Show THE Altu California sagely remarks that Mexico returns our lead on the lead question ques-tion She has discovered that if her galena ga-lena silver ores cant go to tho smelter the smelter must come to them and the outlay in their reduction must be made on the Mexican side of the line It means siaipy the transfer of an industry from our own soil to the soil of Mexico Thus endeth the first lesson in commercial exchanges and international trade as a prelude to the PanAmerican Commercial Congress If we have equal luck in all the other countries coun-tries concerned in South America we will close our brief and brilliant career as the Father Jonathan of tho Americas by parting part-ing with what little trade we now have with our isthmian and continental neighbors neigh-bors > on the south tis some consolation to know in the midst of all this that there are but 1348 days more of the present administration 1 ad-ministration yet how long they will seem to be I |