Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-08-09

eighty years previous to the admins
tration of President Diaz, a period Of
feudalism corresponding with that of
the past five years existed in Mexico.
A condition of peonage existed in that
republic before the advent Of Amer
lean capital and industry more obnox-
ious and repugnant than any system
Of slavery that ever existed in the
States of the South in the United
States before the Civil War. The
wages paid the natives were not ade-
quage for their existence. Under the
peonage system there the men, wom-
en- and children were without intrinsic
value, as there were millions to, take
the place of those who disease carried
away. An epidemic was often consid-
cred a blessing among the laboring
classes.
upon the emancipation of the
poems, in order to provide means for
their employment and existence,
President Diaz, whose country was
bankrupt, invited foreign capital and
ideas for the development of the coun-
try and advancement of the people.
As result of the absence of trans
portation facilities, thousands Of val
liable mining properties, productive
farming and grazing lands and other
interests were rendered valuless.
American capital and citizenship was
the first to respond to the urgent call
for aid. Feeling that they were en-
titled to the protection of the treaty
between the two countries, the con.
stitutional guarantees and pledges of
both the United States and Mexico,
with their money and persons the
Americans went to the unlimited field
for a great work. No country under
similar conditions ever underwent a
more marked evolution in the same
period of time. Instead of being ex-
plotted as they were so mercilessly by
some Of their own people before the
invasion of American capital and citi-
zenship, the general wage scale
throughout the republic was increased
from three to twenty or more fold.
Opportunities were opened up that
gave employment to practically all
who wanted wor, with the railways,
mines. factories, foundriees, smelters,
farms and hundreds of other fields
of employment. Where there were
no industrial and educational facili-
ties, schools, churches and industrial
institutions sprung up as If by magic.
"Throughout nearly thirty years the
relationship between the Americans
and Mexicans was as congenial and
cordial as ever existed between any
two people in the world. The Presi-
dent and duly constituted authorities
of the Mexican Republic had the unit.
ed support and cooperation of the
American citizenship Of that coun-
try. And suggestion of Intervention
would have been resented universally
by the Americans there, as was evil
denced in the petition of Americans
to President Taft in the beginning OF
the Madero revolution against Presf-
dent Diaz. The American press and
American people stood as unit by
the constituted authorities of the Mex.
lean government. These facts are
incontrovertable. Through misrepre.
sentation, which found its way
through portion of the press of the
United States, an uprising then re-
stricted to a small portion of the most
illiterate section Of Northern Mexico
and extending in no more than one
state, was given aid in its inception
by many Americans of the United
States and discountenanced by the
Americans of Mexico.
"Arms, money, ammunition and men
were furnished against the urgent pro-
test of the Americans of Mexico who
knew conditions and could forecast
the inevitable results. Prominent
Americans of Mexico supported by
capitalists and laboring Americans of
that country were sent to Washing
ton to protest, but their prayers were
unheard by our Government.
1.-THE retirement of President Diaz
resulted largely from aid of Mexicans
and Americans of the United States
to the universal disappointment and
profound regret of the Americans Of