The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-10-08
THE MEXICAN PROBLEM.

Comes to US through the mails with the publishers compliments a book written upon Mexico by the Manager ot the Wall Street Jour nal and the Boston News Bureau: Mr Barron. It is entitled The Mexican Problem.
 As q financial authority Nr, Bar ron is recognized as en" cf the foremost in the country. And ma turally his economic views are those we might expect in . man who is a financial author:ty'.
 Briefly his conception of the Mex ican problem is this: There ii no security in Mexico for investments: no courts, no legislatures, no sta bility st government. no law and order. Hence capital is hampered ill opening up the enormous wealth of the country: hence the peons 9r" denied opportunity of laboring for capital: hence poverty. destitutiCn, disorder and general social cha )s results.
 II is not a land question. It is not liberty question. It is jus A question whether or not tho in vestor will be allowed to develop his investments, giving 10 labor rom Capitals employment of lp- bor, an opportunity to work, to ch itself raise it's family and to provide such education technical or otherwise as IS suited to ii.
 Because the government in Mex leo is to all intents and purposes unsettled CT actually non existing because the United States has main taiucd it's policy of non-interferencc. because the United States refused TO realize it's responsibility for the order and law that must be main, tained if thc nation is to progress, bullets instead of gold are cur rencv
 We have no doubt in the world that f the nations Of the world so so determined and they maintained a DOW werful government in Mexico, law and order would most certainly prevail. We have no doubt at all that those tremendous riches that Bar ron talks about would be thereupon opened mp and that sr Cncl nous .nGnbnr of people Woa.d h@}c steady work and a very small portion of The population have steady accumu- lation of wealth Industries would spring up overnight. Agriculture would make the desert blossom as the rose. great public works would prevail generally and money would be as safe in it's investments as ir Is possible to conceive.
 But would that have solved the Mexican question? There's the vub. .-
 We just turn our eyes to Europe where for the past three years has been going on a little war has made |, L,c trouble in Mexico be as a storm ,,n a te2cup to a gale on the living ocean In those counties economic hnancial and social sanity such Gs Wall Street had desired for Mexico mad for long prevailed. Yet it has fhockcned the cities with desolation and strcwu the fields with dead and iaciming.
 Surely even IL Europe the social problems which are so easily solved by the Rarrons for Mexico are still vsnI..e problem
 Moreover take peaceful times Tor a.x2mple. Here is Great Brltalh' @' ugfior if there ever was ona ot law and-ordcr-cmpire-b builders Her shlb noIoths are all shibboleths Of demo ,rarv. Hor economic theories gre founded upon the stability Of thing: for him who hath.
 British capital seeks far hei' for it's investments. It demand as the prime consideration law an' order. And it's success in develop ment the world ever is exceeded b, no nation and eQuallod by few ha lions which havc been great in his tory
 \ great country England, Mi Barron. But get into some of thes .,itics that are dark from factor