The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1914-05-29
MEXICO FAILS TO
USE ADVANTAGES
Natural Resources Are Richest
In Entire World.
YET NATION is BACKWARD.

Oldest University Established Years
Ago, Yet Masses Are lgnorant-con-
stitution Perfect, but Rulers Always
Have Been Law Unto Themselves.
Mines Most Valuable of All.
Mexico City.-"Perhaps nowhere else
in the world is there a country so full
Of contrasts as Mexico" says William
Joseph Showater. with a university
established before John Harvard, Elihu
Yale or William and Mary were born.
the masses of its people are hopeless
ly ignorant With hospital founded
before jamestown was even dreamed
Of, it is one Of the most backward re-
gions of the earth in a medical way.
With natural riches greater than those
of thousand Midases, its masses are
just as poor as the proverbial church
mouse. With a constitution as per-
feet as any organic law in the civiliz-
ed world, it is a nation whose rulers
always have been a law unto them
selves.
Here you will see a Mexican half
breed, barefOoted, wearing a dollar
pair of trousers, fifty cent shirt and
ten dollar sombrerO. There, at a
single glance and within the length of
single city block, you may see an
Indian cargador, donkey, an oxcart,
a carriage, a railroad train, street
car and an utomobile-almost every
type of lOcomotion since Adam. You
may tread the burning sands of a
tropical desert with the wet of the
perpetual snow Of towering mountains
still upon your Shoes You may take
single railway journey Of thirty-six
hours in which the people you see at
the railroad station will be dressed In
fou- different weights of clothing. Ev-
everywhere you turn are contrast, high
lights and deep shadows.
"No other country south of the Rio
Grande is so well supplied with rail-
roads. Prior to the Madero revolution |
it had 10000 miles Of up to date Amer
lean railroad, which carried 11,0O0,- |
900 passengers annually and handled |
about 100000 tons of freight. Their
total revenues amounted to about $40,- |
100000. The government owns a con-
trolling interest in the major portion
Of the mileage of the railroads.
Mexico produces one-third of the
worlds silver, a considerable percent
age of its gold, one-ninth of its lead
and one-twentieth of its copper. The
mineral production, exclusive
Of iron, coal and petroleum, amounted
TO $158,000000 in 1910. The famous
ron mountain at Durango is estimated
% contain G00,000,000 tons of iron ore,
which is worth seven times the value
If all the gold and silver mined In
Mexico in two centuries. The Santa
Maria graphite mines are the largest
md most important in the western
world. The region around the gulf Of
Mexico is rich in petroleum. One com
1any at Potrero del Llano struck a
susher which flowed 100000 barrels of
Ill day.
"The drawn work of the Mexican
indian is justly famed throughout the
world and deserves to rank with the
NEST of Spanish and italian laces
'he Indians make all sorts Of small
bjects to attract the centavos of the
our1st. The little dolls of Cuernavaca, :
half inch tall and dressed in finely
embroidered raiment, are the admira
lon of every one who sees them. The
mall clay animals, perfectly fash
)ned and ranging from the peaceful
Og to the charging bull and the buck !
lg mule, would do credit to the genius Z
{ many sculptor whose name figures {
l the art publications Of the world
Tut perhaps the most wonderful Of all q
re the tiny dressed fieas which may d
Q bought In Mexico City. Another