The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-21

ing this mineral from the ground.
 R. V. Pesdueira, special representa-
 tive of the Mexican government, has
 spent several weeks In the United States
 in effort to acquaint the people with
 the new government and it's aims and
 to adjust differences so there may be
 recognition. He made a report to his
 government while the Americans were
 in Mexico City, and made addresses at one or more banquets. In his greatest
 address he expressed the opinion that America would soon agree with the pol
 icies of the new government. At the
 same time, he severely criticised the
 American newspapers for what he called
 their misrepresentation of Mexico and Article s7. MT Pesquera may have made a preliminary success as a secret diplornatst. lbut as a practitioner of open diplomacy he is a failure.
 BARRED SENATOR
 He is the man wno wired Mexican customs officers on the border not to New Mexico presumably because Senator Fall at one time urged the American government to intervene in Mexican afr | fairs The Mexican government imme- diately sent Mir. Pesqueira a telegram. telegram which was no Chinese pug gle, and which did not convey a hid | den meaning when it let him know that he had no more to do with the passing | oi Americans into Mexico than the | high mogul of Senagambia. The, most charitable thing that may be said about 1 him is that he probably read one news paper or one class of newspapers in 1 America and decided that if one was had, | there could be no good ones
 j, Not a Mexican asked an American to work for the recognition of the new government. However. in everything there was a bid for the friendship of l America, a bid which Mexico has not 1 offered in many years. There was a general feeling in the republic that the | imaginary line between the two countries | should not keep them from business
 and social intercourse Mexico expressed a real desire for American manufactured products and for the help of America
 in removing the debris of revolution. KILBY HAROUSES HOPE
 | Governor Thomas E. Kiiby in several addresses in the capital city touched the hearts of the Mexicans by his expres- sicns of sincere sympathy and of hope. | He said frankly he and the other visi- l tors could not speak for the American government in the matter of recognition. but as an individual hoped the day would soon come when the state department at Washington could recognize the new government and could open the way | for the establishment of the American embassy at Mexico City and the Ameri- can consulates throughout the republic One of Governor Kilby's addresses was at a reception at the department of for I eign relations by pr. Hidalgo. minister of foreign relations for Governor Kilby. otber members of the Alabama delega- I ton, Governor Hobby of Texas and oth- CT American visitors. He acted as 1 spokesman for the Americans after pr, | TIidalgo had told them of the pleasure | poV ha n, racpiyinpr the Americans and in showing them about ] the republic. Governor Kilby predicted l a great future for the new government and the establishment of commercial re | lations between the republic and the other nations of the world.
 As Soon as America recognizes Mex | ico, there will be opp ,rtunites in Mex ico for Americans which will be bey yond description. Business has been stagnant for 10 years or more Few improvements ! have been made. No railroads have been built. No rolling stock has been pur- | chased Municipalities have not made repairs and extensions of the various ccnveniences. Irrigation projects have | been abandoned. Business is now com ducted in the republic. with the excep- I tion of Mexico City under the system | used before the world war. There has I been no advanceneent
 MEXICO NEEDS HELP
 l Mexico tynnot do the necessary things | without otxside help. It needs foreign | loans. It needs time in which to meet l it's national obligations. It needs the | genius and Skill of foreigners and in it's hour of need it has turned to America. | While Mexico is making this appeal, and while the gradual readjustment is re- ] turning Mexico to it's old position in | the world, America is asleep. For many weeks England, Germany, France and | other nations have had their engineers and other trained men in the republic Daily reports are being made to their l countries on business conditions. Various projects are being investigated. The
 moment recognition is extended by those
 nations, their capital will be ready to 1 finance the projects. When the first i factories are constructed and the first l irrigation projects are completed and l the other countries begin to reap their l financial harvest under the guarantees lof protection of the new government. American engineers will move toward l Mexico only to find that others had
 picked the fruits and left the thorns l for the camp followers.
 l The Mexican government published a ! list of needs of the re"n'e vN'" 'Ne i Americans were there. Among the fore 1 most were stees rails, otner railroad | equipment and rolling stock. Alabama alone could furnish every class of sup l plies which the people of Mexico will
 need during it's period of s'ehabiJita- ' tiOD