Arizona republican., 1905-06-17
PHoEN1x, ARIZONA, JUNE r, 1905.
Mexican Stability.

This country has been so busy watching the tremendous development of Japan that it has had little time to observe the growth of a neighbor to the south of us which, if it has not advanced as far as the yellow empire has certainly advanced wonderfully in an equal time, and from far more remote stage of national existence. Mexico's sudden leap from the seven teenth century into the twentieth would be a feat to amaze the world were it not so completel-- overshad- owed by Japan's greater achievement.
 Almost within quarter century the Mexicans have suppressed brigandage, established public schools, built roads. railroads and telegraph lines. set up stable government, secured the invest ment of hundreds of millions of for eign capital for the development of their limitless resources, and by doing these things they have won the confi- dence of the world. Of all the score or more of Latin American republics Mexico is the most progressive and the best governed. Her resources are no greater than those of some others, but she is we'll governed and is close to the United States, and these are the two circumstances which explain her advancement.
 In an article in Leslies Weekly, Don Pablo Macedo a Mexican, discourses on the future of the republic, which he thinks is assured now that the sue cession to the presidency is provided for. He says:
 "The primary question, therefore. lies in knowing whether. after General Diaz, We Mexicans will or will not have a strong government to uphold. I believe we will surely have it, be- cause our fundamental law, having created a vice president appointed for the purpose of eventually succeeding him who wields the executive power, now prevents the contingency of our passing through a headIess period which would be very dangerous. This vice president is today MT Ramon Corral, whose honesty, energy and in- tegrity l must not eulOgize for many reasons, the principal of which is that my friendship and attachment to him are well known.
 1CEIlOTIOW dnOLneT man may De vice president. But, whoever he is. he will represent law and order and should necessity arise. will constitute a firm government, because he will find a public exchequer in the full tide Of p.o perity and with a considerable surplus; because he will have at his disposal, as powerful means of action twenty thousand kilometers of tele- graph lines and almost as many of railroads; because he will find public credit on a level that had never been attained among us; because he will no longer have to contend with the for mer petty local chieftanships; and. finally, because there will unite with him inseparably all those national ele- ments and interests which, if they have up to the present time remained indifferent to purely political prob lens, will never unite with anything that stands for disturbance, disorder or what in our picturesque popular dialect we call La Bola'."
 This question of succession has worried American investors not a lit- t!e in the past. for it was by no means certain that the conditions brought about by Diaz' firm rule could be maintained by his successor, whoever that individual might be. But the leading men of Mexico have for years had an object lesson in the advantages of stable government, and it is scarce ly likely that any situation could arise by which the peaceful and prosperous republic could be convulsed by revolu- tion. Respect for the government has become ingrained m the Mexicans, and the passing of Diaz, whenever it oc- CUTS, will mean no more than the death in office of a president of the United States.