The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-07-05
AMERICANS
in MEXICO
PESSI|MISTS
Believe New Regime Is Try
ing to Do Better. But See
Great Difficulties
ny HERBERT COREY

ny HERBERT COREY
CITY or ME.NICo. July b.~-Thero
van be no doubt that a feeling OF
peSsimism Is increasing in the
American colony herr. IL may he
unwarrantei IL may be that too
much Is being asked OF the new adj
ministration. Rome was not built
IN day. For all that the colony Is
distinctly less hopeful than IL was
one short week ago.
The new crowd IL the old crowd
with new labels pasted on" said one
oid.timer here 10 me. There isn't
the difference OF cyciash In them.
l1ENlCO's BUSINESS
UNDERGOING LIQUIDATION
The situation. after all. is sim.
Z pic one. Mexico may be considered
- business that Is undergoing a
process OF liquidation The FORMER
! management was sour tempered. un-
AIR and dishonest. II had alienated
Uuod friends of the house. interfcrcd
With Its own factory production and
uobbed the till. AT last Aware Ohrc
ron was named as receiver by the
r
8uerta was put in temporarily as
& neneral manager and the work OF re
orEanization was begun.
~our properties" the receiver has
utated In circular TO the stockhold
0rA -are OF immense potential value
But before they can be worked to
odvantaee a loan must be secured
Every one knows that. Mexico Is
Defhaps. the richest semi developed
lind In the world. Her silver pro
auction has steadily increased for
centuries, barring short periods Of
Hcvolutionary interference. Every
enc knows OF her petroleum wealth
Not 10 per cent OF her sugar land Is
under cultivation. Tho Japanese are
planning development OF bed Of
from ore from which they say they
esn underscii any steel mills in the
World. Her farming lands are In.
ered.hly rich. Even under rcvolu
Gonary conditions some OF these
hnds have paid 100 per cent annu
ally. Every variety OF fruit known
- tropic OF temperate zone Is grown
here. You can buy n handful OF
Aopais for $40 American. Her hard
wocd forests are among the greatest
- the world
MORAL HaZSRD
FOLDS MEXICO BACK
II IL the moral hazard that IL hold.
mg Mexico back. Diax was tyrant
md his associates were grafters, but
~ enforced some degree OF law and
order. Since Diaz's time there has
Deen almost no Law in the land TIE
*Vnrtous generals ruled Their provinces
Tor their own pockets and the cen.
erl government, presided over By
*Carranxa was based upon a comblna-
hon OF generals. in which each re-
manned faithful just 80 long as all
remained faithful A lame wolf runs
With the pack as long as he darcs.
; Tor he knows his brethren VIII turn
on him when he falls out. When
The break came all the generals-aii
~ those who had really strong In
dependent forces-abandoned Car.
rama almost overnight
carranza made no attempt to pay
eff old debts. Perhaps he could not.
for II took all his revenues to keep
his hungry. generals contented and
keep the administration machine In
gear But he aroused distrust apart
from his failure to pay. He sacked
The two largest banks In the country
81 their cash balances No other
bank has dared have a sufficiently
large sum on hand since then to
eempt an administration He denied
The legality OF loan which had been
&ntered into by the Huerta admins
ration He ernbrolied himself with
foreign governments by his persist.
ont efforts to loot foreign-owned
property under the form of law. He
did no building. he repaired no rail
roads. he had not one constructive
thought When he could he cheated
the graffers. for he was essentially
an honest man.
SCABRERA GOT 1T AND
WE DARE NOT SQCEAL"
such and such men were in a graft
scheme" I was told. Luis Cabrera
was minister OF the treasury The
Gay came when the head Of the graft.
ers was to go 10 the treasury to get
the money. Some millions were to
b. divided. Carranza had given his
consent. The other CRITTERS awaited
his return He came back cursing:
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