MEXICAN OUTLOOK.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 15 May 1922, Page 3

MEXICAN OUTLOOK.

TRUTH ABOUT REVOLUTIONS.

SAN FRANCISCO, M4rch 31. Much iias been Heard about the exploitation of Mexico by Americans for tne country's undoubted richness in minerals, oil Sj and other possessions, but a new light has been sned on tn» situation by the return to California, °f /Y r- ,A- L. Vander Naillen, former - Oakland engineer and now vice president of a mining company which controls 22,130 square miles of Mexican placer claims.

lulled with optimistic predictions tor American opportunities in th«* southern republic,' Mr. Naillen, whea interviewed in San Francisco, saidi JNogales and border towns on American soil are responsible for^many of the so-called revolutionary scares X have been in intimate touch with, those*-* people. I have slept in their rooms and eaten their food. I speak their language and I know, them as only * person can who has lived there for years. I find them ready for & neworder of things. "The towns on American soil are making a fortune out of the presence* « American soldiers. Every tun* [things quieten down and there seems to be a chance of the removal of troops, money Hows across the border, a bunch or peons (labourers) start a series of take raids, and the wires to Washingi te?JsL urn with so-called border trouhle. I Ihe Mexican people under Obregon | are returning to prosperity, and they I tnow it. A resolution is the last thine*' they want. The peonage system halt been abolished and production is increasing There are two things to> winch the Mexican objects—land grata.and mine development. The Indiaa and Mexican settlers work the land 'they are able to cultivate. They can--not understand the land being given | away or leased under Government ' f Fmt- ,/- s long as foreigners do not ' tT7 to them off their soil they will remain peaceful.'' Mr. Vander Naillen declared that enmity against Americans is dying out, ; owing to the fact that American busi-" 1 thl S m ie" &l 6 beginning to recognise the value of Mexico as a commercial - asset, and are applying, modern inethlock m its development. !-i Ji 7 Ame/ i.eail -that goes into Mexicoand plays fair with the people will ™*lye courteous treatment/ he said. Ihe bandit talk is mostly nonsense, mere are roving bands of course, but"' iiere m the United States we ourselves ' have a few pay-roll hold-ups despite, ou*' so-called, modern understandings.'l - . f lr- \- A- Fletcher, representing the * international shipping concern of WJ - K. Crrace and Co., of New York and - Mn. Francisco, who has been making an investigation of trade conditions itt xuexico, is another who has reported > favourably on the southern republicbeing particularly optimistic over-the^ business outlook. Mr. Fletcher recent- *. ly visited China, India, and other - | toreign countries as a trade expert, * and he says that France and England " are slow to realise the load which Ger- " many is obtaining over them In foreign markets. . °