The daily morning oasis. [volume] (Nogales, Ariz.) 1917-1920, 1920-09-23
RETURNING FAITH AND CONFIDENCE

There is so much distrust expressed upon all
sides with present conditions that it as though
all men have lost faith in another end that there
has been lost the old spirit of cooperation that moved
communities states and nations forward to COM
mon end and a common destiny. Yet there is still
manifest great deal of faith in the final outcome
while there is disposition to hope for the best
Just at the time it is noted that there is extant
disposition on the part of business mer generally
We hear of large investors who contemplating
embarkng in Mexican enterprises; but we are told
they are awaiting two events Outcome of the pres
denta election in the United States and Inauguration
of Presdent-elect Obregon in Mexico. Business.
wants to know who will conduct affairs in this coun
try; and it wants to see General Obregon in the ex
ecutve chair in Mexico. Then waiting will cease the
oodgates holding back the stream of capital will be
raised, and there will pour forth for investment
torrent of wealth that will revive and quicken en-
terprise in all parts of both countries
In a remarkable degree General Obregon has re-
ceived confidence from capital and business inter-
ests in the United States ard there is felt strong
disposition to back his efforts for rehabilitation of
his country and development of its wonderful re-
sources with wide range of investment; and while
there is every confidence in his ability to cope with
the problems that will come for solution and in the
stability of his administration there is disposition
to wait and which set of statesmen in the United
States he will have to deal with in adjustment of
affairs between the two republics. Everybody feels
that whether is BE- Cox or Harding at Washington
cordial relations will exist between the White House
and Chapultepeo; but there will be doubtless differ
ences in methods and there is a natural desire TO
await developments of November I'd, to determine
which of the two aspirants for the American pres
idency will shape and control the methods adopted
These conditions described are but natural re-
suit of the terrible connections through which two
world has passed in the past five years-Mexico ex
perienced them through decade. Nations clutch
ing another in death struggles; their cities and
their rural districts working ground for alien
spies; correspondence subjected to censorship fac
tories, railway bridges, shops, homes dynamited
profiteers robbng the people; ard many malign
influences working to create distrust and hatred
what wonder is it that the human heart and mind
have become faithless and men have grown without
regard for one anothed? All these things have rend
cred men pessimistic cautious fearful That is why
there is tendency on all sides to wait awhile.
Such conditions cannot last always; and faith
holds that they will terminate shortly. AS outlined
hereinbefore, when the American and Mexican people
know who going to conduct affairs Of govern
ment in the respective republics, and konw the
methods by which they will work. there will come that
atom of confidence which may be likened to faith in
the allegory-the scriptural mustard seed, which
faith spread and leavened the entire mass. And So
when conditions Defined as they will be by the
first of January there will be planted that leaven of
confidence which will grow rapidly that upon all
sides there will be wondrous progress, development