Evening star., 1925-06-14
PATIENCE OF i. S. WORN
BY MEXICO'S FLOUTING
American Interests Must Be Safeguarded
by Gales Regime-ProPerty Rights
Are Being Ignored.

one American property without COM
pensa ton on the basis of the just
value at the time of appropriation.
The excess land taken is to be paid
for in cash, and the United States
commissioners agree on behalf of
American claimants to accept MeXi-
can bonds for allotments of a maxi
mum area of 1000 acres.
American Lands Seized.
Although the Mexican government
has indicated a desire to apply the
agrarian laws equitably, American
owned lands have been seized by So
called agrarians, and occupied with
out any legal proceedings whatsoever
Such disregard for the laws became
so fragrant that the Mexican Supreme
Court recently presented a memorial
to President Gales in protest The
court called attention to the fact that
its decisions interpreting agrarian
laws are ruthlessly ignored practi-
cally throughout the country by local
authorities, as we'll as private indi-
viduals.
The United States has made nu-
merous representations to Mexico
about the trespassers who are squat
ting on American property. In GER
tain cases Washington has requested
oust these land robbers with the aid
of federal troops. and guard against
further depredations by stationing
troops near the scene of disturbances
1t Is the failure of the Gales regime
to throw proper protection around
American land that is giving the
Coolidge administration serious con-
Germ. The situation is aggravated
by the fact that even authorized ap-
r-fr -iDf t0v, hot, a. ,tsI
compensation in any known case.
Service on Debt Suspended.
1t was in June. 1922, that the inter
national bankers consortium at New
York, representing American, Bel
gian, British, Dutch, French and
Swiss capital, after long negotiations,
executed an agreement looking to re-
adjustment of MeXicos external obli-
cations and certain internal obliga-
tions. This agreement provides that
fund with a guaranteed minimum
increasing annually, shall be set aside
in cash by Mexico for each of five
years ending with 1927. At that date
full payment in cash of the service
on all securities covered by the agree
ment is to be resumed. The quota for
1928 was duly deposited, but on June
80. 1924, the Mexican government
temporarily suspended the service on
the debt. Financial conditions caused
by the De la Huerta rebellion were as
signed as the reason.
Chief Dissatisfaction.
The chief dissatisfaction of Wash
ington with the course of events in
Mexico is the governments failure
or incapacity to come strongly to
grips with the lawless activities OF
the more radical elements of the
Mexican population.
In the rural regions it is the agra
rians who are defying international
rights. In the towns and cities the
extreme labor elements are revealing
a determination to take the law into
their own hands.
The Gales government appears to
have no settled labor policy, and ex-
tremists among the working classes
are correSpondingly arrogant. Not
long ago the British manager of a
British-owned street railway com.
pany was threatened with expulsion
for refusing to recognize a syndicate
of striking workmen. The govern
ment seems to be encouraging the
formation of a national union of
workmen. Plain dangers to Ameri
can capital in Mexican industrial en-
terprises would be threatened If the
government and labor radicalism
were to form a working alliance.
Copyright, 1925.)