The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-02-14
MEXICO FEARS US.
Expects to Be Next Victim of
Expansion Tendencies.

City of Mexico, Feb. 1.-THE Mexican
papers are giving much attention to
American topics especially the proposed
construction of the Nicaragua canal
and the MorTnons. The latter subject
is of especial domestic interest on ac-
count of the fourishing Mormon col
onies IN the northern part of the re-
public.
Ell TEMPO. the clerical daily, censures
the government for liberal treatment of
the Mormons, saying that here all doors
are thrown open to them, lands freely
given them, and what is a thousand
times worse, they are permitted to open
schools of their own. wherein they will
teach the children of the Mexican peo-
pie their unc1ean and pernicious doc
trines, while in the United States, says
Ell TEMPO, the country which our lib
erals are always trying to initiate,
Mormons cannot send polygamists to
congress and they are punished for in
dulginT in plural marriages. The same
journal which speaks for the conserva-
tive party, goes on to censule the Uni
ted States for its continued display of
lust for territory and points out the
dangers to Mexico from the continued
inflow of Americans and American cap
ital, AID says the absorptiv3 tendencies
of the Anglo-Saxon race are greatly to
be dreaded. We are to become, it adds,
the first victims or the programme Oh
expansion and Imperialism.
Taking a wholly distinctive view of
the American people and their ambi-
tons, lei Mundi, the organ of the Lib
eral party. now in power here, COM
ments on the adoption of the Mica
raguan canal project by the American
congress and says that Mexico, like
all Latin-American countries having
territory on the Pacific, is bound to be
benefited by the canal. Mexico will
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larger quantities of ore. cabinet woods
and dye woods but that is all, because
coffee in general has a discourag1ng
and restricted outlook in Mexico and
expectation of Mexican sugar is i'm
possible in a commercial sense. AS re
CARDS importations, Mexico will be able
to receive by the Nicaraguan canal
good and abundant supply of coal
throughout it's Pacific ports as well
as European commodities of all kinds,
so that the Nicaragua canal will be
serious competitor to our internal rail-
roads. But more, the fact that the
canal will enable US largely to increase
our exports of ore is sufficient evidence
that 1t will be highly advantageous to
us. From a purely political point OF
view the Nicaragua canal, severing as
it will North and Central from South
America will definitely be bar to all
plans of military solidarity OF the
Latin-American nations-a solidarity
which many have thought possible of
making effective by means of a. great
railway extending from Mexico to
Patagonia or TERRA Del Fuego. The
canal will harm Europe in that it will
render possible American control of the
trade of Peru, Bolivia. Ecuador. Col
ombia and a great part of Chilli as wei
as central and eastern Asia, and will
establish the fercest kind of competition
between American and European mer-
chandise. There is no doubt that the
Nicaraguan canal will greatly further
comerce and diplomatic influence of
the United States. Moreover, it is a
YDod thing that no such canal has ever
been opened across Mexican territory,
fOI the weak nation which is crossed
by an inter-oceanic canal loses either
a portion of its territory or a large
part of it's sovereignty
The Mexican Herald says that by the
construction of the canal the United
States extends it's southern coast line
far to the south, and that the canal
will be. the means of making the Mex
lean west coast ports prosperous and
will enable Mexico to build up its Pa
cific coast in preparation for sharing in
the commerce which is to fill the Pacific
ocean, as was predicted by Seward.
whose policy President Mckinley is
consistently carrying out