San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-23
j. s. MEX|L.
PROBLEM NOall
THING OF. PAST
Oil Man Tells Administra-
ton Everything
Serene.
FRIEND OF OREGON
United States Should Aid
Mexicans to Come
Back.
FRIEND OF OREGON
BY JOHN EDWIN NEvIN.

! Copyright, by the San Antonio Light.
Washington, ID. C., Sept. 22.-Thers
is no longer Mexican problem.
This was the word brought to admins
istration officials by Matthew G. Col
Inns of New York.
He gave it as the result of personal
observation of the manner in which the
Mexican people of all classes have ac-
cepted recognition by the United States
of the Oregon government and the
combined ratification by the two coun-
tries of the Warren-Payne arbitration
agreements.
Although recognition is less than q
month old. officials here were told
trade relations have wonderfully im-
proved while there is complete dis
appearance of the distrust and lack OF
confidence that was so apparent in the
past.
Collins. who is president of the In
terstate Oil Company and one OF the
leaders of the Independent oil group
which are anxious that Congress, when
it reconveneS, take steps TO compel
government supervision of the oil in
dustry, is also a very intimate friend
of President Obregon of the Mexican
republic.
He is here to give administration Of
ficials here a first-hand report of con-
ditions as they now exist in Mexico.
Incidentally he threw a new light
upon the Oregon ambitions.
0bregon Wants Square Deal
1.-THE President told me-" said Col
llins, that the wants of his family and
himself were small and that he had no
ambitions to amass a great fortune.
"'What 1 want Oregon said to
me, is that all Mexicans are afforded
the opportunity to work at living
wages and given the best character OK
schools for their children. All Mexi-
can children deserve an education and,
as President, 1 intend TO see oppor-
tunity to get it is afforded them
Collins declared that the unanimity
with which the United States aided
Japan in the recent disaster has elm
mated all suggestions of future war
between those two countries and said
the latest manifestations of good faith
between Washington and Mexico City
has had a similar effect on the rela-
tions between the two North American
republics.
This feeling also has <smoyed much
of the distrust between the United
States and Latin America, he ex-
planned. because there was feeling
there that Mexico was being unfairly
Disseminated against.
American capital has a great OPP
portunity in Mexico today" said Col
Inns.
mo other country affords such an
opportunity for hustlers of the true
American type as does Mexico.
Lots of our troubles in the past
were caused by the class Of Americans
who went there to grab everything in
sight and then hurried home with the
spoils.
with perfect agreement between
the two countries this class will be
missing.
Rivalry Has Developed.
.aThere already is rivalry between
American and European capital forS
preference in Mexico, but it is certain
that this country has the initial adj.
vantage and will maintain it.
Now if Americans will see that the
old time revolutionary type, which held
forth in the past just south OF the Rio
Grande. is refused money and muni-
tions when its members want to start
revolution, everything will be al
right.
incidentally this latter type has
almost entirely passed away since the
! Oregon administration came into
power. -.
THE fact that Mexico suffered hit
tie loss during the World War and
that its buying power is very great
means much to the United states. ~
THE losses from revolutionary
causes were confined to the zone just
below the American border and the
rest OF the country has been ready tor
a business boom for some time.
What 1 have asked admin. strstioa
officials to do is to. assist the Me3i-
cans in every possible manner 10 de-
velop their resources, because. with
European markets practically closed
to the United States through operation
of the economic situation, IL is neces-
sary that we open new fields for Amer
lean commerce.
Incidentally. IL we can get all the
facts concerning Mexico before the
public. both nations must soon forget
that the boundary is anything but an
imaginary line.
ave have done it with Canada. why
not with Mexico?"