Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-12-03
Mexico'S Future.

grail part of the United States: and the
line may extend south of there. In
fact, the United States need not wait
for much time to elapse ere the con-
quest is made, for that process is ever
now going n But it is a peaceful con-
quest, a commercial and Industrial con-
quest, whose weapons are capital anc
machinery: and the hum of the latter
at it's industrial work, and the chink
of the former as it is being scattered ir
countless directions in furthering and
developing business enterprises, are as
the rattle of musketry and the boom OF
cannon on the actual battlefield. Am
erican push, energy, vigor and thrift
are permeating all parts Of the OLD
Aztec dominion. American influence is
being felt everywhere. President Dia2
sees it.; so do his cabinet ministers who
with true intelligence and statesman
like foresight realize that it is for the
best interests of the country, and are
extending all the aid possible to lift VI
their people and fit them for the future
that is surely in store for them.
The evangel, the harbinger of this
conquest is the American locomotive.
When it's whistle was heard On the
western plains for the first time, the
red mar instinctively knew that it
meant the termination of his nomadic
ovic+Draa. anI ~ also fold f1n 1ncnnro
do of the plains that westward the star
of the empire was taking it's way with a
civilizing force and power that meant
the establishment there of the prfnGf-
pie that Order is heavens First Law
Rarbarism, wild, unsettled social condi-
tons and standardization are swept
away by the advent of the iron horse,
and when its shrill note was heard
south of the Rio Grande river, it was
the welcome call for civilization and
Anglo-SaXon enlightenment to follow
in it's train with their invigorating and
enobling influences. The response was
prompt and effectual.
The peaceful invasion of Old Mexico
by American enterprise slowly but
steadily grew and waXed great, Ameri-
cans penetrated regions hitherto un-
known with their money and CONNER
cial vigor, that eminent statesman
President Diaz extended needed help,
and the current soon became a wide
stream and then a river, until now
there are thousands and thousands of
brains establishing and developing
commercial enterprises clear to the
isthmus of Tehuantepec.
1t is too late to stay the tide, and
the Mexican national administration
would not stay that tide if it could.
Railway lines now extend clear to OAK
AGA in the southern part of the repub-
lie; a ship railway has been planned
across the isthmus, and the iron thread
that is knitting together the interests
of progress in all parts of the country
err. In short, Mexico is rapidly becom-
ing A~mericanized. American ideas in
all the various departments of business,
in industrial, political, and religious
and educational life are becoming more
manifest as each year rolls around, and
with the lifting of this ancient people
from their old habits of shiftlessness,
intellectual stupor and lack of enter
prise, is coming the requirement of
those traits necessary for the apprecia-
ton of good citizenship.
The reelection of President Diaz was
a great and valuable factor in this
march of progress, but he is not willing
to serve another term, and in a few
years when he steps down from the po-
sition he has so long honored, the ac-
tive indications of the approaching alb
sorption of Old Mexico by this country
will become more manifest. At least
that is the opinions of many Americans
south of the Rio Grande. With the dis
appearance of the firm hand that has
for so many years guided the Mexican
helm of state, there will come, it is gen.
orally believed, an unsettled state of
affairs which will so involve American
interests that this government cannot
will refuse to interfere to protect them;
and this will lead to further and furth-
er steps sure to eliminate in a national
absorption. With the colonial exper-
fence now being forced upon the Unit
ed States, the American administration
will be the better fitted in a few years to
assimilate and properly control the
present Mexican republic.