APPENDIX D
The proposed american chamber of commerce
When I was in Mexico City the American business men were discussing the advisability of organising a Chamber of Commerce. In the Chapter on "The Last Spy Offensive" I mentioned what a contrast there was between the German intrigue in Mexico and the American business methods. I am adding the official statement of the American committee so that the reader may see what the full plans of the Americans are. In so doing I wish to add that contrary to the oft repeated charges in the United States that all Americans and foreigners in Mexico were exploiting the people I found that those Americans in Mexico to-day are the same high type men who are a credit to the United States business world. I met during my stay in Mexico only one pessimistic American merchant who lamented the disappearance of the "good old days" when President Diaz permitted the foreigners to do about as they pleased. He, the Pessimist, advocated intervention in order that these "good days" might return, forgetting perhaps that if the United States ever intervened in Mexico the methods would not be German.
