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Show Silver miners of Mexico Alarmed. Cm of Mexico, January 13. A memorial on the silver question has been addressed to j the President of the Republic by the National Na-tional Chamber of Commerce. The memorial memo-rial states that while the causes of the depression de-pression of silver are complicated and difficult diffi-cult to understand, the danger is fully comprehended, and if the depression continues con-tinues it must unavoidably ruin the mining interests of Mexico and produce a widespread wide-spread commercial crisis and most sinister consequences. More than three-fourths of all the merchandise that Mexico imports from Europe and the United States has to be paid for in remittances of Mexican dollars because the agricultural resources of the country are not sufficiently developed to permit per-mit of the exportation of products on a large scale. The memorial calls attention to the existence, in various States of the Re public, of taxes on the circulation and exportation ex-portation of money. The memorial suggests sug-gests as remedies to diminish the danger of the crisis, the abolition of the taxes on the exportation of native goods that prompt measures be taken to prevent the State Governments Gov-ernments from taxing production, the working work-ing and .the exportation of the agricultural and mineral products; that all hardens on exports be removed ; that Mexico join in the deliberations of the next monetary conference confer-ence of nations, and finally that direct steam navigation be established between the Pacific ports of Mexico and those of Asia. |