The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-12-07
MEXICO GROWING
And the United States Going Back
wards.

And the United States Going Back
wards.
James H. Randall, in his letter to the
Columbian from Augusta Ca, writes:
l asked leading manufacturer here,
who frequently visits the North on busi-
ness, how it happened that banks of
that section did not appear to under
stand the financial question as it relates
to the silver and gold coinage. He said:
'"They understand it quite we'll, but it is
not to their interest, as they regard it,
to have free coinage succeed, although it
is good for the Masses" The progress
of Mexico is being conceded by even
gold standard papers. The Philadelphia
Inquirer, for instance, says:
The Mexican himself is to large ex-
tent responsible for this condition of af-
fairs. He is reaching out and exploiting
the resources of his country at every
opportunity. He is organizing syndi
Gates and he is taking contracts; he is
exhibiting his products at state fairs
and at national expositions; in word,
he is pushing Chile hard for the honor
of being called the Yankee of the
South
Nor have Americans been slow to see
the advantages that are offered for trade
in MEXICO. Capital is flowing into that
country to buy farms, sink shafts and
build factories. Congressman Dingley's S
son is at the head of a large company
which proposes to erect there an enOr
nous candy and cracker factory. Amer
ican buyers have gone into Mexico to
buy $4,000 head of cattle to ship to CuDa
and Porto Rico. In the last few years
many cotton factories have been built
by Americans, who import half the raw
cotton they use from the states.
The people of Mexico cannot be COM
pared in energy to the people of the
United States. 1t is compuated that the
enlightened population of Mexico, in a
material sense, is about 25O0,000. We
have many times that number in the
basis, advances prosperously by leaps
and bounds, while industry halts in this
country. Men invest in Mexico because,
ds has been observed by the Salt Lake
Tribune, property there is better than
money, that property purchased last
year is worth more now than when
hn choc ic or 1v
appreciating, while in our country it is
steadily shrinking. Why is the East
choked with money which the owners
dare not use? When will the capitalists
of the East see that the orange is
squeezed, and that it is time, now that
so much property has fallen to them,
to restore the money of the fathers and
give to property and labor an even
chance to hold their own7
Meanwhile, there is desperate at
tempt to side-track the money question,
and no men are working more vigorous
ly in that direction than a certain class
of good Democrats who have returned to
the party for the purpose OF controlling
it one way or another in congress or
conventions. These men, in some cases,
have been sickened with the Republicans
they have helped fasten on several
states and on the whole country by the
result of the elections of 1896. Their
main purpose, however, is, think, Incl
dentally to punish the Republicans fer
not attempting to surrender the govern
ment to the banks by currency legisla-
ton, but ultimately to undermine the
Bryan Democracy in 1900. 1t may be
that many of them will, in the interim,
have SO much light shed upon the
theme as to weaken their gold idolatry,
but of this ''let time and chance deter
mine