San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-08-20

ted States. Personally this action
does not injure me, as see for Mon
terey, on the completion of the rail-
road to Tamplco, the greatest smelt-
ing and manufacturing city on the
globe. AS an American prefer this
great trade of Mexico to go to the
| United States. If the business peo-
pie of the American government
don't wish TO have commercial rela-
tiOns with Mexico, we can stand it as
| Americans Interested here and we
will help this country to make the
| best business connection possible
with ngland-"Vive Mexico" Or
ganize a grand smelling company and
come to Monterey. We will soon
have connection with Liverpool and
| the coal mines of Mexico at Bene-
ditto. We will have white lead
and pipe factories, et., etc.
Mesers. Behr & Steiner, Bullion &
Ore merchants of New York, n. Y.
says:-"We believe that after care
full consideration of the question at is
sue at the various frontier custom
houses, that the ores will again be adj
NIT ed free and that all clamoring and
pressure to prevent this must fail and
that congress will have to clearly de-
fine and enact a new law bearing on
this particular case. The supreme
folly which would shut out this low
grade silver lead ore from our smelt-
ers and refiners and drive the bust
ness directly into the hands of foreign
ers, giving even the hauling of ores
to foreign vessels and stripping our
railways of it, entails duty even OH
the present protection administration
which it can't ignore by resembling
the we'll considered practice gifts pre-
decessors.
A prominent American citizen and
capitalist, now travelling in Mexico,
inves tigating the wonderful advant-
ages and inducements offered to
American capital and enterprise, in
that undeveloped country, under
nom de plume of NOccasionaW says
The ruling of the secretary of the
treasury has accomplished grand
result for the United States, provided
we wanted to cut off all commercial
relations with Mexico. Nine-tenths
of all the mines of Mexico contain
lead, silver, IRON and lime, the in
gradients needed by all American
smelters situated in Denver, Kansas
City, st. Louis and New Jersey.
Most of these large smelters will now
be forced to close down for the want
of fiuxing ore from Mexico. Ore mer-
chants will go to Europe for their
goods because England wants our
lead and will sell her fabric cheap
and load her vessels with coke and
coal to smet the ores. All of this
vast interest is out of, to enrich a
half dozen lead mine owners in the
United States. This may be wise
policy but we fail to see it. l have
never been a free treader, but few
more such moves as this will bring
a democrat victory, sin falta. The
railroads built in this country, largely
by Americans capital, will all have to
seek an outlet to the sea in order to
place Observation-Disclosures COMMUNICATION
with Liverpool. Thousands of tons
of good paying freight to the railroads
here, as well as to the American
roads will be lost. The Guadalupe
company are overhauling their fur
naces at Villaldama and in a short
time will be pouring out lead bullion
for Liverpool. Several hundred car
loads of ore along the Mexican Ma
tional railroad will have to unload
and go into the car sheds. Monterey
will now be the central point to erect
large smelters, as they have in course
or construction a railroad to Tampico,
from where they can ship direct to
England. Monterey had visit yes
terday from Sir Francis Deny's secre-
tary, who, in the absence of the min
lister of England, is performing his
duties. He was accompanied by Lord
Stanhope. These gentlemen are wide
awake and the latter is the repre-
sentative of the bondholders of Eng
land in the Mexican National rail-
road. did not discuss this action of
our secretary. I was so disguised, be-
sides I could not stand the grand
laugh of those English dignitaries.
They will doubtless take advantage
of the situation. They visited TOpo
Chico and said it was fine bath. The
survey of the extension of the Mon
terey and Mexican Gulf railroad has
been finished to BeneditO, on the
Mexican International, which con-
meets with the Southern Pacific at
Eagle Pass and also the Mexican Cen
trail railroad at Laredo