The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-07-10

HE HAS CONVERTED MEXICO
FROM A DANGEROUS AND
FOREIGN-RDDEN LAND TO
ONE OF PROSPERITY.

AZ III VII AOAAtO IL thS w.
portunities it offers capital, the
Los Angeles Mining Review has the
following tribute to President Diaz,
which will find a ready echo in local
circles.
At the time the republic was i'm
poverished, in a sense bankrupt; her
army of convicts i'll clad and i'll fed;
her custom houses mortgaged to for
eign governments Travel was un-
safe; no man dared go through the
country with any money unless ac-
companied by a military escort. This
has all been changed. The wealth
of the nation has been increased;
her obligations are all promptly met;
her credit is first class, and her
people, educated to a life of industry
and thrift, invite the cooperation of
foreign capital to build up her waste
places. Compulsory education is
being extended, and her common
shoots enlarged. Six years ago in the
state of Oaxaca, l visited the high
shoots of the city, and was surprised
to find the students reading English
classics. Milton, Shakespeare, and
others. 1t has been the custom OF
our people to decry the Mexican gov
eminent. John Randolph, eighty
years ago declared it to be "a land
of desert sands and torrid heat, of
waterless rivers and cloudless skies;
a nation of blanketed thieves and
hooded prostitutes" At that time
there was justice in his severe crit
ism, but such is no longer the case
for in Mexico there is work for the
laborers and Investment for the cap
italists. This is proven by the fact
within the last twenty years there
has been invested in that country
about a billion dallars of American
gold. Manufacturing of all kinds
has been enlarged and extended; old
mines have been reopened and new
mes discovered, and Mexico may be
truly said TO stand upon h TIRES
hold of a prosperity similar to that
which faced our forefathers in the
West in the early fifties.
Sonora. the northwestern state OF
the republic, joining upon Arizona,
was long regarded as the sore spot
of the republic, but the building OF
railroads through that country las
given a fresh impetus to enterprise
which has been siezed upon by such
far-seeing financial magnates as e..
H. Hartman, who is now building
some fifteen hundred miles of rail-
way in that country, all of which Will
be completed within the next three
years and which in a few years more
will make Sonora, Sinaloa n the
other states lying along the borders
of the Sierra Madres Occidental, n
OF the richest and most prosperous
countries on the globe.
The . mineral of that
country have hardly bee scratched;
its rich stores of gold, silver, copper,
led and coal are yet to be developed
and directed by American energy, it
will prove to be not only a great
mineral country, but an agricultural
country as we'll. 1t is we'll watered;
irrigation there now in its infancy.
will accomplish results beyond the
comprehension of the average man
in our day.
Macaully somewhere says: THE
exigencies of the times create great
men, Never was this more true
than of the republic of Mexicoo. Diaz
is one of the greatest men of our
day; broad, liberal, honest and high
minded, his memory will be en-
shrined in the hearts of a grateful
people. His laws, / call them his laws
because in realty he enjoys so much
of the confidence of his people that
whatever he says is law, are liberal
and met Whila hp gives large CON
sessions to capital, yet he always
does so with a view of benefiting his
people. In no country at the present
time is life more sacred; in no oun-
try is a mar more protected in his
property rights, and this is why | say
that Mexico will go on advancing un-
til she stands wide wake, alert and
active in the forefront OF progressive
nations and the policy of Diaz will
not die when his body is Inferred.