New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-11-18

ments and machinery from spades ana anchors 10
mining engines and machinery and locomotives. Inc
plant will be an expensive but the capitalists VINO
are investing money In it have fear that their bust
ness will be disturbed or injured by free trade or tariff
agitation and the thing is true IN regard to every
other Industrial enterprise in the Republic, A..
what is the condition OF agricuiuife!' asked inc
well, Il is less Hourishing and encouragng. One
great obstacle 70 progress In agriculture IS the act ,
large proportion OF the land is In the hands OF COM
paratveiy These great estates are cultivated
and managed much as they were hundred years ago
The owners derive from them incomes large enongh
to maintain them In comfort and luxury In the city
Mexico San Francisco or Paris or wherever they
vent the taxing OF their lands and content to let
enough alone 1t would require great and constant
USoSson s. OF them have travelled and teach ana
persuade them to use modern implements machinery cry
and methods The poems cry "cui BONO ana the
proprietors repeat acu bono whenever the suggestion
that S hs Tns
mower, or reaper would accomplish great deal more
far % q ss end a ss fs
:, ".'1 Know " ss'' soa n,s' no q as country
Is the Government stablel' a..
Eyssyhng quiet and peaceful and Inv regard snsps he
American country. have been repeatedly sstonished
Sy the sbsnrdy .e misleading reports II regard
to Mexican affairs which have read In some OF our
foundation truth fact and the few that had we're s.se
extremely Injurious to Mexico. ,,.,,
:" President Dfaz regard as man OF great apnIty
he is also man of progressive ideas and sincerely
devoted to the welfare of his native country. ne
seems to possess In remarkable degree the peculiar
qualifications which necessary to govern country
like Mexioo-tact and gentleness, combined with iron
hrmness. courage and resolution Perhaps some people
would regard the acts of the Government as
tyraunical In some cases and upon some 0ccar
ions but II TINT be true 1t Is sort OF tyranny when
not admit that President Diaz is tyrant, but do
That at vino TWO aso
more wisely and successfully than welLmeanng but
better than anarchy for any country. But dld not
mean to plosophse or moranEe, nor do mean TO say
hat the Mexican people need yr"nt to aSr a
progress in many respects. The schools are wei
maintained and wellattended: and intelligence Is
spreading among the masses OF the people. Inc eA
through Mexico has naturally lea 10 dar S
infusion Of American ideas and influences. ana mas
immensely benefited the country and our relations WIN
it, Mexico buys from the United States good deal
more than she sells to IT, and that fact leads me to say
that 1t would be great benefit to me manufacturers
and merchants of this country II their business IN
Mexico was In the hands OF honest and capable Aneri
AS matters now stand large proportion OF the
trade In American goods Is carried on by Engnshmen
Germans and Frencmen who have settled In Mexico
and become thoroughly familiar with the angu ige,
They are thus enabled TO exert marked political, as
we'll commercial and social nnuence IN the Mexcan
capital as well in the commercial cities Where tey
I'VE. Judging from what have seen and heard during
that there is considerable difference between the Amer
can colony and the English colony or German COLONY
there and that the difference is MT in favor OF our cou
tryInen OF there thousands OF Intelligent
cultivated and highly respected Americans resident in
the Mexican Republic, bit am sorry to believe that
there are great many other Americans there OF a
country or promote confidence in respect for their
own"