The plan which I hold as the solution of the economic and political chaos of Mexico would comprise a shifting of the center of control from politics to economics, where the motive force, at least, has ever rested. I would no longer tolerate the application of political remedies for economic ills, but would go so far as to suggest an economic remedy for both economic and political afflictions. Apparently this is what our government plans, and what Mexico’s government will not bring herself to accept. Years of observation of the Mexican problem has led to the conviction that the international difficulties of Mexico are between the Mexican politicians and the American government--their interests decidedly conflict. But there is no division of interest between Mexican business men and American business men; the former are just as disturbed over the confiscatory policies of the Constitution of 1917 as are the latter. So recently as April 7, 1921, a petition was sent to President Obregon by a group of landowners in the Mexican state of Jalisco, protesting against the enforcement of the rulings of the “National Agrarian Commission” which confiscated their properties in the name of the “social revolution” under the same Article 27 which attacks foreign property rights. Its words are worth recording as an indication that it is not alone the American business man who feels the pinch of the rule of privilege in Mexico. “Such commissions,” the petition reads, “are nothing more than partisan centers where laws, reason and justice are mocked. “This atrocious work will be judged by public opinion as soon as the deep and serious damage which has been done is known, and history will in time establish the responsibility. Suffice it to say that in every case it has been a work of destruction and never of construction.... “The local agrarian commission is inventing fantastic plans of taxation, confiscating large and small properties, and sugar, _mezcal_ and orange plantations, which have cost their legitimate owners years of toil and the investment of considerable capital. The federal tribunals, deaf to all appeals, follow an invariable line of conduct in every case against the landowners. Should the landowner invoke in his behalf the same doctrines which have been applied to the benefit of others, he finds out that these same doctrines are never interpreted in his favor. The authorities only favor those they wish to favor and to accomplish this end they do not hesitate to override justice and reason.”