The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1916-03-18
FOLLY To TEACH
LOVE AND TRUST.
t D MEX|CANS
MEXICAN HiTE FOR TIE
AMERICANS DATES BACK
TO IN UNI 81 WAR
CBy Frederick starrl

prof. Frederick Starr the noted
anthropologist, knows Mexico better
taan any other American. Ia pursuit
of his studies-the study OF the sci
ence and humanity he made 20 yis.
its to that country and, as is his prac.
tee, he lived among the plain people
the poems. Prof Starr has written
book on Mexico published by The
Bible House Chicago. The follow.
lug from it is printed here by special
uermissionl
Anti.Americanism is reality iu
Mexico We Americans are hated as
a people We are hated as a nation.
Why do the Mexicans hate us?
Primarily aud fundamentally be-
cause they are Spanish-lndians. while
wr are Anglo Saxon Our character
tics are profoundly different. Our
ways of looking at things are differ
ent We desplse the MeNicans be.
cause they differ from u.s. they hate
w. because We differ from them.
We have sept them quantities OF
Gdventurers who have gone there to
show them how to do things They
think everything in Mexican meth,
ods is mistake; they will introduce
real American methods But in a
thousand ways American methods OF
business are ill-adapted to Mexican
surroundings. and the attempt to
force them upon the country Is pure
folly. no other foreigners who 90
tc Mexico make that attempt Even
the English do not, and the German
the French, and Italians adapt them
selves to the conditions of the coun-
try as far as possible. and not the
conditions of the country to their
own ideas. So there exists between
item and the Mexicans a much bet
ter feeling than between the latter
and ourselves
Another reason the Mexicans do
rot love us is that they have had
small reason to admire our official
representatives among them Our
consular service the world over has
feen laughing stock, particularly
Las it been a disgrace in Mexico. Of
ten our representatives there have
l,en men OF interior ability with no
Intelligence or social training, and
With no moral ideals.
The incompetence of our represen-
tatives as officials, their lack Of
character as men, their scant mental
q dowments and total lack of social
g alitics. have done much to make
tie Mexicans dcspse us
The Mexicans hate us because we
have deprived them Of territory.
The loss of Texas was serious blow
AID they have always ascribed it to
Us We took from then more than
half their territory as a result of the
Il Just war of 1917 We took az
vantage OF Mexico's internal difficult
les at the time. and the Mexican war
vas no great credit to our ability
As fact We wanted land-and We
took it, Mexico has Lot forgotten
Size will not forget that act
II is moi strange that she suspects
- in the present with this record
ol past aggression.
The idea prevails throughout the
republic that We have our eyes on
j. wer California and that We are en-
gonraging the rebellion in the north.
ii is believed that We hope to play
{ ere the same part that We PLAYED
when Texas pronounced its independ-
eaee.
American mines. American lumber
camps. American grazing lands.
American oil wells, they believe will
be our excuse for taking over another
shee OF their territory, and reducing
Mexico to the position OF a Central
american state as insignificant as
Guataina.a
But undoubtedly the chief reason
Why the Mexicans today hate US so
h.artay!is that they feel We are ex.
rloitirg them and their country. Ev-
cry where they find American capt
tai owning their sources Of wealth.
nlaaly, ee, feel that they have
been defraaff s"Thk islhoR, as
IL In KehnstA TsirTer says III his
book on ~Barbarous Mexico. this
is how the typical Mexican farm is
q millionaire farm. and why it has
Teen so easy for such Americans as
William Randolph Hearst. Harrison
GRAY Otis. f. II. Hartman. the Rock.
efe.lers. the Guggenheims and others
eseh to have obtained possession Of
r. illions of Mexican acres"