The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-07-05
WHAT D|Az MEANS
TO HIS REPUBLIC
lie Has Converted Dangerous
and FOreign-Ridden Land
to Prosperity.
CAPITAL SAFE IN
ALL PARTS OF LAND
Wealth of Mexico Greatly In
creased and Resources Are
Not Scratched.

In an article on Mexico and the oppor-
tunities 1t affords capital, the Los An
Eeles Mining Review has the lolIowihs
tribute to President Diaa, which VIA hno
a ready echo in local circles
AT that time tie republic was impoV-
erIshed, In q sense bankrupt, her army
of convicts in clad and III fed; her custom
houses rnortgaecd to foreign governments.
Travel was unsafe: no man dared go
through the country with any money un-
less accompanied by military escort
This has all been changed. The wealth
OF the nation has been increased her oo-
legations are all promptly met; her creo'l
is first class. and her peopie, ednca,eo ne ~
life OF industry and THRIFT lnNltS 'ire @
cooperation of foreign capital 10 Duiiu up
her waste places. Compulsory eoucatlol'
is being extended. and her co.iiit,Hil con ,i,n
State OF OaXaca, L visited the high
schools of the city, and was surprised 10
find the students reading English classics,
Milton. Shakespeare and DINERS. - @ naa
been the custom OF our people To qecr9
the Mexican government. John iAan-
dolph, eighty years ago, declared IL 70
be "a land OF desert sands ana torild
heat. of waterless rivers and cioudless
skies: a nation OF blanketed thieves ana
hooded prostitutes" At that time there
was justice in his severe criticism, put
longer the case, LOT III NieNi''
there is work for the lahorer and invest
rnent for the capitalist This is proven oy
the fact that within the last twenty years
there has been invested in that country
about n billion OF dollars OF American
gold. Manufacturing of all kinds mas
been enlarged and extended: old mines
have been reopened and new ones dls-
covered, and Mexico may he truly said
to stand upon the threshold of pros
perity similar TO that which Iaced our
forefathers in the West in the early
fiftics
Sonora, the northwestern state OF the
republic, joining upon Arizona, was long
regarded as the sore spot of the repub-
lie. but the building OF railroads through
to enterprise which has been seized upon
by such far seeing financial magnates as
r. II. Hartman. who is now building
some fifteen hundred miles OF railway In
that country. ali Of which will be COM
pleted within the next three years and
which, in a few years more. Will make
Sonora, Sinaloa and other states lying
along the borders of the Sierra Madres
Occidental one Of the richest and most
prosperous countries on the globe.
The mineral resources OF that country
have hardly been scratched; It's rich
stores of gold, silver, copper, lead and coal
are yet 10 be developed and. directed by
American energy, il will prove to be not
only great mineral country, but an as
ricultural country as we'll. 1t is well
watered irrigation there, now In its in
fancy, Will accomplish results beyond the
comprehension OF the average man in
our day
Macauley somewhere says: 1.-The exi-
gencies of the times create great men,
Never was this more true than of the
republic OF Mexico Diaz is one of the
greatest men OF our day: broad liberal
honest and high minded. his memory Will
be enshrined I'm 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 Just While
he gives large concessions to capital, yet
he always does so with a view of bene-
fiting his people. In no country at the
present time is life more sacred; In no
country is a man more protected in his
property rights, and this is why | say
that Mexico will go on advancing until
she stands wide awake alert and active
in the forefront of progressive nations.
and the policy Of Diaz will not die when
his body is Inferred