The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1893-10-13
mExTco,s oFFER.

MEXICO's OFFER
Don Louis Terraszas, the wealthiest
and most prominent merchant of
northern Mexico and formerly govern
or of the state of chihuahua, gives his
views on the silver question as follows:
sour (Mexican) trade with the Uni
ted States as compared with that of En-
gland is almost nothing. We go to Eu-
rope for all our manufactured fabrics
and nearly all our mining and agricul-
tural machinery, in fact nearly every
thing produced by industrial labor.
This is absolutely true of Central and
South America. Now, sir, cannot but
deplore the blindness of your manufac-
turers, legislators and capitalists in
clamoring for recommendation. for, look,
sir, is it not fact that cannot be con-
troverted, that were the United States
tomorrow to adopt the free and unliIn-
tied coinage of silver at the ration of
1515 or 16 to 1, thereby making every
ounce of silver worth S1.29, would not
Mexico, Central and South America in
fact every silver producing country in
the world become at once the consumer
of your products, and we in turn sell
you our raw materials.
81 have heard your citizens say that
the United States would become the
dumping ground for silver. Now then,
in the first place, it would be impossi-
bic for you to get an ounce of silver in
to the United States except in ex-
change for you products. In the sec
ond place the Central and south Amer
lean countries are free coinage coun-
tries, and have the silver standard.
That being so, England, in her present
attitude towards silver will only allow
us the present London market price
(the market price being made by En-
gland.) No sane importer would buy
her pruducts, but instead, the United
States which is a nation that can rival
the old country in manufactures would
receive the entire trade of pan-America.
In other words, the traffic which is now
being carried on between this CONT
nent and Europe would be swept from
traffking of this western hemisphere.
Why, sir, in few years the United
States would be the greatest producer
and the financial center of the world
eve would go to your capitalists and
bankers to take our national, state,
municipal and industrial bonds and
other securities to the exclusion of the
foreign powers. Our Industries would
look to your investors for financial aid
as the entire American continent has
heretofore to Europe. Europe is com
PEELED to look to this continent to con-
sumo the product of her industries and
if she were shut out, her industrial
classes would sink to abject poverty.
Speaking fguratively, were Uncle Sam
to stick his thumbs in his vest holes
and say to Europe in Monroe doctri-
nal sort of way: old lady, I see through
the trick, you want to double your in
come and loan it to me. You double
your money and double my debt. I
can no longer tie to your apron strings,
but instead give my attention to the
prosperity and happiness of my chill
dren and myself.'
''Then Europe would beg for mercy
and prosperity would reign. This hem
isphere produces the silver and nearly
ali the gold and 1 ask, why one-half
the developing power of the world
which it has taken centuries to produce,
should be destroyed. Mexico, Central
America, South America and your own
western states are undeveloped and sill
yer is the motive power needed to do
the great work I regar,' the present |
opportunity as the grandest ever offered
nation situated as is the United States
to nal the most advantageous move
ever made on the political and fnan-
cial chess board of the world to her
everlasting glory and prosperity