The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1913-12-11
THE MEXICAN MIDDLE.


items which have rendered such result
probable, ami have made this country
1.-THE laughing stock of all Europe are
worthy of public attention. In the first
place many deny the right and question
the wisdom of President Wilson's at
tempt to dictate who Mexico shall have
for President. On this point recent
statement from F. Hopkinson Smith, the
artist, author, engineer, etc, may be
quoted. He has travelled extensively in
Mexico, has made it the subject of one
of his we'll known books and will be gen.
orally recognized as competent authority
He says:
Huerta is strong man, and the only
man who can bring order out of chaos.
The administration should have recog-
nized him. 1t has gone too far row to
back out. and it must abide by the conse-
quences. 1T Huerta was overthroWn by
Carranza, we should recognize Carranza,
and if Carranza was overthrown, to
recognize his successor, until in time a
stable government would be established
in Mexico.
The administration answers this by
saying that it cannot recognize a gov
eminent whose acts are stained with
blood That is foolish The admins
tration did not hesitate to recognize
Servia and the sanguinary governments
of other countries torn by revolutions.
Some day scon a drunken Mexican
rebel soldier will invade hacienda, it's
inhabitants will flee to the coast and be
taken on board an American warship. A
landing party of American sailors will
go ashore, an American will be shot, and
then the fat will be in the fire
have been ashamed, as sat in the
clubs of London, to hear America dis
cussed and ridicu!ed because of the Will
son Mexican policy. Wilson and Bryan
have mace this country the laughing
stock Of all Europe,
The Huerta government was recog-
nized by Great Britain and had this
country done so peace might have been
restored IN Mexico ard the loss of life
and property of American citizens been
aVerted Instead, Americans were or
dered by the government, which should
have protected them, to leave the coun-
try, abandoning their property; and ac-
cording TO one estimate about two hun
dred Americans have been killed and
American property destroyed up to the
middle Of October amounting to two
hundred millions. The property inter-.
ests involved are very great. An Amer
lean engineer contributes to recent is
sue of The Sunday Magazine an article
captioned yankee Money in Mexico"
in which he says that more than a thou
sand million dollars of American capital
is invested in that country. The value
of the financial interests in Mexico of
citizens of the United States is equal to
the interests of the Mexicans themselves
plus those of all other countries. This
billion dollars is in Mexico to stay ''For
the present much of that vast sum is
dead. Its monuments are he smokeless
stacks of smelters and of mills and fac
tories, the ruined, silent mountains of
buildings shat marx the reduction plants
of great mines, the deserted plantations
that have gone back to the jungle and
the ranches that the desert sands are
taking title to orce more -
About 50 600 Of our ccuntrymen have
been living in Mexico and fourishng
there. How many American investors
there are who live in the United States
never has been Calculated Americans
were largely interested N the Mexican
railways, but mining is probably the in
dustry in which the greatest number of
Americans arr interested The mines of
that country are fabulouslI rich and have
never been fully developed A few years
before his death Cecil Rhodes, the en-
pire builder, wrote of Mexico: II am
not blind to the unison Of opinion as ex-
pressed by scientists and experts that
Mexico will one day furnish the gold,
silver and cooper of the world; that from
her hidden vaults, her subterranean
treasure houses, will come the gold, sill
yer, copper and precious stones that will
build the empires of tomorrow and make
future cities of the world resemble New
Jerusalems.
In recent address at Worcester.
Mass, John Hays Hammond of Glouces-
ter, Mass, the millionaire mine owner
and expert, world wide traveller, and
a ran whose public utterances carry
weight, severely scored the Administra-
ton. "a nation that does not protect
its citizens and investors is Unworthy of
the name of nation he declared, after
saying that honest workingmen, encour
aged to locate in Mexico, are forced to
throw away the savings of lifetime
They are told to get out, fee the coun-
try, where their all is located" he adj
ded. "Investors ought to be backed and
protected as long as they prove honest"
And further:
Under diplomacy of Mr.. Bryan would
not put a cent of money in foreign
country, ror would any man of sense.
1t is imperative that our government
guarantee the fair treatment of its peo-
pie who have invested their capital in
legitimate industry under laws obtaining
in the country when the investments in
question were made. Certain it is, that