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Show OGDEN MAN IS INTERVIEWED ON MEXICO . Hl David Ross Macreesh, who formerly Hl lived at OtfJen, bas just reached Salt H Lake from El Paso, Tex. Mr. Mac- H ree.'h bas Jneu In clo;e tc-. ".' with j the Mexican situation on account of B his business associations In the Texas H city on the boundary Hue and bis rc- H port concerning it Is decidedly inter- 1 esting. When Interviewed laet night H he said: H "The raon important bit of Alexl- j can public opinion, put in one sen- H tenco, would be: If Mexico is to ro- H main an Independent cation, every M citizen must bo patriotic That is the H explanation of the remarkable and M one ralit say aetonlshln display of H good comraou souse bv numerous fol- H lowers of the defunct General Diaz, H who are now holding up me bandb of H President Francldcc L Mndero 1 "Madero'e bra7ery In starting the H revolution and his unsclfiGh efioits H to bring its evil to a close as soon H as possible, have challenged the nd- 1 miration of &eae men His sincerity. B honesty and Integrity have won their H kindly consideration, bu: above ev- B erythlng else, they arc impressed wilh HBh bis rulersbip. No nan could bavo H done more in trying to bring about JHV order tb&n has Madcro. fB "If Mexico had tho same opporlun- pB itles as Canada, a vote would show HB that our country is no more popular JBb with our neighbors on the south than BV It Ib with those on the north, in spite BBV of the diplomatic declarations made BBw during the past twenty-five years, the BV bulk of Mexico's population still be- BBV lleve that the United States would llko BBjj to annex Mexico. How can they help BBn thinking so when so many millions of BBn dollars of American gold are invested BBV there, and the stream of American im BBn migration into their country In peace- BBj ful times Is never-ending? They are BBV afraid of the other nations and want BBjl peace and order above everything BBw BBn "Anyone who has been across the BBV ,RIo Grande to engage a Mexican in BBV conversation will never doubt his pa- BBV ,trlotlsm. The revolutions which BBV spring up from time to time show not BBB ,only the disturbed state of the public BBB iTnind, but they also show that Mexico BBV ha3 among her poorest citizens tho BBB .sort of men who would be martyrs for BBV their country. BBV "At present affairs in Mexico are BBV in very bad way. Busineas is euf- BBV fering heavily. The tourist traffic has BBV ueen dead for eighteen mouths, Im- BB migration baa ceased and refugees BBB o daily arriving at El Paso from BB Mexico City, Chihuahua, Madera and mjl Pearson. The sights to be witnessed at the international bridge are often BB heartrending. Frequent disorderly BV outbreaks keep the federal soldiers mv lousy hurrying hero and there to quiet BB Incipient uprisings. Fortunately for BB llle natlqn, most of these have occur- Bwfl I rrtTia remote places, although th city BVJ of Juarez today is in an awful shapo BV and "a been so since laai April, BVB I !? the insurrectos took possession V 01 the border town. BBV "There has been enough disorder to BV j'Orce foreign Intervention for the pro- BVB lY?. ? of 1Ko and Property, had the V disturbance been confined to place BfJI J where i foreign money Is Invested. But mmj snch has not been tho case and this BB J' due to the dlscreUon of the people? mv the care of the government, and luc. BWH r"T,he Mexico of today Ib not the m Mexico of a decade ago, however, and BB I" ouid require a lot of disturbance BB I to yreck euch a rich country. The BB world must have gold, copper and"sll- BB Ter and the scores of other products I that tho country exports At present J many of the rlchost mines in the country are cloBed and not an ounce of ore is being mined in them. "National progress, dormant ac present, should not be pictured as an infant industry needing the diligent care of a parental government, but as a great Industry stunned. If nothing now unforeseen occurs, Mexico will bo on tho way to normal condition within with-in three months. Guerilla warfare will continue Indefinitely. It will take years to overcome all the results of the revolution, but there is now Tlgor and enthusiasm In the nation." ' no |