The Washington herald., 1911-03-26
CONTROL OF MEXICOS RESOURCES
IN HANDS OF FOREIGN SYNDICATES

How large are the American inter
ests'' in Mexico? That is a question that
has been on many lips since the troops
Of this country were sent post haste
to the Mexican border.
Citizens of the United States and cor
porations OF the United States have
almost billion dollars invested in Mex
leo. If the holdings Of Great Britain
and Germany were included the amount
of foreign capital invested would reach
billion and a half dollars. American
financiers practically own the Mexican
railroads and many wealthy American
citizens and corporations have large
mining, agricultural, and commercial
interests. Americans have given Mexico
light, power, heat, and means Of urban
communication: American engineers drive
the trains of the Southern republic, and
American managers are found in charge
of the banks and mills. In short, there
has been a complete American COM
mercial invasion of Mexico within the
past twenty years.
Owing to the splendidly successful
attempts of the Mexican government
officials to bottle up the news as to the
real conditions in the interior of the
republic knowledge as to the progress
the northern portions of the country
has not leaked out yet. Certain it is
that the situation grows worse every
day and men in close touch with Mex
ican politics say that crisis is at hand
that may. mean the overthrow of the
existing government
1t is interesting at this time to note
the predictions made some time ago
by several very able writer's in regard
a m a
called THE American Egypt" two Eng
lishmen. Charming Arnold and Freder-
lex ]. Tabor Frost, have this to say:
VIII Be Annexed.
Let US not be rash and attempt to
fix dates, but as certainly as day sue
ceeds night Mexico will eventually be-
come a part of the United States. 1t
will probable be sooner than is antici-
pated even by the clearest-headed man
on either side of the Texan frontier.
With the death of Diaz Mexico will be
plunged into strife. Nothing can save
her. The North will go like a field of
sundried barley. fired in a gale of wind;
the turbulent North, where even now
life is worth nothing
Mexico cannot boil her pot as she
likes. Other nations have helped her
with too many condiments and too
much stock. American troops will cross
the frontier to protect American inter-
ests and capital: and when they are
once in they will stop there as the
English have in Egypt. It will be a
the maintenance of which
will prove in the best interest Of Eng
and, Germany, and every other power
America is inevitably mark |
ID as the deus ex machina' when the |
social earthquake in Mexico comes |
about. A few years. q few struggles,
! bloody civil war, a rising Of the mis- |
,rable Indian slaves in all the states, !
nd Mexico will vote herself in side the I
federation of which, despite her strug- |
lies she is already a geographical part |
when one totals up the vast amount |
Il American wealth which Is at stake
n Mexico; when one remembers that |
Mexico Is without military or naval re-
ources to resist foreign interference
her army of twenty-odd thousand is,
Is q fighting force. q negligible guam
ity, and her navy consists OF three old
unboats and training ship): when one
ealizes that her difficulties win find her /
With an empty treasure chest, living /
rom hand to mouth on suicidal policy
( crushing excise system. sitting In