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of this naturally wealthy, but now poorly 
developed country. This will inevitably 
come, for no one can travel in Northern 
Mexico without clearly seeing it has a 
grand and wonderful future ahead, that 
will greatly strengthen us if we are in the 
ascendant, and that can correspondingly 
hurt us in an hour of need.if we are not. 
The tide is rapidly setting in our favor, if 
we take proper advantage of it. 
When I first sailed on the waters of the 
Gulf of California, some eighteen years 
ago, its commerce, although small indeed, 
was three-fourths in the hands of Euro¬ 
peans, while to-day three-fourths of it is 
American, and only the other fourth 
European. We labor under one disad¬ 
vantage, however, and that is we do not 
attempt to cater to another’s taste, even 
though to do so would be money in our 
