The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1911-03-31
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foreign affairs; Guillerimo de Landay
Escandon, governor of the federal dis
trict; Joakuin D. Casasus, lawyer
banker and one-time Mexican ambassa-
dor at Washington; Pimentel yFagoaga,
president of the Banco Central; Fable
Macedo, president of the Bance Nacionai
Rosendo Pineda, a director of the Ban
co Nacional and "A member of the cham
Der of deputies and lastly German
banker Hugo Scherrer by name, the
representative of several great Euro
pean banking houses.
The operations of the Cientlfico
oroup are carried on through the me-
dunn of the Compania Bancaria de ID
rasy Bienes Races, popularity known
rs the Bancaria and related to the
great Banco Nacional which with Its
fifty seven branches has been called the
Bank of England in Mexico The Ban
caria has provided very convenient
cloak for the government gratters tor
bv it's means they are enabled to con-
ceal their identity and to take govern
ment contracts or obtain government
concessions without scandal and with
out undesirable publicity. Let me make
if clear-and this | am saying only
after due consideration-tha today so
wholly is the control of Mexican affairs
in the hands of the Cientificos, it Is I'M
possible for an outsider to obtain
government contract or concession with
out paying tribute to them or their
AGENTS. So we'll is this fact known to
foreign concession hunters that not one
of them dreams of going to the National
Palace unless he is accompanied either
bv Senior Limantour, Corral, Casasus,
Pimentel, or Pineda to help him urge
his suit. 1t is said in Mexico that if a
concession seeker having a sound and
business like proposition to offer, VIII
disregard the ring and 60 straight to
President Diaz, he is very likely to
have his petition granted. This was
truer ten years ago. however, than 1t
is today. The president is an old man
now and neither his mind nor his men,
orv-remarkable as both are stills
as active as it was once.
Here is the fashion in which a CON
cession. obtained through the usual
Cientifico channels, works out. Let us
suppose that you want to build rail
way from Iguala, the present end OF
railway communication being Guerrero,
through to the Pacific. Such a conces-
sion, it is obvious, would serve to open
up a rich but almost unknown state
and would do much to further the pros
perity of the entire region. Is it, then.
promptly granted to you on those
grounds? Not at all. You 60 to either
Senior Casasus or Senior Pimentel or
Senior Peneda, lay your proposition be-
fore him and retain his services for
drafting the concession and taking it
up with the president. Money is not
even mentioned-graft in Mexico is not
as crude as that. The president is ap-
preached and the concession duly grant
ed. Then there ensues a long and ag-
gravating delay in the making out of
the necessary papers. You call in
Senior Casosus, or Senior Pimentel or
Senior Pineda, whichever one you have
chosen to assist" you-and enquire
the reason for this delay. THE gov
ernor of the state through which your
railway is to pass" you are told, "nas
been so much worried and occupied in
trying to take care of a mortgage which