Show THE MEXICAN QUESTION PP trick enright and P J mass the committee of the trade and labor assembly sent to mexico by that organization organisation to investigate the condition of the laboring classes of that country have returned to chicago and submitted their report the committee claimed that they carried out their mission in an unbiased and non partisan man ner and they stated the condition of the working classes just as they found them without reference to political questions among other things submitted in in the report we find the following organized labor is unknown here which is considered a great blessing but the country today that has the best system of trade organization and the greater num her ber of union men per capita of its population is the foremost in wealth progression and the happiness of its people the cry ie is raised that there are tire no poor in mexico but that is no indication of the absence of pov erty as our committee can fully testify without fear of contrado cont radic radl i c tion as the voice of the mendicant supplicating rings in our ears all through rough til the country cou in the cities of zacatecas Zacate cas and guanajuato with populations of and respectively we failed to get but ter and potatoes on tho the table of the best hotels on inquiry we wore more informed that if it we paid 1 a pound for butter it would be purchased and kept for our exclusive use your commission would woud caution american workmen against going to mexico without sufficient funds to bring them back or to have employment secured before going there or they will be obliged to subsist on cactus and the sap of the acquila plant while doing the country on asking an Anie american rican who was conducting a prosperous busi nass 88 in one of the cities which our commission visited why it was that the foreigners all seemed to bo be finking money no matter what business they engaged in lie with characteristic yankee frankness replied the laborer hero bero ie is different from front tho the laborer in the states libor ie is cheap and wo we lime hav no brains contend to with |