Trading with Mexico

Three fundamentals determine and will determine American participation in Mexican trade. Excursions, however wet, will not change those fundamentals. Enthusiasm, however sincere...

Every land upon this globe owes to nature that predetermination of its products and its needs which are the vital factors of its commerce and its industries. Even the nature of...

A bamboo hut with a clumsy thatch of grass, a hovel of sundried bricks, made, as the Israelites made them, of straw and clay, a shack of unfinished lumber or rotting railway tie...

The Mexican government to-day is bankrupt, and Mexican business is bankrupt. The most sanguine propagandists of the revolutionary governments can offer nothing better than promi...

The American after-dinner orator roars his boast of “two billions of American dollars in Mexico” and moans his claim of “a billion of damage” done to those pioneer American doll...

Ten years ago Mexico was one of the great, progressive nations of the world; to-day she is just “another Latin American Republic.” Then she showed literally the achievement and...

From the golden wheat fields of Kansas to the barren sands of Yucatan, from the loaf of bread on your table to the loot of Mexican revolutions--these seem mighty leaps of imagin...

When you cross the Mexican border at Laredo, oil enters your consciousness--and your clothes. It is everywhere, the thick, odorous _chapapote_ which furnishes the fuel for Mexic...

In all these devious ways Mexico has tried to kill the goose which lays her golden eggs. Not the least onerous of her efforts in this direction has been the seeking she has alwa...

The solution of the problems of Mexico’s commerce and business seems to rest in hands alien to Mexico. The destructions of the past ten years are bringing her steadily nearer to...