Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-05-01

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"The actual investment Of Ameri
can money in Mexico is probably a
great as that of England. German!
and France combined. American
money to the tune of billion or NOR
Is invested in railroads, in rubber, II
oil and in mines. Reduced to names
of individuals, you disclose Guggen
helms, Rokefellers, Aldriches, Spey
ers, Pierces, Morgans. Now and the1
a real American in Mexico is or wal
found operating hacienda, but fo1
the most part the American actually
on the spot are or werein the employ
of somebody or doing business in 8
| moderate way. It is not the money
of the Americans who reside or did
reside in Mexico that runs up to the
big billion total; it's the money OF
the men who make things hum IN
Wall street.
Investments Of the British.
"England's investments in Mexico
are largely in mines, haciendas, bank
ing, contracting and manufacturing.
Germany does the hardware and ma
chinery business of the country,
France owns the dry goods trade, root
and branch. When you add to this
that the grocery business is done by
the Spaniards. it is time to ask the
question, What does the Mexican
do! And the answer is simple
the big Mexican owns the land and
the houses and the little Mexican ia
his slave. There Is q sort of middle
class Mexican who is clerk in the Of
nee of the foreigner. He 10 becoming
more numerous and he helps the stud
ents spread discomfort because the
foreigners do the business of the
country which the big Mexican il too
timid to undertake himself. 81. ~.
"Mexicans generally do not know
what the Monroe Doctrine is, but
they regard it as something implying
q sinister design against Mexico. The
first American soldier to cross tho
line will be an invader and he will
find promptly reunited Mexico
against him, He will be met by four
teen millions Of men, women and chin.
dren and will encounter q scheme OF
warfare not contemplated in his phil.
osophy 4 - 4
Instead Of the military picnic
which he may be expecting, he viii
find himself surrounded by a primi-
tive people to within no weapon l ii
prescribed; he will find all rules of
war suspended and no prisoners tax
en-. He will meet dynamite, poisoned
water and torture. He will face
deathtraps in lonely hillsides and am.
bushes in arroyos. All the brutal in
stincts of his nature will be aroused
In retaliation. He will find himself
avenging barbarous treatment OF
comrades by acts of barbarism be.
longing to an ancient age. Discipline
will give way to demonstration, and
we Americans will be weaving the
horrors Of another unholy war into
the web Of our national life. It will
be q Philippine struggle over again,
magnified seven fold because it viii
rage over seven times the area.
Uncle Same's Mission.
One may voice the diplomatic SUP
gestion of q European. who said: 1t
seems to be the mission Of Uncle
Sam to hammer harmony into .
hemisphere, SO let him proceed with
Mexico. Not with arms but with AZ
gument. Never did! constitutions. rul.
er need help more sorely than does
President Madero. He stands now il
his palace with his back against the
wall. He Will fight stubbornly aKainsx
all the world, until he fas. He pre.
ferS to die fighting an Alien tnan II,