.
 and maIuly by our close relativeness;
 adv .ntages of which that ihapoS
 c ruutry nas 10, ltitei ss 1t cOul | l owing 10 lis political mIsfortunes and
 most of all 10 the character Of tue Spau-
 ish people, whin1 IS very good one tu
 make as many Cids AS you will, but not
 n sInEle Jay Gould
 But where must We look for the cause
 of uur se ding so large part of the
 products nf our minee tO the markets of
 Par g Rnd Ly ms for our fancy go bds, or
 London or Berlin for opr manufactured
 with iB every fOrm2 r. nytody going fo Rllege the world reno RDed artistic taste fl ihe F eDch "ouvrler-," or The cnndIti ns of sohiIty and exc, llency
 that wHrr s.i: EuylI-h an l German man.
 ufsciurer-2 1 win mo nswer that he IS
 Sr. ng who contends European industry oXc-is ns much s- be will that ot Amer Ica. though II must not be uDdersIood there ls aIy icqnI--ceDce upon my part ID such premi---; but are all tn, B. ad- vantages grea. enough t stsud the com prison wI'h the immense ones of red by the trade with the UUited Ststes, con -IrtIDR of the greater chespness of the artIcl, and fr-Ights. safeUess of trans | purtHii ID and e'OB"my Of time? In DO | wsy, certainly, for as s general rule the | cheapest Is -old qu cksr than tue best. | ss we'll by the manufacturer to the mer- chant Bs by bim tO hi- customer.
 It follows, then. that there must toe ana + s reason. 70 be found ID @ superior order Of f-ct-, for th- comparative exi- gene, f ons trade win the U4ij,y;. |, oIRte-. and It beIug u,s pDs1csa So make a serI u s u Of every rtIcular Der fainng 70 my -u jet. will sIy, though | my fraLkne-s may appear liit!e rude | that the Am-rIc4n- do mt hold ihe first |
 an amongst the nations who m 4ke the | trade gIth MexI'o, for the simple res- son that they bAv- Tevrr applied their rcrustomrd sferdInass of wlll to that | otj [, or what x s lli wore, they h .v- nor known m this instance Ow 10 will |
 I do mt Sty that there are rot uum- erous old powerful motives for that Ger tam want of conideuce m each other uetter 70 say, for Its sIisteuc7-tha; ha- 70 lnng we4ke ed the eff lrts of both ou peOpies tu stran Sthan the natural forces | hat tend to form tha unity of their ID. tereetS aud sspIr t ops. | am so far from denying b rn that as said before. it Is precisely to ImDugn them and de- s-roy them that l Den these articles. But as l intend to make that part of m, work. the rubi-ct of "a separate chapter where it Ulil be duly developed, I r. sume. aud say that f The influence of th Anne ican commerce IS not predomi- nsntiy felt in our markets, il must he ascrihed t1 rhe fact that the Amrricat people have bevrr mad sny formal att temp, to produce hat rDd.
 Let Us try to prove it, never losing E. 'IRht of the facts. hs that IS the only ligh hat ctn gnid n in the ways of truth ' hen we have iu view any question practical as that which ;s occupying oar .tt-ntion.
 We have often seen m Sonora. and Of pu se our state IS not the only one of 'ur repuhlIc ID that respect, we have cen, say iu Sonora. from time imme norial not d-spisatle portion of . nr society formed by indivi r. sls of reign extrac Ion, citi- -Ds If the Uoit-d States fir the l0st Dart, wh ss honest, f-ir dealing Tgys emitting them to oar es'eem and esTeo;. have served. as was very nstur- l. as the means tO make ns regard then ! nh the same fraternsl feeling Bs If ! hey ware our own cOuotrymrn. And ley on their part. GbdIng n our GUS pms that urItv and simplicity which lAke, without a single exception IO the 7 lle. model wives and mothers of our i, '"men, ana a real paradise of our ones. they hec me ferv.nt lovers Of 2 leir adopted country, and though bu, fren of dreaming of 'brir native one. an never fad m theIr heart to abandon ,e Dne'Icsl and humble n .usI D whers |. ley are sn deeply an [ dearly cherished II Now it k very seldom that one Of U lem faIls tn fri y ID space Of time U lythiuV but lprg, the prize iu-ured t. L D hon's' Hi q steady laborer by th- ;, ws of nature anf society. And not .i lly ihI-, hu' IL is apparent too. that the :, an of the anglo -sxon rsce, whose ~ ood ia not over-heated nor h nature s. lhanstef by the torrId0ess of our eli .t ate, and who has in R word. pracucal =, IalIi les with which the latter rsce k ., ,t endowed, exceeds in the larger Ia Imher of cases, the effIr's Of the n atIve to .8lers towards the end ot prosperity b, ld success. I I have established this precedent onl,
 show that there gre not Y real dlf- ot iulties for the settlement of an Amer ,h D commercial and industrial colon, ii,