THE MEXICAN MUDDLE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 157, 3 July 1916, Page 11

THE MEXICAN MUDDLE.

j-OTTE YBAHS OF KEVOlrtrnON. pgESIDEST DIAZ'S RETIREMENT. US.FT ANARCHY BETTLNT). pOSSjBkE CONTRIBUTTS-O CAL-SES.

4t the presrat time, when war bet wen tht United States ai-d Mexico appear, Seviwile. it !• o' intrr(>rt t0 - et somP Ueu 86 to the eontnbutmjr cau«. to Se trouble from one who has born in tench "i^ l the P^ 1 ' ,111 : " r som<> y* 3 - 18 =t Mr D B. Ruseell. British Resident Sent at Cook Isiancfe lor tie last rouplo f teare beiug just now in Auckland. seen by a rcpnventative of tho «itar to ascertain come oi tho details nl past occurrences in the troubled reIt may be mentioned that Mt Lssell. '* Mk ' m old Ancklaud 1,0 - v .- ---—art to Mexico close on thirty years sjo, and. after Irving th.-Te for over of century, returned to hLtme o when the broke out. "I was very fortanato t* pet away by tho train I di d -" remarlced -Mr Russell, "for the one that left two hours later was stopped, the enginwr and 28 of the passciEjcre losing thoir liv<v. Now. 35 to the cause of the revolution. 1 may say at once that I consider the principal one was tsle downfaJl of Presiiient Uiaz. ■ffbom 1 looked apon as tht> preateet man ginco Napoleon. Ho mado Mexico, and vhen he left the axnrfcry there was no stron? man to succeed him. The caiisv of his downfall was that in his early dars he appointed all his awn Minister?, and they were obedient to him while be tras Yieoroos. bnt \vhen bo g-ot to the a tre oi SO years he "wtrs 'trnahie t-o carry out evervtiring as he biwd be on wont to do. therefore be beiran to lean upon those tfbo hitherto Imii nianaced nnder las directions. The moment be did thai they began to take advantage of their old'leader. The first thing, arid to my mind the reaJ C3&»e of the popular disEa&fartron that reeiilted in the revolution, •was the merannc of the Central. International and Nsti'mal railways into one concern.

The holding of these three railtcays totalled 400 million doQars. which tie Government agreed to carry. It was a ireat mistake, because prior to thai agreeent the Ckraennnent of Mexico anunallT received sixty milrions of dolte irom &ose companies, b3<i no respoaH&ility, and invested no capital in the concerns. The State had also other valnsbte privileges in tbe shspe of having goods carried free. When the Government took over the thre<> rai> cays, it agreed to pay 400 million dollars, bnt both thai; sum or the interest are still owing really to' KritUh and {he United States peor>}e. Thai- constitutes a bond of interest for the British and American nations as to what happens to Merico. I may mention thai toe IDnisier got 11 million doDars ont d the raHiay deal, and tbe people EH-ioßy blamed President Diaz, sis. I happen to know. was 60 ill in bed at the time that he we matble to see anybody. Diaz had to go, and his last words were that his heart bfed to iea-ve tbe people he had sade from nothing , to a nation. He we tbe first president who tipon leaving oSes left anything in the Treasury. Wlea he went oat of office, there was doßaiE in tbe Treasury. Hk fmsl-Tsords -were: "X'nfortenateJy for MesKo, I am leading nothing but •Mrdrj." These words have been iaSy Terifiei H3= sarceesor, Madea-o. after agiteen namths. follo»?d by Eneta. then came Carxanza and Villa, and two are- the <me3 at wzrr EOW.

THE USTEED STATES ASD lIEXTCO. •Asked his opinion regarding the task "wkrtaken by the United States in Mtenptmg to pacitv Jleoco. Jlr. RaaMl said: "I am it will be a dii- ™* joo» as the Mexicans are all figiriaaa. Of course the United States Era* van i» & c eDI L as it has the nurn?as,. tbe lanney, and a narry, Wiale the I kcov.- have anj- amonnt of f™% x "Kerj- much dwtbt'if they wflj of nmßitkml On hand the United States, wfll m a position to torn out ail the ssns&Ds it TBurtg jfc aKn troaps of last bated. t«Sr Me. Kcssen here hrtexpolated, *Wt 83 years hot appeax anjtiiog hfce wieTl went E EJcb ,i Htt o 3 e<Ora n2a)

MEXICANS GOOi> HGITERS of a c Peons, Mr. Eussdl Ihey are the Ascendent* of Uh- £** iadsana ' «ntt ate good fieliters. nrmezaJ resources, iru-lurlin-horde of rebels, but th e T(!w,on m MeXiC ° WOUW ; - d "- ---« a strong that would 7 1 - i« Proof ™*-fter freed thenwdw-s from Spain, fe^L^ 4 St:ites h *= take, un a ™ Moaco, and if the othrr Soi th add another 16,000.0n0/which mi-ht goes to TOr ,it must *in in