The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-05-12

2 fellow conntryman on American
SOIL We're only a symptom which the
occasion brought 10 the surface Of IA
latent feeling Of older and deeper
origin An American has become dis
iBed not because he Is American
Tor there Is remarkably little Of race
reJudice in Mexico but because he
represents vested rights. nre-emIi.
tions, privileges concessions and ad-
vantages that are felt 10 BE prepndi.
eial 70 the best interests Of the ma
tive people
Much is said Of the splendid part
American enterprise has PLAYED III
tne development Of aa natural re-
slufces ol Mexlco--the railroads
Ddilt, the mines and forests opened.
The oil, rubber and fibre Industries
TAINTED the water power harnessed.
me irrigation plants established. etc
and II rs all quite true. Americas
capital, enterprise. vision. venture
ard push have done very much to.
ward forcing the land 10 Yield its in.
q ease But Tie Shield bearinp this
tuth has iis other side and color.
and from the viewpoint of the
tFoughttnl native, VINO is Jealous Ton
MS people and nation, ii looks more
Ike an intrusive exploitation an in.
dustrial invasion and spoliatiop OF
iich resources by 4 people 10 whom
tLey do not naturally belong. And
the government is faulted for inns
giving 70 foreigners concessb ms that
admit them TO the chief SOU. res DIT
the country's riches and thu griev.
ance has voiced Itself with lrowina
iaudness in what has become a poHt.
lcal slogan Mexico for Mexicans
fuwn with the Glingol
American interest In
meSco's National Welfare
What future effect this growing
feeling may have ou American
church work in Mexico is ptoble4
naticaL for there are signs 81 III
pussible development beyond ihe
range Of impersonal and political bro.
ttst into the realm OF popular preiu-
ace ana fanaticaI hatred. Verv much
viii denend, certainly, on the ma
thre and extent OF the interest Amer
rams show in the future welfare OH
MeXleo as a nation Thus far that
interest has been very small sadly
small when NE contrast the fabulous
Investments that have been made in
this country in the interests OF ner
aonal profit with tie meagre invest
ents that have been made In the in
terests of the nation--its men ana
Women We are told that little less
tAan a billion OF American dollars
Me ested in the development q.
tae lateral resources Of Mexico
Great things have been done, certain
4 and yet Humhodt's saying of al
lndred years age ls true today
Mexico Is beggar sitting on a bag
of gold And ii the governmental
fabric is felt TO tremhe bit omin-l
oaslY today may il not be because
The oeagat has been forgotten ini
lhe eager interest for his bag uli
gold2"
IL u fair 70 believe that very many
ef the Americans who represent large
financial interests in Mexico, ana VINO
aie credited with having done very
much for the country material pros.
rerity would have done more than
they have done for the social. indus.
tal and educational interests Of the
eople II they had but realized. as
the present trouble May help ns to
do the importance Of the h6man ele
Rent in countrys developments
and national stability.
0f an the great American mining .
and smelting companies delMng alter
sald and SILVER ln Mexico, not one \
s9 tar as ! an able 20 learn. has
placed here TN Institution 0f any kind 1
Iof The intellectual, moral. social or
splrinal betterment of the people I
phe spaniards dill better than that \
Nor Sc very long ago an American 0iitl
company entered Mexico ana created
! market for itself by giving away its
amps, flleG and lighted thow wise
lfe the children 0t this MOmdil and
Since then they have developed not
lniy a market hu a field from which
.atuld fortunes have been realized.
iad SEA, il there ls single institu.
.ion, school, home. hospital, library
b this country thas represents the
humane Interest OF any membef Of
.aar great corporation III ihe ahl
IONS 81 poYertf,stfekeH people here
sitting in darkness. Il is uoi peneral
~ known American Iron interests
n AIeAico have been great rnesl