Author: Charles Henry Grosvenor

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-02-09

Total Pages: 46

ISBN-13: 9780656151417

Excerpt from Mexican Free Zone: Report; March 11, 1898 The opinion of Mexican merchants to the south, at Saltillo, Monterey, and other places, is decidedly opposed to the Free Zone, and they protested vigorously against the gross discrimination against their interests, for, as they contend, they can not compete with the Zone merchants in selling goods _to purchasers living within 100 miles of the Zone, owing to the facility with which such goods can be bought therein and carried out by the purchasers, or bought from the smugglers who make a busi ness of furnishing the interior trade with contraband goods. The merchants and the newspapers in the interior have always contended that the existence of the Free Zone on the frontier was contrary to the interests of the nation; even the people on the frontier, the property owners, and practically all persons having the welfare of the country at heart and who have given the subject some thought, share this opinion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.