A BIG CONTRACT.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11, 4 May 1914, Page 4

A BIG CONTRACT.

Mr D. B. Russell, who is now in ! Auckland, claims to know a good deal about Mexico, and after thirty years residence in that turbulent country he certainly should. Interviewed the other day he said; -! I am perfectly certain that America has an infinitely bigger contract ahead of her than ever Great Britain had with the Boers. The Boers are not in it with the Mexicans, either as sharpshooters or fighters. They have been fighting for over 300 years, and the only period of absolute peace in the whole of that time was during the thirty years that Porfirio Diaz administered the country. I (tout; think things will ever be settled in Mexico while Huerta remains at the head of affairs. He is a killer, but nd statesman. The only man to take hold of Mexico is Feliz Diaz. He has youth and all the ability of his uncle Porfirio. The election of the young Diaz, who is now about 45 years’ of ago, into power, would bring back to Mexico all those prominent* families who have left the country in the last two years, having first carefully shipped their wealth to Europe. The acquisition by the United States of the northern provinces—-an enormous but essential undertaking, and the election of Feliz Diaz, who with the financial support of America and England would soon wipe out Huerta, \ ilia, and the rest of the ruffianly brand, are to my mind the answer to the present Mexican puzzle.”