Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-03-14

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! Chandler RIO %as been . student o.
-ue1tcan Affairs for more thdn eJ years.
pn6fic IN nee ISht. at in, 1'I p@rtr"
tdrty 0ppo'faac. ia rfeu ~ tie present
| international coRfr0retsD.
On May -. 1924. the United States
formally renowned its title as the
worlds melting pot.
On that date was passed the new
immigration Act which now bars from
this country three out of every four
of the aliens once welcomed here.
From a maximum of nearly 800, 900
foreigners admitted in II single year,
the new law has cut our alien intluex
to less than 100000
On December 81. 1929. the Republic
of Mexico laid the foundation for it's
succession to this immigration title,
with all its pcrquisites, which are
many. and all its disadvantages, which
are not Il few.
On that date and shortly thereafter
were promulgated MeXico's new land
and oil laws which. in effect. make
MeXicans of AL persons of whatever
nationality who would possess any
part of the immense natural resources
of that country.
No Collision.
There was no collision. as the
lawyers say, between these enact
ments. There is no relation between
them and no similarity, save in the
emphasis ana earneStneSS with which
each is denounced by those aliens
whom at present they respectively
and chiefly affect.
Now regarded as important chiefly
by reason OF immediate effects, neither
law appears of itself of particularly
epochal significance. Each was en-.
acted primarily to deal with present
condition. From the minds OF those
who brought them forth. probably the
thing farthest removed was any intent
TO turn in a new direction the history
OF this hemisphere. 1t is scarcely
likely that they had in mind the Gre
alton OF a new nation nor that they
expected another world power TO grow
from these Legislative acorns.
And yet there are those, not given
to fanciful theories, who believe that
the ultimate effect of these moot ar
ticles of international legislation viii.
be to make of Mexico a new United
States i'll power and influence. in
wealth and realized resources. in com
merce and industry. in patriotism and
Further. they believe that to do so
will require but a fraction of the time
occupied by the United States in ar
irving at its present state Of develop
ment
This representation is not the
imaginative hSment of armchair
dreamers. Its proponents are. for the
most part. men who have made large
fortunes mainly through the ability
TO see farther than their fellows and
who are prepared to risk considerable
upon the correctness OF
their provision in this instance.
Opportunity Thrown Open.
Their premise is simple. They point
TO the fact that the United States has
just put up the bars to q million
year of the kind Of people out of whom
for 800 years this country has been
building its social and economic Struc-
ture and that, simultaneously. even
greater opportunities than ours are
being thrown open to these rejected
pilgrims a few miles to the south
only at the price of Mexican citizen.
ship.
AS they see il. the answer is as
simple as that OF two and two. From
the United States the tide OF Old
World immigration is already turning
10 Mexico. And for the first time in
it's history, Mexico is in position to
receive its influx, to assimilate it and
TO profit by its coming.
immigration has never been one of
Mexico's primary problems. In pre-.
evolutionary days the country was in
he hands of an aristocracy which
effectual control of it's
and. its wealth and it's resources
There was scant opportunity for the
alien newcomer with no capital save
ais hands. y
In the 10 years following the over.
,hrow of the Diaz regime Mexico went
rom one revolution to another. Dur
ng that period the principal concern
Of such aliens as We're involved was