Evening star., 1925-02-22
YOUTH HOLDING SWAY IN MEXICO.
TELLEZ SEES BRILLIANT FUTURE
EnuOy Says Nations Ills
Haze Been Struggles of
Young against Old.
Property Being Split Up
among Masses Viii Be
Aid to Country.
BY THOMAS n. HENRY.

| THE sprouts push up the dry
| leaves"
Senior Don Manuel C. Teller, Mex
| ico's Ambassador to Washington, is
! somewhat of philosopher. and he
| may be somewhat more OF a poet. In
| the above whimsical epigram he tried
| TO summarize the story Of his coun-
| try's recent stormy past and his con-
| fident vision Of her future.
! For this young veteran of diplo-
macy believes that Mexico's sun has
| risen, that youth is in the saddle, and
| that there can be no turning back.
Out OF the tangle of revolution and
counter-revolution, Senior Teller picks
| one clear motive that explains all
the struggle of youth against age.
Young Against Old.
THE struggles of Mexico have not
been class wars. family wars or sec
| tional wars, he says. "All these
things may have entered into them
as side issues. But the main fact,
always present, was that the young,
with the ideals and energy OF the
young, were arrayed against the old.
And victory for the young was GER
tain"
Senior Teller is 8 representative
type of the new order. His career
has been diplomacy. For 20 years he
has served in various capitals. But
ne Is OF the democratic salesman
order of diplomacy. Previously he
served five years in Washington as
secretary Of the embassy. Now he
returns in full charge of the great
mansion at the crest of Sixteenth
street. He brings with him perhaps
the most precious attribute of diplo-
macy-a lively sense of healthy in
ternational comradeship in progress.
Country TO he stimulated.
THE future of Mexico, both in her
domestic affairs and in her relations
with the United States" says the new
Ambassador, rests upon very broad
foundations indeed. That it cannot be
! judged by the past stands to reason.
Before the new order, what was
Mexico? Practically one great field
split into a dozen sections or more.
These were in the hands of a few
families. The result is well known
waste of capital. waste of lands. Now
| this great field is being split rapidly
into small holdings. What a man
produces will be his own. He will
struggle 10 produce more. The strug
gle will call constantly for more ma
Chinery and more material which, in
turn, Will stimulate both Mexican
and foreign markets.
cerned with the very practical aspect
of the questionable increase of pro-
duction, the wider investment of
capital and. as a direct result, the
increase of taxable wealth. But there
lis another side of probably far greater
Importance. This is the moral effect
upon q man upon becoming a free
holder, OF developing ambition and
initiative which were difficult to at
Il
Able to Present Cause.
Statistics, as we'll as philosophy and
econpmics, are on the tip OF the new
Ambassadors tongue. He lacks no
Information which may serve to
sell the next Mexico.
DO you know" he asks, that two
great new oil wells have been
brought in during the last two
months. one OF them producing $4,000
barrels a day?"
do you know that Mexico is the
greatest silver-producing country in
the world"
DO you know that the worlds
greatest steel mill, outside of Pitts
burgh, is located at Monterrey"
For some time to come, he pre-
diets, oil production, agriculture and
mining, will remain the nations chief
sources of wealth. Every thing else
must walt upon greater population
with sufficient earning power to justi-
fy a great native industry. This
population can be obtained, Senior
Teller thinks through colonization by
experienced farmers with a little
capital.
Mexico Wants Farmers.
Mexico" he says, wants farmers
For labor there is no call. Foreign
workers cannot live in competition
with our own labor. The call for
labor can come only after the founda
tions have been established very
solidly on diversified agriculture.
Mexico has no particular predic-
tions or promises to hold out to the
world-only this:
THAT youth cannot be defeated.
With wealth IN the soil and rocks,
youth will get them out.
Mexico's most promising industrial
outlook for the irnn1 ediate present