The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-09-14
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Mexican Governments Request Re-
sardins Revolutionary Paier to
~ Be unorsd,


sardins Revolutionary Pajer to
Be Ignored.
Washington. Sept. 1S.-The request
of the Mexican government that the
United States stop the publication. il
st. Louis. of a revolutionary newspa-
per, the Regeneration, puts a difficult
question before the law officers of the
postoffice department.
If the Regeneration were an Amer
lean paper. publishing in st. Louis the
same sort of literature about the gov
rnme of the United States that il
prints about the Diaz government, il
would not be interfered with. 1t isn't
n more radical or revolutionary than
various newspapers or periodicals in
this country with which nobody Think
OF interfering. 1t is hard to formulate
a rule under which a publication could
reasonably be stopped because SONS
foreign government doesn't like it. That
might lead to ueh a situation as a
European government asking that
some American daily paper be sup
pressed because it had criticised the
European government, and this is
hardly a possible concession wen for
the most amiable foreign minister to
contemplate.
A Humiliating Experience.
The government did, indeed, once
deny the mails to a publication. Will
shire's Magazine, because it was a So
cialist paper. 1t was alleged to be a
purely advertising affair, which was
not true. Driven from the mails. it
moved to Canada. and from Toronto,
awaiting itself of the privilege granted
by the international postal agree
ments, mailed it's publication back to
this country without trouble. The post
office department finally got ashamed
of itself and permitted the magazine
to come back to the United States.
Half the extremely radical literature
of Europe is printed in London, and
England has uniformly declined to in
terfere with it. Fol- centuries England
icals from all over the continent. Eng
land calmly declines to interfere.
The Mexican revolutionary junta,
with headquarters at st. Louis, has
undoubtedly been responsible largely
for the recent agitation in that coun-,
try, and for the impression in the Unit
ed States that a serious situation
lists in Mexico. 1t is hard to get at
the real facts concerning the Mexican
situation. On the one hand the insur-
gent elements insist that there is deep
seated and serious unrest, which may
yet develop force enough graveIy to
menace the Diaz government; and. on
the other. Diaz and his ministers in
slst that there is no danger at all.
Publ1cists who know most about Mex
leo take a middle ground.
That Mexico will have anything like
q dangerous revolutionary movement
during the life of Diaz is everywhere
thought improbable. But that Diaz win
lnd a successor with strong enough
hand to continue the stable government
he has inaugurated is likewise doubted.
The basis of Mexican disaffection
seems to be the vigorous and on the
whole enlightened effort of Diaz to get
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his country.
Would Develop Resources.
Diaz found a Mexico of untold nat
ural wealth, without men or money to
develop it. He has made immense con-
to American. German and
English capital to get it interested.
DE has made Mexico one of the finest
i1eids OF Investment in the world. Many
billions are there invested and almost
all of it at n profit. The Mexican peo-
pie. not realizing how much they are
benefiting by this, incline to protest
the foreigners owning all the
good things. They say the Dias adj
nlnlstration is more foreign than Mex
One element in the situation seems
'eally serious. The foreigners have
many workmen to Mexico-rail-
men, artisans, skilled workers of
kinds, and even laborers. These are
Just about twice as much as Mex
cans working at the same occupations.
an American engineer may be
running opposite q Mexican on a rail-
and the Mexican will be utterly
unable to see the justice of the Amer
can getting twice his wages. They do
The same work and in many cases with
out doubt the Mexican does it as we'll
rs the American. Truth 10 tell. there
8 merit in much of the complaint on
his score. And the complaint applies
70 many more than railroad workers..
The trouble in Mexico is that the
government is more n mon
lrchy than a republic. Nobody seems
yet to have conducted q. very successful
Spanish-American republic without in
reducing a strong monarcllic element
INTO it.. Palma tried to do the same
to Cuba II he has trouble on
lis hands. There is evidence that Cas-
TO tried it in Venezuela, and thus far
lie is succeeding, though il keeps him
n hot water With the foreign govern-
nents. Chile and Argentina ara we'll
now as monarchic republics
nd Brazil, having only recently bro
zen away from the forms of monarchy
some turbulent tendencies largely
because 1T hasn't got adjusted TO the
lew system.