The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-24
MEXICO DOES NOT
WANT AMERICANS
Leading Newspaper Starts a
Campaign Against Them
FEAR OF MONEY POWER
Certain Classes Are Opposed TO Liberal
Policies of Diaz and Sentins--< Is
Being Aroused In Fear of Land
Grabbing Schemes

San Antonio, Tex, February 2S.-(Spe-
eial.)--A recent editorial in the Renaeimi
ento, paper owned and edited by two
nephews of the governor of the state VI
Nueyo Leon, has caused great stir
among the Americans in Mexico. The ar
ticle in question is one of a series en-
titled Mexico for the MeXicans," and
draws attention to the supposed danger
of encouraging further investments OF
American capital in the republic Several
instances are given in which the Mexican
government is said 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 gov
eminent and some mining laws recently
passed. In the case of the latter the
writer deplores the action of the legisla-
tors in eliminating some of the more
restrictive clauses. He also sees in the
suspension of the right to acquire lands
in Mexico by announcement a step to-
ward the Mexico for the Mexican policy.
" men of great wealth, have in this
manner acquired large tracts in the re-
public and so have added to the peril of
the nation in general.
That for years now there has been some
opposition among among certain classes
to the liberal policies of the Diaz regime
is well known. Their contention that
Mexico was imperiling its political liberty
and sovereignty by permitting and en-
couraging the investment of large Gums
of foreign money has largely been based
on the tragic fate of the Boer republics.
They have argued that, had the gold
mines of the Witwatersrand never been
found, the Transvaal would yet be i'll
dependent, for in that case there would
have been no incentive for Great Britain |
to get political control of the country.
For all this, there is. perhaps, some |
justification. Not a few of the biggest |
foreign investors, among them several |
Americans, have for some time agitated |
the question of representation in the Mex |
lean legislatures, an almost exact parallel |
of what took place in the Transvaal |
When the Beers refused this 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 citi- |
zens of the country, England promptly |
made war upon them and conquest that |
could mot 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 Renacimiento 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 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, French |
man or Englishman. Even non-Mexican
admitted the wisdom of this.
Engineer Wants Wife
Do you want TO become the wife of
Emmett James, Gale Fernando No. Co. |
Manila P. l? If SO address either the gen
tleman himself or John j. Stevens the |
postmaster of this city, to whom the
woud-be bridegroom has given the power
of attorney. Mr. James merely says
In his letter that he could not do with |
out wife, feeling that life without such
a helpmate is not all 1t is cracked UP to
be. Beauty, age and dover specifications
have not been submitted by him and for
that reason every fair maid in the land is
eligible. On his own case he has been
more specific He Is an engineer, 80 years
of age, and earns a much bigger salary
than he would get in the States. Whether
dark or blond he does not say, nor is
there any mention of his corporal
inches as relating to latitude or longitude
However, they have photographers In
Manila and for that reason it should
not be difficult to get picture OF the
man.
Postmaster Stevens has often been won
dering how he has earned his reputa-
ton as a matchmaker, but for some time
now he has been receiving all kinds of
letters asking him to find wives, and aye,
several husbands. Young chaps, with
beautiful senorita, of which, by the way,
the supply is scarcely able to take care of
the home demand, and others want Texas
beauties-cowgirls, you know. A love-
smitten maiden some time ago asked him
TO send her the whereabouts of a sure
enough cowboy she had seen here while
In the city and whose address she had
not been able to get.
Needless to say" said Postmaster
Stevens, while I sympathize with the
man or woman in quest of a matrimonial
partner am not in position to do more
than consigp their epistles to the waste
basket Uncle Sam as yet is not in the
matchmaking business-for that we will
have to wait until the Malthusian theories
come into their own. Still 1t Is too bad
that nothing can be done for them"
Brother John, as everybody calls him, will
then allow the reminiscent look to spread
over his face and think of the days
when he, as Texas cowboy, had hard
time to find wife.
Shotgun as Persuader
How to get piano away from a wonl-
an In this city without getting his own or
the akin of his deputies perforated with
buckshot Is a problem that is confront
ing Sheriff B. d. Lindsey. plano firm
making business of selling pianos on
the pay-every-month plan. 1t appears,
sold one of its JOY boxes some time ago
to woman with a keen business INSTINCT.
After paying few installments the pur-
chaser moved away from the city, not
though without selling the piano to an
other woman. In due time the change of
provisional ownership was discovered by
the firm and an effort made to, recover
It, This proving of no avail the law had
to be invoked
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