The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1911-05-09

vast mining properties. The Standard
Oil company. under hte name OF the
Waters. Pierce, controls vastly major
portion of the crude oil flow OF MeXi-
co and 30 per cent of the retail trade
in oil The American sugar trust has
concessions giving II complete mon
opoly in sugar beets and beet sugar
for ten years. The American rubber
trust possesses the best rubber lands
In Mexico The Wells-Fargo Express
company, owned by the Southern Pa
cific Railway company, has monop-
oily of the express business in Next
co.
The Hartman heirs own two and
one half million acres of oil lands in
the Tampico country, and other Am
orleans own millions of acres of the
same sort of land The Southern Pa
cific Railway company control S,49l
Of the 1850 miles of Mexican rail
ways Besides this, Stillwell, a Harri-
man ally is building the Orient road
and drawing $4,000 mile from the
government. ID. H. Thompson after ac-
quiring the Pan American road for
Hartman, resigned as United States
ambassador. Out of the railroad mer-
ger of 1909 Minister Limantour and
Pablo Macedo divided 100000, so
| Turner asserts
The Mexican Central and Mexican
| National systems are both cheaply
built roads; their rolling stock is of
low grade. Their entire joint mileage
at the time Of the merger was 5,4OO
miles, and yet under the merger they
were capitalized at s615,OO0,O0O gold,
or $4,000 a mile The Mexican Gen.
trail was thirty years old yet had new
er paid penny. The Mexican Nation
al was over twenty-five years old. yet
1t had paid less than per cent. Yet
in the overcapitalized merger we find
the company binds itself to pay Az
per cent on $225,0O0,O00 worth Of
bonds and per cent on $3.50, 900 900
worth of bonds, or $685. 900 interest
a year, and pay it semi-annually."
! Again, he says President Taft and
J Attornty General Wickersham, at the
behest of American capital, have al
ready placed the United States gov.
eminent in the service of Diaz to aid
in stamping out an incipient revolu.
ton with which for jusitfiable grounds
our revolution of 1916 cannot for an
instant be thought of in comparison.
Attorney General Wickersham Is cred.
tied with beng heavy stakeholder
in the National Railways of Mexico
Henry W. Taft, brother of the presi.
dent, is general counsel for the same
corporation. Thus it will be seen that
these officials have u personal as well
as a political interest in maintaining
the system of Diaz."
On the last page of the book are
these words; when revolution
starts American troops will be rushed
to the border and made ready to
cross in case Diaz is unable to cope
with the revolt alone. II the American
army crosses it will not be ostensibly
to protect Daz, but to protect Ameri.
can property and American lives. And
to this end false reports of outrages
upon Americans or danger to Ameri.
can women and children will be de-
| '"'i"'Siy NiCuidteu III Oruer 10 arouse
the nation to justify the crime of in.
vasion.
The other book, Mr.. Creelman's bi.
ography of Diaz follows the lines of
a number of other lives of the man.
1t is entirely adulatry. 1t magnifies
all the mans deeds and their conse.
quences and centers in him all the
good which has come to the country,
1t does not read like the work of a
man who knows his subject more than
specifically. Many facts in the car.
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