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Title: The National geographic magazine
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: National Geographic Society (U.S.)
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: Washington : National Geographic Society
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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or through the newspapersof injustice on the part of the courts orauthorities, but when investigated thecomplaint is generally found to origi-nate either in a want of knowledge ofthe system of jurisprudence in force inthat country (the civil law) or from anundue bumptiousness on the part of theAmerican. Our citizens who volun-tarily go to Mexico should bear in mindthat they are in a community of a dif-ferent race, language, religion, customs,and system of judicial procedure fromours, and if they adapt themselves tothese changes they are quite unlikelyto encounter embarrassment or trouble.Our countrymen, our capital and enter-prise, are welcomed by the governmentand the people, and there is a wide fieldfor the exercise of our surplus capitaland energy. Our political relations with the neigh-boring republic were never more cordialthan they are today, and there is everyprospect that the two nations will con-tinue to enjoy together the blessings ofpeace, prosperity,- and independence. o o
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COMMERCE OF MEXICO AND THE UNITED STATES By Hon. O. P. Austin,Chief of Bureau of Statistics, Treasury Department COMMERCE between the UnitedStates and Mexico has madevery rapid gains since the estab-lishment of rail communications be-tween the two countries. Prior to thattime European countries.enjoyed a largeshare of the import trade of Mexico,the exports from France and the UnitedKingdom ranging from five to ten mill-ion dollars per annum each, and thosefrom Spain averaging about one milliondollars annually, and those of German)less than a million dollars. With theconstruction of railways giving closecommunication between Mexico and theUnited States, shipments from theUnited States into Mexico rapidly in-creased and quickly outgrew those fromEuropean countries. In 1890 exports from the UnitedStates to Mexico were a little abovethirteen million dollars, those from theUnited Kingdom and France each aboutten millions, Germany three and a halfmillions, and Spain nearly two millions.As t

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