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I'otnes to us through the nmols
xvrh tin- publisher's compliments
.j hook written upon Mexico by 'be
Manager ot the Wall Stieet Jour
nal and the Boston New? Bureau:
Mr Barron. It is entitled The
Mexican Problem
As a financial authority Vr. Bar
ron is recognized as one of the
foremost in the country. And na
turally his economic vi< vs are
those we might expect in a man
who is a "financial authority".
Briefly his conception of the Mex
ican problem is this: There i s no
security in Moxho for investments:
no courts, no legislatures, no Sta
bility «t government, no law and
order lienee capital is hampered
in opening ui> the enormous wealth
of the country: hence the peons or
denied opportunity of laboring *or
capital: hern* poverty, destitution,
disorder and general social <ha >s
results.
It is not a land question. It is
not a liberty question. It is jus'
a <1 ticsti in whether or not the in
vest or will be allowed to develop
his investments. giving to labor
Ironi Capital's employment of la
bor an opportunity to work, to
fecal, clothe ar.d shelter Itself, to
mis** its family and to provide such
•education technical or otherwise a?
is suited to it.
Because the government in Mcx
jeo is to ail intents and purposes
unsettled or actually non-existing,
because th > 1'nitcd States lias main
tained its polii y of non-interference,
because the I'nited Stares refused
to realize Us responsibility for the
order anti law that must tie main
tained if the nation is to progress,
then conditions are as they are and
bullets iindeed of gold are cur
rency
We have no doubt in the world
that f the nations of the world so
so determined and the y maintained
a powerful government in Mexico,
Viw and order would most certainly
prevail. We have no doubt at all that
those tremendous riches that Bar
ron talks about would be thereupon
opened up and t:;t t * t e.tous
dumber of pe-ipl. V > ::*i a-: ■ : -ally
work anti a very small portion ot
the population have steady accumu
lation of wealth Industries would
-pring up overnight. Agriculture
win Id make the deseit blossom as
the rose, great public works could
prevail generally and money would
be as safe in its investments as i»
is possible to ^onreive.
But would that have solved the
Mexican question? There's the
rub. _ _
We just turn our eyes to Europe
where for the past three years hat
he. i) going on a little war has r.ia<!-’
I,.yc trouble in Mexico be as a storm
• n xt teacup to a gale on the living
«a't In those count!ies economic,
linam ial ami social sanity such as
Wall: Ktrce* had desired for Mexico
nad for long prevailed. Yet it ha*
«.'•.•( kened the cities with desolation
.,nci strewn the fields with dead and
. ;hi lining.
Surely e’en it. Europe the swta
proiilems which are so easily solved
by th< Barrons for Mexico are stil!
Ti«ti. i .problem
IvIor'ectYeT tike peaceful times foi
rtxtmple Here is Hr.’at Britain
nttnon if there ever was on’ of law
an'd-ordor-ompire-builders Her sltih
nolcths are all shibboleths of demo
t racy. H r economic tlieorirs : rc
founded upon the stability ol thing:
for him who hath.
British capital seeks a tur fieli
for its investments. It demand
os tin prime consideration law ant
order. And ils success in develop
ment the world over is exceeded b
no nation and equalled by few na
lions which have been gr''ut in ni
lory.
\ great country England, Mi
Barron. But get into some of then
► ilks that are dark from factor
smoke, giant < hintneys by the hund
red belching clouds of soot, black
as the smoke of Tophet. Stand
round the gin shops and the idle
corners and set what manner of
men you meet. Not wholly ill
favored men. but men withdrawn
from the realm of health, hollow
chested, tubercular, pauperized by
wealth producing industry. They
had a name for them: a name that
was supposed to show their utter
inutility. They were t lie strapp
ings of modern industry. Stand
one up before a doctor who will
stethoscope him. pound him. weigh
Hi in lie will pass no medical
standard. That cough that seizes
hint is the hall mark of industry's
victim. Commercialism. Mr. Bar
ron—that's all. Common ialism
adequately nroleoted by law and
by order. Mr. Barron.
Go down into tell abysses of I he
cities. There is law and order and
you need nol be afraid. Go down
into the black ai.d unsavory appear
ing tenements, secure rent pro
duters under law and order—turn
by the workhouses and witness
more and more victims. In God's
world was there ever such an ab
ject sight—in God’s world were
men ever so hopeless and dejected.
Vet they are law-abiding. God
fearing outwardly at any rate. They
ar-- orderly persons, savage it may
iie within, outwardly conforming to
; i lit* rules ot the cage.
Go to any European country —
whore is complete security for ea
i pital and where capital has taken
i advantage of that security go In
the mining section of France. Bel
gium. Germany. Austria and tin
same woful sights are to be witness
ed Nay go to tHo iron centers in
America .in Cleveland. around
Pittsburgh and in a dozen other
sections and the same identical con
ditions will meet the eye
Has Mr. Barron, we wonder ev"i
read the report of the Industrial
Relations Commission? Tlierohi lit
will unit exactly what commercial
ism lias been attd is still doing, li
has been doing it under perfect on
lorccnieiit of the law and idea
order. Government was certainly
a real entity: hut "o was capitalism
Turn we to M“xico. There it
great wealth, wealth such as one
hardly realizes! The mineral oi
alone reaches in fabled billions
The exploitation of this rich prizt
! would give work to many am
wealth to everyone owning it. It it
there, waiting the magic touch ol
confident capital, if governmen
assure confi
anywhere will on’y
dence to capital.
