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18 It is a popular misconception in the United States that the people of Mexico have been, are, or are about to be exploited in the interest of the Standard Oil refineries, the Guggenheim smelters, or the Hearst ranches. Nothing could be further from the facts as related to the present situation, although both in Texas and Mexico, Standard Oil interests attempted years ago to arrest the oil development.

The wealth of the world is planetary wealth until it is lifted by human discovery, human forces, and human hands into human uses. The agricultural wealth of the world giving food to man is from the sun through the soil by labor. The mineral and oil wealth of the world is by human discovery, engineering, machinery, finance, and complex forms of human labor. Almost universally have the nations of the earth recognized right by discovery in underground wealth, and thus invited its discovery and development.

Under the administration of President Diaz Mexico was opened to the outside world, which was invited to pour in its talent, money, and skill to lift to the surface the undeveloped resources of the country, teach the unskilled labor of the land, and put Mexico, its people and its resources,