Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-05
MEXICAN EDITORIAL
STIRS AMERICANS
Declaration Made That Present PolI-
cies Point to Elimination of
Foreign Control

SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Mch. A
recent editorial in the Renaclmlento, q
paper owned and edited by two
nephews of the governor of the state
of Nuevo Leon, has caused sur
among the Americans in Mexico. Inc
article in question is one OF series
entitled Mexico for the MeXicans,
and draws attention to the supposed
danger of encouraging further invest
ments of American capital in the re-
public Several instances are given IN
which the Mexican government Is Sald
to have acknowledged the presence OF
this danger by passing laws remedial
Of this in character. Among the
measures cited in the Renacimiento
are the steps that led to the control
of the principal railroad systems by
the government and some mining laws
recently passed. In the case or the
latter the writer deplores the action
of the legislators in eliminating some
Of the more restrictive clauses. lie
also sees in the suspension OF the rlght
to acquire lands in Mexico by de-
nouncement a step toward the Mexico
for the Mexican policy. Heretofore, ne
argues, foreigners, usually men OF
great wealth, have in this manner ac-
ouired large tracts in the republic and
SO have added to the peril OF the ma
tion in general.
That for years now there has been
opposition among certain classes to the
policies of the Diaz regime is well
known. Their contention that Mexico
was imperiling its political liberty and
sovereignty by permitting and encour-
aging the investment of large sums of
foreign money has largely been based
on the tragic fate of the Boer repub-
lies. They have argued that had the
gold mines of the Witwatersrand never
been found the Transvaal would yet be
independent, for in that case there
would have been no incentive for Great
Britain to get political control OF the
country.
Not a few of the biggest foreign in
vestors, among them several Amer1-
cans, have for some time agitated the
question of representation in the Mex
lean legislatures, an almost exact par
a!lel of what took place in the Trans
vaal. When the Beers refused TINS
demand on the ground that it was not
bona fide and that they could not give
a voice in the government to men who
were not citizens of the country, Eng
land promptly made war upon them,
and a conquest that could not be
brought about by pacific means was
effected after a hard struggle on the
part of the Beers. MeXicans of all
classes, and especially a large number
of officials, have given expression to
their fears of peaceful assimilation
with the United States, and for this
reason the new era of Mexico for the
Mexicans, which the editors of Rena-
cimiento claim has been inaugurated,
may, after all, be something real
enough. 1t should be borne in mind
here, however, that Mexico does not
object to the foreigner who is willing
to throw in his lot with the Mexican
as a Mexican. On the contrary, this
individual is quite welcome, and for
that reason has nothing to fear What
the Mexican objects to is the man who
refuses to be assimilated and wants to
share in the running of the country as
an American, German, Frenchman or
Englishman. Even nom Mexican pub
lications in the sister republic have ad-
mitted the wisdom of this.