The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1916-07-07
WHY DO THEY HATE us9
WHY do Mexicans hate US?

Why do MeX1canS nate ub
We can understand how they may
have inherited a feud against tine
United States for the unjust war OF
conquest and annexation they may
very reasonably have interpreted the
war OF 1s46 to have been since 10 con-
firmed the separation of Texas and de-
nriyed Mexico of its fairest domain.
But why should Mexicans hold indi'
vidual Americans in personal hatred
who live among them, and have inti'
mate business dealings and social re-
Ilations with them?
The Philadelphia Public Ledger
quotes ian enlightened Philadelphia
who travelled through Mexico in recent
years." as saying:
"Treat native down there as you
would treat man here and not as
ldog, which is the way he has been
treated, and he is your friend for life."
Are we to understand, then, that 1t
liz the rule for Americans In Mexico
Ito treat the natives as they would
treat dog" and IL 80, why?
There must be some reason for the
Especial and virulent hatred with which
1.-The Mexicans are claimed by those
who have personal knowledge Of the
conditions to distinguish Americans
labove other nationalities, and this,
notwithstanding the Americans ordi'
Inarily are In position to befriend the
natives and make fast and devoted
personal friends of them, IL they are
ESQ well.disposed as the abvoe quota
ltion would imply.
i Uncle Sam touches elbows with
Mexico for 1000 miles, says the writer
lin the Public Ledger, bat we don't
know Mexico as we'll as know Tibet
and Mexico knows more of the man in
1.-The moon than she knows OF US.
Mexico ia seventeen times as big
las Pennsylvania and has nearly twice
!, that states population. But OF Mexi
, co.'s more than 100000 in habitants
how many came to the United States
in 1914?
"Only $4,000! In that same yeal
,2O4, 900 other migrants landed II
America.
why is it that out Of every eighty
four foreigners who seek q better
; home In this republic only one is .
:. Mexican, when all he has to do to gel
here 10 to step across an imaginar!
q line?
what ails the Mexican and wha
ais the United States that 1t falls Il
attract him as 1t attracts all othel
\ peoples?"
This seems indeed a significant cir
cumstance, though we have no inklin'
of what the significance may be. Tn
writer says that the Pennsylvania
Railroad company recently brough
, there from Ell Paso 1870 Mexicans, VIII
!, took the places Of Italian track labor
= ers. They handled the pick and shove
: las IL they had been used to them, an
they were amazed and delighted q
the size of the pay which was so mucl
greater than they had been accus
toned to receive.
N "A taste Of American life," tn
Q writer suggestively says, "a taste Q
Q our high wages, free living and ire
s schools, taste Of our better healt
y and clothes, and q taste Of thos
chances which other foreigners ar
:, swift to seize after coming here, woul
! soon make 1t as hard to start a rev
). luton in Mexico as in Philadelphia
"Who's Who is full Of the name
of men from England, Germany, Ho
land. Ireland, Canada, Sweden, Vale
France and Italy who have come
IIAmerica and in one generation becon
] notables.
"But who can recall the name OF
Isingle Mexican who ever came TO !
and achieved fame? The trouble
they don't come"
But why?
It il a mystery too deep for us
:, fathom.
And yet, numbers Of them seem
IIhayei the intelligence necessary to II
pel them to hasten across the bord
. and get into American territory +
safety. hostile as they hold It 10 B
in view Of the imminent menace
: war.