Show A 1 FORM OGDEN N CITIZEN CITIZENS f S S Hl 4 TELLS WHY MEXICO PROSPERS I S Special Ogden Oge Sept 23 Colonel William ilam N Fife Fie an old Ogden Olde pioneer Is here to I spend the te winter wih with relatives and i friends lends f Mr r Fifes Fi es present t home hO me is in inthe inte Inthe the te southeastern part of ot Arizona Arzona though he was wa a prominent and influential citizen of Ogden twenty years ago being city marshal for two terms term and owner of much property In this i city Mr Fife has had peculiar advantages V for studying the people customs and Institutions of Mexico His ranch is but a L short distance from the border I i I and some of his sons sans son live lve in that re republic republic I public He talks talk most interestingly of Mexico and her people and his re remarks i marks mark have an immediate bearing on the industrial and ad political po situation In 1 this country countr Mr Fife FIe said saidI I went ent to Mexico first frt about twenty j years ago ag next about thirteen years ear I Iago ago and again agin within the last year I J tell tel you Mexico Is advancing as a no noether I other ether country countr has ha before advanced Its It I S growth is steady uniform substantial It I is built buit on the prosperity of f all l Its Is people the te lowest as a well wel as the high highest highest est Twenty years yea ago the people im impressed impressed i pressed me as a and al almost almost almost most savages Today Toda they are aie vastly S Improved in material conditions ns and well wel educated Their soldiers have hae de developed within t twenty v enty years year from Ill 1 1 clad and undisciplined V wretches retches to well wel i dressed well wel paid and disciplined troops All l the common people have money silver money and therein in 1 my m judgment and in the general gendral gen rl opts ion of scores of and in Mexicans with whom I have talked lies les one great cause of success It I Is the avowed policy p lc of ot Diaz and an d his cabinet to keep the coun financial system on a p silver sUver basis bais As A a consequence of course a Mexican dollar dolar is worth less than an American half dollar dolar but as a a further conse consequence consequence quence all al her people have money and have hae work Her silver siver mines are run running rn ning sing and railroads are are being built bui ev everywhere everywhere being er here The use ue u of silver siver money ev when the gold standard Is In use in inthe i Inthe the countries all aU about It 1 encourages the Mexicans to trade at home Wen When his dollar is i shorn shor of ot half hal Its is value if he buys a wagon wagn say SLY in America America he will wU more mor likely buy bu the te home borne manu manufactured mau wagon wagn It I is i the te plan pla of the Mexican MeIc statesmen to make their coun country country try to manufacture ev et everything that they use which can be made there This use of silver sUver Is just the te thing ting for bringing about this de desfred result financial system tem tern is a constant and emphatic denial that free fre coinage floods foods the mints mint of ofa a country with wih the white metal to an extent other than beneficial to the country c oter tan te tec Mr lr Fife said sid further furter in speaking sp of or the colonists in Sonora and Chihuahua that they the are ar quite prosperous Mex Mexico lex ico leo is very kind to colonists and offers ofer more inducements than any ny country countr I know kow of They allow alow a prospective set setter settler ter to bring many dutiable goods in free The colonists there are much bet better better ter off of as a a rule than tha In Arizona Arzona Colonel Fife has seen some some stirring times since he left lef here twenty years ago In Arizona the te Apaches plus plundered plundered dered dared him and killed two former forer Unit United United ed cd States sergeants sergeant whom he had ha em plo ed to assist in guarding garding his prop property property property erty At this time his son John D Fife Fie now with wih the Wester Western Moline Plow company In Salt Sal Lake made a desperate fight and ad escape that tat thrilled the nation naton at the time The young man escaped to cover and ad alone fought the savages for hours hour being wounded five times Ures killing three thre of the redskins and and wounding three thre more mor till ti they thought he was a dozen men and allowed hint him to escape Another nother son of the te gentle gentleman gente genteman gentleman man went to Mexico from Arizona Arzona and ad has ha succeeded splendidly owning one of the finest fest ranches in the te republic and with a a revenue of not ot less than ta per year ear American money from fm his stock business Colonel Fife is particularly remembered remembered erd in Weber county as a the original architect of the Weber Weber stake taberna tabernacle tabera cle ce His His son the late lateW TV W N Fife Fie jr of Ogden was the architect who super supervised supervise supervised vise remodeling the structure |