The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-02-26
MARCH ON MEXICO
IS BEING PLANNED
MOVEMENT Is CERTAIN BsT '"N-
CRETE EVIDENCE LAci a>"'
SAWS SHoTwEIL-
CANAL IS lNNOL NED
,oss,n,,rTIEs ATTENDANT tF"N
irs COMPLETION LEADS
TO PRESENT SIT
IATio>.
H. ruou,s c. snorwEih.

,....ta,es arasstruggling WIN NV VA
1yaul,, pruhiens al no" !" 80,
sy,anev.. business and puhlc rcn '4''s''
'h>'iss .,,,,ary TO the experience ot
mankind. the realis i'nPoi va " .rr ~.
- country are planning Aot 'n'
t,.rr,,t business and poli'lfal o'-
I-t,n+euts that viii come WIN .he
. .,,r.-+,,y ~ the Panama cam U. aS
,,,t+h ~ sure to- become pun o. 90
fav. months al the latest ana ~ i''e IN
- ,v.l hp known now LA -
,,s,,,ths plans nave been carein!uE ~
,ta ont to create coh"i''sn
-. tt necessary fer the amer
N'lt 80 90 march into Mexico Just
80. rne movement is IN thAi coh"t
80 S.here one can bc positive ot US
v,s4.n,.e bat unable to prove II win
concrete evidence .. .,,,.
~ tne credit 0T the American So
rnment and the American pe"p'S
,ap also pe said that the hioVo"1eh'
= ala not originate win Amer 'ean
uans. II began with that iaFse Pc
ntay. If business men In MeAco
-. eave heeorn.. tlred OF the inse-
cor. government that mas fhaae II
t,,n,,ss,nie for Mexico to be develop
u .-tl,sA-.aa4aerfEl- tplnsraa anu
Horticultural country thaf shs .us"
- he 1t may be that Americans
aala haaan- naSA- 10 -persuAae In Y ~
- --1r,,-r+.4-t.t- fe.F-tAas- haze Xasl- lhseI-
ests in the republic. since lhls my
ment il pretty sure 10 result IN "a"
..oynnlete pacincation of Mexico De
- thn Panama canal is fnished ii
~ none too soon 10 consider me i"s'
cal result.
Millions for Investors.
To American investors II he1~'9
millions in the way OF proHts' A"A ="
great part of the capital used lot uH
,,atapine the resources of Mexico VIII
come from the United states. II,
country is the richest mihsfai afu
.rr3c,,lturpI region Of - earth, ana
II IN practically undevel"aed' ~ "a
Hartman looked far ahead Wheh az
s,lapnad to build two thousand mics
ri southern Pacific track into MeN-
s4u He Was undoubtedly aiming iot
The Panama canal, and ms pans II
carried out With sigor, wiz put th'
tracks Of the Southern Pac'f'c a'ohs
SIDE the canal by the time SHIPS are
passing through it, ,.,a
But the richest parts OF MeNico
s,r, without population. and hetein
ups The most beautiful business pro-
r,os{tion anvwhe on earth. Inc over
having millions of Southern Europe
that in thc past b'on huHioussou
into coming 10 the Atlantic states oA
this country, where they have become
slaves in fact. If not In name, VIA
be taken in the future to the Taei'
nc coast states. and to Mexico by way
~ tho canal. All that country needs
a. n ucnulatiou. Mexico can raise
more food products than Canada, ano
hacat1sn of its location in the no.
zones together with its peculiar al
formation OF valley and table iahd, II
IL possible TO raise in Mexico every
thing that grows anywhere ON eartn
The Eidlewcis blooms on the sno"
covered rocks and mods down across
fields of wheat. corn ana cotloh u
orange and banana groves in tht
valley.
Tho scenery IL magnificent alon'
the Pacific coast. and all conditions
when the Panama canal Is hnisheo
viii be such as to attract the poor
industrious and fundamentally arust
millions from the Mediterranean sci
board The population In Mexic
ysiii double within ten years ate
lthe canal is opened. AT the sam
lime the population OF Oregon, Can
fornia and Washington will he null
1iplied several times, Parts of ina
country are arid. but there Is NOR
than enough water in tn. mountains
and In the artesian wells. which ap
oiled through gravity or by applica
ton of cheap power made possioi
with Oil fuel. to turn the whole coas
for one hundred miles inland, int
one garden spot
Nnv Struggle With CaimneSe.
with Zig things like the Mexica
situation in process of development
one can view with comparative calm
ness the. fruticSs political struggl
that is Incidental to the next pres
dental election. Investigations ca
bring out nothing more than In Ii
ready known, and understood in RI
gard TO the banks and the grei
trusts, both OF capital and iaho
There are abuses that ought 70 b
,.,, cogrNGted ~ nlany. directions hnL IN
object OF the Investigations Ia nj
70 correct abuses, but to excite I'll
punlic II Congress really wanted
correct abuses, II would undertak
some constructive eg*Aation. Or
ranized capital and organized laht
are equally oppressive 20 unorgani
ed competitors, Conspiracies III
dqubtellN exist III both.
Organized labor has made itself =
conspit uous that the general publ
t-sl- s2sala IEg thinks OF IL being In
taFk ~ labor, but IL in less tina
ten per cent. Organized capital hi
likewise seized strategic posiuc
from which IL wields such power
10 give the public the impression tn;
a feys men have most OF the none
whereas the Morgans and Rock
feilers actually won an insignifica
minority of the wealth of the coul
try Both organized labor and o
ganizea capital accomplish most
their wonders by pure biuffing. In {
investigation such as Congress III
undertaken In connection with u
money trusi. the big questions ;
isxue are being ignored deliberatel
TO say that they are not being il
nored deliberately would be to r
feet on the intelligence of Col
gress.
The problems that Congress is III
dertaking TO solve. being such
will solve themselves and cannot
solved by Investigations, business ms
must go ahead and ignore them. This
are the mosquitoes and gadfiies tn
poster hunters in the wilderness. b
the hunter, while he may slap
the pests now and then. does II
let them divert his attention fro
abe big game that he keeps in vie'
So business men must learn
II tolerate the pests and go ahead wi
both the best they can.
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PETERSBURG PEANUT MARKE