Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-08-18
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When 1t comes to what gamblers and
! thieves call q SHOW down" II will be
| round that Mexico is in the same fix
as SaEso Domingo and Honduras. ana
some other Latin states. She Is mort
gagged for more than she can pay. much
more than she would sell for in cash.
Honduras owes s30.Go0.0oo with interest
for fifty years. for about fifty miles OF
narrow gauge railroad that wouldn't
sell for old Iron. saddled upon the re-
pubic by an cn.erprising American
consul. The republic is very much like
Mexico. there Is no natural endowment
either OF forest. iieid or mine that can
be worked with u living profit.
No Prar;es for Granaries.
Extraordinary development OF
wealth in our OWE country is due to
our extensive plains. in rainy climate
that can be farmed by machinery.
where one man can produce food for
ten or twenty. and this garden OF the
! world was given away to the poor OF
christ.andom. There is no other such
country unoccopuied and no such
land in Mexico at any time. The man
who works in Mexico. If he eats enough
and keeps himself in any degree OF
comfort, may get living by planting
fruit to ship to the United States. but
there is no margin to pay anything on
the national debt. The country can
borrow no more money and the people
can pay no taxes, in fact what they
owe was stolen by the gangs who con-
tracted the debts. 1t viii be difficult
to place another Mexican loan except
by a hold-up Of a bunch OF European
napd
now is a bankruptcy bunch at The
Hague.
The only paying railroad in Mexico
is used. for carrying fremented. filthy
booze, like near beer. into the cities.
made from masuey. the only plant
that will grow on the high mesas OF
poor OF Mexico is in intervention. The
American armies no doubt would In
troduce plenty Of corn, corned beef.
corn syrup. corn whisky, and va
riety of health foods" made princi-
paily Of corn starch. cotton seed oil
and embalmed meats and hand painted
PINK vaseiine called butter.
The real people Of Mexico do not
care boot who rules. They feel about
it as the ass in the fable did-it can
1iot DC worse.
There are. Of course. few fertile
mountain slopes and river margins in
Chiapas, Campechee and other states.
suitable for coffee and food products.
There are considerable tracts dotted
here and there, near the cities and
que bios on those vast mesas OF mex
haustible irrigated land, four centuries
IN private hands which feed millions,
but these good lands are owned by a
few families and If the politicians who
hunger for honors, gold braid. shoulder
straps, authority, dinero and thirst for
gore would take nachetes and plant
the tropical hillsides in the south in
wholesome food plants, let the aicaldes
OF the villages. towns and cities man
age local affairs, give the unfortunate.
patient. long-suffering people rest
from government the Mexicans could
| be happy yet. If our army goes down
there with plenty comtda Americana
F., they will be met with open arms and
| empty stomachs.
Rulers Skipped Witt, The Money.
! The office seekers think they are do
ing as the Ameficanos have done: they
read TRANSACTIONS Of the biographs OF
our heroes Of the revolutionary war,
| the secession war. the Indian wars. and
cousins, Captain Jack, Geronimo. Sit
ting Bull. etc, the regulators. whites
caps, n!ght-riders. the strikers, the
militia massacres. in fact the continual
state OF belligerency in our United
| States. They point with -scorn at the
patriotism Of Lincoln when he had a
million killed ostensibly ITO save the
union" but really to free the negroes.
| They glory in the work OF the great
Marion when he mastered his Tory
neighbors, and the glorious galaxy OF
revolutionary heroes who cleaned out
the standpatters Of that day. In fact
| they know a great deal about us. and
are very sore about the steal OF Cali
fornia and Texas. the richest half o.
their nation, by deals with thievinG
politicians Ike Santa Ana. who wa
repudiated and under sentence OF death
(, for treason at the time he sold hall
the nation and skipped to Paris with
the funds the prototype Of civil and
military financier ever since. They
all buy estates in Europe with the
money they steal from their own peo-
pie. Mexico was poor in the days OF
SAM Ana, poor ever since, and th<
only relief came from the sale o.
worthless, stocks and bonds based or
promised prosperity that can never
come to wasted nation. Mexico
can not exist as a nation unless she
can continue to borrow money. She
\ has suffered the fate OF Marsyas. Por-
frio Diaz was her Apollo. He nailed
her hide to a tree. AS they say down
in Maine, she is skun."