Birmingham state herald., 1896-03-14
MELANCHOLY MEXICO.
r old free silver Mexico!


 Poor, degraded, 50-cent dollar MeXicoi | The gold standard English are so, sorry l for that benighted and wretched country that, noble philanthropists that they are they are planllng down more monsy there than was eyer known in the history | of the country
 MT. Henry Butters of California has just closed a deal by which the entire railroad systems of the City of Mexico are to pass into the hands of an English syndicate, the consideration being mat ter of s, ,50O, 900; and that much more, it ic promised, will be expended in perma- nent improvement.
 Then, too, be it remembered to his cred it, big-hearted Barney Barnato also of England, has headed a $25 coo syndi- cate to invest in Mexican lands and ag- ricultural and mining interests. These English people do beat the world hunting for countries where they can exercise true Christian charity. Barney Barnato made more millions in South Africa than he knew what to do with, and like the great good soul heI is, he is going to dump some of them into poor old silver basis Mexico.
 
 Steel, not political paper or a silverloon either, and says: "A gentleman just from the City of Mexico declares it is impossible to get anything like comforta- ble accommodations in the city because of the rush. Every hotel is filled to over- flowing and the country is undergoing a Veritable boom.
 Of course all this is because people in different parts of the world are realizing that there is nowhere that good sound money can accomplish more for humani- ty than in Mexico, where the financial system is on a silver basis. These gener- ous foreigners from England and other gold standard countries are wing with each other in a great work of charity 10 poor Mexico.
 About 100000 idle working men in this single gold standard land of enlght- ened vilzatlon-"Chrstian civillza- tion." as your Uncle Josiah Patterson of Tennessee would say--desply sympa th.ze with the poor busy laborers of Mexico.
 Why, they say, if a man doesn't care to give his money away and would like to make an investment there he can for in- stance take $5O00 or $1o, o,O0o of our good SOullu HnpHey anu go to NeN1cO, where Ut is worth two for one, and he is at once possessed of a capital of ,00O or $20, ,000 doubled what he left home with a few days before. He then buys cheap land and cheap labor and ships the surplus product of this cheap land and cheap la Dor to gold standard countries and gets double the price the commodity would fetch at home. This good money out of | the profit of the transaction he reinyests | in this poor silver-crazy country, and il l keeps everybody hustlng to keep ur with the procession. The opera ton en. | abes the public-spirited enterprlsing in vestor to pay all taxes due the poor sil- ver-burdened government, thus helping it to pay the interest on its debts ant paving the way for 1t to extingush the | principal of it's debt and get into a fail | way to join the enlightened Christian nations in the adoption of the single gold | standard, when 1t can then initiate the | government of the United States anc keep its credit intact by borrowing more | money.
 | Poor old Mexico.