The Times of Thursday publishes the second of two informing
articles on Meiico. The writer pays a remark- able tribute to the President, General Porfirio Diaz. Within twenty-three years the President has turned Mexico into an orderly and highly prosperous State which has neither external nor internal troubles. Of course, no man could have produced this result if he had not been met half-way by a people who, after the long period of anarchy and internal dissensions, realised the advantages of law and order, and applied themselves with surprising enthusiasm
to achieve them. It has also been the merit of the people that they recognised the worth of General Diaz, and have twice altered the law, so that he has been able to stay uninterruptedly in office for twenty-three years. The privileges of the military and priestly classes, who were placed above the law, 'Stye been abolished, and equality is established. The writer describes the ,Mexicen of to-day as thoroughly enlightened and honest in commerce. Railways have been systematically built. The chief warning he has to offer is that British capitalists are losing many opportunities in Mexico, vvhere American money is almost acquiring a monopoly. British commercial travellers too, he says, are often badly equipped for their business.
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