Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1896-02-27
Our Silver Neighbor.

hCAlSO " OuC hOo6Uu 1I6Idlu, MI.
F. r. Guernsey says:
Mexico is the new southwest of
this continent; it has all that the
heart of man can desire; it has now
strong government, and security
for life and property, and it has
property, and it has prosperity, No.
Oody is pulling a, hong face down
here. 1t is rank heresy to say SO
right in Boston, but we ascribe our
aappy position to having no bother
some currency question. Mexico
made the plunge, adopted silver, let
gold &C, and is standing firmly based
on her two feet and paying every
dollar she owes. Experience is worth
all the theory in the world. Here
stands old Mexico, old in years, fresh
and young in heart, all alive with
the spirit of enterprise. Come and
see her; throw your prejudlces to the
winds! Mexico vall not be fooling
around bond syndleates nor trying
TO get gold basis when silver one
answers every purpose. If you come
here. you will be a silver man, Just
as Jay Gould was Il democrat in
democratic counties and a republican
IN republican counties, and you can
put on your sound money opinions
when you cross the border to 60
home. But sound money, | take it,
is a sort of money that pays your
bills, and is good wherever you
tender 1t.
, Mr.. Guernsey thinks that there
is room IN Mexico for 10000 bright
young Americans with capital
enough for start. A planter leads
an easy life. Native Indians do all
the work and the profits are mmense.
It pays to make II coffee crop at I
cents pounI and se!it for over 80,
and sugar at cent a-pound to sell
at s cents. Corn can be sold for
over dollar a bushel, and the stock
industry pays handsomely. Guern
sey writes:
You need not starve on the Mcxl-
can terra callente. Everything you
need for your table you may have
without much trouble. You can
raise chickens and have eggs ad lib,
and can grow Yams and fruit and
corn, and your own tobacco If you
wish, and drink of your own coffee,
and make your own sugar to sweeten
it withal! You may not be rich, you
shall not put in fourth of the work
that is needed III oultivating New
England rock pastures, and yet you
will be fat and hearty. Corn grows
down on the sthmus like the bless.
ing of God, as the Spanish saying
las it. You will see 1t being harvest
ed from one field, while it is two
feet high, In an adjoining field, and,
in another, is Just shooting up sout
of the ground.
One does not wish to paint every
thing rose color and surely the life
remote from towns, the quiet OF the
country and the society of but few
of ones own race, do not constitute
an attractive prospect for most men;
but, as | must insist, there is Slnde
pendence from hard grinding condi-
tions in.tropical agriculture. A few
cases in point: A friend of mine
came here many years ago, married
charming Mexican girl, has a pref
ty family, and after drifting from
one thing to another, hit on sugar,
and now he'is in receipt Of an income
of $4,000 a month. He tells me life
is very sweet, and that he goes to
Europe next year.
Another friend was drifting about
the streets of this old city of Mexico
doing almost nothing. He began to
think of the hot country and what
it might offer, took the train, got
down there, explored, took up little
land, and now, safter four years,
would not sell his possessions for
less than 100000. He is sugar
and coffee planter.
Another man, surgeon, with a
railway practice, threw up the saw
and the scalpel, and is now making
sugar and $4,000 year al the same
time. He says hels only beginning,
and that in two years more he shall
PASS his summers yachting off the
New England coast
These are specimens. They have
had their trials, and their obstacles
10 overcome. But they had pluck,
fertility ofresource, tact in handling
the native laborers, and they are
now independent men, who need
not ask oil any man a dollar.
This is a tempting picture of life
in silver nOnntrv and IN ua asa IN