The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-07-26
MEXICO, OUR
NEIGHBORS

| ~ p,;l Dol D., ,rl
'' A"e 'e ~ -
When we stop to consider the satisfac
tory and steady increase of our business
| rela tions with our sister republic and
| nearest ncighbor TO the south, Mexico,
| it is surprising how little we see in print
| regarding those relations, and the won
| derful progress made and being made.
| by the Land of the Montezumas." The
| following compilation may help to supply
| this deficiency of published information:
| Many American exchanges comment
| on Editor Watterson's talk about Roose-
vclt's trying to "Mexicanize" American
| institutions. The Kentucky philosopher
| used the word in q; dcpreciatory sense.
lie doesn't know Mexico except from
| histories OF the year 1850 or thereabouts.
| lie imagines that Santa Ana still lives,
| that brigandS are on the roads, and that
life and property are a gamble. Waiter
| son should get ND to the times All is
not perfect here. but Maxico has some
| good things, and even at the risk of
..Mexicanization' they might well be
| a adopted up north. For example: When
Mexico gets an efficient and businessike
| government it does not set UP nights
planning to replace it just for the sake
| of novelty.-NIeXican Herald.
|
| and building hardware manufacturing
| firms in the country. who has lust re-
| turned to New York from Il tour through
| Mexico says: MY trip was Il new VEN
| ture for our house, as heretofore we
have had no men in Mexico. We have
| done some business with Mexican dealers
| through their cOrrespondents here and
| through New Orleans houses, but we
have never before made the experiment
| of working Mexico i'm the same way as
American territory. The results are SO
promising that the house has decided to
| send us there regularly hereafter The
main reason why Mexico has been neg
l.ctcd by American houses in our line
| and i'm MANY other lines is the almost
| total absence of jobbcrs, as they carry
no stock and do not supplv the retailers
latter generally buv direct ana about
once or twice. a year Another reason
is the Mexican prejudice in favor of GER
tain lines of goods made in foreign coun-
tries The fashion of their houses keeps
nm this preiudice and confirms them in 1t
but il is by no means n hopeless pre-
judice. one powerful factor in overcom-
ing IT is the large number of American
great MANY of them have settled there
and they are sure TO create a demand
for American hardware,
II will he some wears before Mexico
hccomes n serious Industrial rival in for
eisn markets and i'm the meantime she
offers suuerior advantages for trade he
cause her uniule conditions of prosper-
itv has creoted q demand for nil kinds
Of machinery required in the eouipment
M ,sbons ana factories and for the de
ye,onment of her great natural resources.
uoxioo offars tn the vorld n cnsb mark at
for almost every kind of n manufoctured
nrticle-Meyican Journal of Commerce.
A. , s,n,nla M Moxic,p ir,astmant wa
con noint to the present construction of
rasiaances and commorcioI buildinrs If
historv of this cnnitoI wore ca many
oIeeant and nretentious buiIdinps heinD
o..cted no now
,rba Rritisb rradn JournaI rcc,ntIv
had tho roIlowinn I'm say. "No .rcat i'm.
nrovement I'm the nosition of t,itish
traho In Maxico can he exnected mill
n'a,ish nnSrh,nt. and NAME, ct,rors
a,'n,'' ,o,..,ord tn n,,sb tho;, n,rn ;ntar
as,s Witch n,,st ,urror as Ion. as ,hoy
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s,i,u ,ha shnros ~ 6rtnom ar,, .hova rar
and Whenever n holder 6nds himself com,