All of which is true. But in Mex
ico today while you meet many fa
mishing peons, famishing men and
women, it is because there is no
such thing as plenty Before the
war in Europe the majority m
every nation without exception were
underfed in a land of plenty. Eefore
die war in Aaieri a a large portion
o' tin population suffered from in
sufficient nutrition in a land ol
plenty. Before the revolt against
Diaz the <pior. was a hunted slave.
There was security of tenure to
investments; hut there was also the
lisenfranch’se nent of the vlexicans
and the e-ftablshment of mighty
concessions.
White the hooligans ar d hood
tbe vh'tims of commerct
•apitalism. accented theit
degeneracy in European
the Mexican revolted.
But between the cigarrotte smok
ing aneniil degenerate of the slum,
accepting his position as inevitable
and vicious as inevitable, and that
of the insurrecto peon, fighting any
how th” condtion that would keep
him a slave-—we all can see how
lulus and
ism. and
status ot
countries.
we
the civilized man could nos*. were
he free to choose.
The ideal of the Barrows is a
working and producing class, and
an owning and enjoying class. The
welfare of the former, he considers,
is wrapped up in the welfare of the
latter. Capitalists give big open
ings for laho1' and labor as long as:
it can work avails of it thriftily
One class r.u'ges around the world
in auto.n in steam yachts, in spe
cial trains, lives in :mportal man
sions ar.d apen magnificent estates.
For them are Iho results of the
inspiratic n of artist, of poet, of dra
ma,ist. of sculptor The workers
are to be praised for their frugal
\ industry, for tluir patient loyalty,
for their docility The courts, rich
in learned precedents adjudicati
| securely ns to property rights: a
well established police preserves
i order; a standing army is ready to
! enforce the laws of the legislatures
I and the decisions of the courts
Two per cent own 9ft per cent of
the national wealth and declare all
i. well. A small per rent have all
the national opportunities for hap
piness and pleasure and know that
; all is well. The masses are duly
j content to toil and reproduce more
i toilers so that those who toil not
j nor spin may reap the rich rewards
that inevitably spring from owner
ship ot those things necessary to
the woil being of society, to the
very existence ol human kind, and
tie' entile force.; of society are di
rected towards the security of that
ownership in perpetuo.
These are the conclusions that
i we wrest from a perusal of Mr.
Barron's interesting book. Might is
essential to maintenance of right.
-:-—:-•—
and right gets its official imprima
tur from Might.
That is the doctrine cf capital- j
ism. It is the very doctrine that j
has plunged the whole worfd into,
blood and flames. It is the doc- I
trine that looted territory and !
raped the national integrity of peo |
pies of Europe. It is the very doc- j
note of the robber baron's motto I
| who wrote above his castle With}
my Might I hold my Right''. It j
j is the challenge flung widely to him
who has not. to question if he dare. J
lit is the challenge that is invari-ji
[ably responded to sooner or later,
Many men ruling Germany, rul- I
: ing Great Britain, ruling France,
ruling Austria, ruling Russia, held
precisely the same arrogant, doc
trine, and disbursed it challengingly
to the world. And the answer Is
a world in arms: it always wifi be
the answer—-and a world trembling ■
in tlie shock of battle—a world
| shuddering in the. horror and the j
grief of an irreparable loss.
I Because beneath our civilization,
make no mistake, is this iron doc
trine held, the remnant of the days
of a savage world, red in tooth and
j daw. that civilization has been a:
sham, a sham in its ethical prin
ciples, in its religions beliefs, in af
fected concern for a Golden Rule
that was merely a base metal gilded
to suit the esthetic tempers of the
philosophic idiots who lent the
powers of their intellect to the
bolstering up of a system false and
hypocritical.
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NOTICK OK FORFEITURE.
To ,J. J. Wachenheimer, your heirs.ex
ecutors. assigns, successors or per
onal representatives:
■ You are hereby notified that the
undersigned has expended in labor
and improvements the sum of one
hundred dollars each year for the
years of 1912. 1913, 1914, 1915
and 191S on the January Associa
tion, a placer mining claim, situat
ed upon Cripple river and more
fully recorded at page 370 in Vol.
j 190 in the Records ot the Cape
| Nome Mining District, in the Second
Division, Territory of Alaska.
The above amount has been ex
I pended under the provisions of the
| laws concerning annual labor upon
I mining claims being the amount re
i quired to hold said claim.
And your are further notified
j that if within ninety days after the
j last publication of this notice you
fail to contribute your proportion of
! said expenditure your interest in
said claim will become the property
of the undersigned your co-owner
under section 2324 Revised Statutes
of the United States.
WILLIAM SHEEHAN,
Co-Owner.
Dale of first publ.. July 9, 1917.
Date of last publ., Oct. 8, 1917. . .
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