Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-07-14
MEXICO
The Mexican Situation As II Appears
To An Ohio Citizen-Americani
Mexicans - A Thousand Miles of
Mexican Boundary - Why Inter-
ventiOn Must Come Eventually.
By c. ]. Thompson, of Defiance, o.


The great Santa Fe Railroad sys-
tenn with a trackage of eleven thous-
and miles, and the Southern Pacific
System with an equal or larger track
age, inclusive of a Mexican line from
Nogales down the west coast of Mexl-
CO. each employ Mexican laborers.
They handle pick and shovel as if
they had always used them and are
amazed at the size of their pay. The
success of these western ROADS has
encouraged the Pennsylvania system
to suppIant it's Italian section hands
with men from beyond the Rio
GIande who have been used to the
wages of slaves; so that real money
in land where they can spend it as
they please is a college education, an
opportunity for these miserable poems.
For one thousand miles Uncle Sam
touches elbows with Mexico coun-
try seventeen times as big as the
State of Pennsylvania and nearly
twice its population. Out of Mexico's
t1fteen millions inhabitants how many
have come to live in the United
States? Only fourteen thousand in
1914. In that same year one million,
two hundred thousand other imme-
giants landed in America. However,
there are many Mexicans located in
Southern California. The cities of
Cotton and San Bernardino each have
sections of their respective munich
palities inhabited almost exclusively
by them. They are loyal to the Unit
ed States. At the Southern Pacific
depot, Cotton, when the California
troop trains passed through, recent
", ladened with United States SOL
diers going to fight their former
countrymen these Americanized Mexi-
cans mingled with the crowds and
cheered the troops as Justify as any
native son of the Golden West.
At San Bernardino lives a physi-
can by the name of Trevino. He is
a brother Of the General Trevino of
Carranza's army. At Cotton, across
the street from my son lives high
toned Spanish family who settled
here several years ago. They migrat-
ed from the city and state of Chihau-
han. At the beginning of the. revo-
luton the head of the family sold out
all his business interests to his part
ner at Chihauhau who remained
there. The partner was millionaire.
Today he Is q pauper-lost every
thing by reason of frequent conscrip-
tons from de facto governments. The
family Of the other man lives in
peace and security at Cotton, South
ern, California.
A taste of American life, a taste
Of our high wages, free living and
free schools, Taste OF our better
health and clothes, and a taste of
their chances which other foreigners
are swift to seize after coming here
would soon make it hard to start
revolution in Mexico. What ails
Mexico and what ails the United
States that it fails TO attract the
Mexican as an immigrant as it at
tracts all other peoples? Men from
England, Germany, Holland, ireland,
Canada, Sweden, Wales, France and
Italy who have settled in America
have in one generation become not
ables. Who can recall the name of a
single Mexican who ever came to US
and achieved fame? They don't
come.
Did you ever stop to think that
from the year 1S21-the date Mexi-
co secured its independence from
Spain--until .Porfirio Diaz became
president in 1S77-the country had
never previously been so miserably
viceroyed or captain-generalized as it
had been Presidented? Between 1921
and 1877 it averaged five presidents
a year. Since Diaz was last inaugu-
rated president in December 191O-six
short years ago-the country has
had nine rulers or Presidents or First
Chiefs or whatever they may be call
ed. In fact the country is sick with
anarchy. Intervention is bound to
come, notwithstanding that as l write
this Carranza is for peace. His reply
to the latest American demands is
most conciliatory. Don Venustiano
admits that conditions on the border
are intolerable, chargeable to the
presence of American troops on Mexi-
can soil, he asserts. Yet the First
Chief expresses a preference for a
settlement of the questions at issue
BY direct negotiation. Poor Old Don
Venuatianol Pitiably unable to ex-
ercise authority in his own govern
ment, even to controlling his military
commanders, he makes ludicrously
empty assurances that Mexican
troops will establish peace and order
in Northern Mexico" and that "ade-
Quate measures will be taken to pre-
vent a repetition of raids into Ameri-
can territory" OF course no one takes