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Show I- MADE BAD BY ENDLESS .CONFLICTS When will Mexico emerge from the intcrnceeine conflict which started away back when William H. Taft was still president of the raited Slates? Europe had its 100-year war Mexico gives evidence of arming to equal that record of human slaughter, j After nine years of fratricidal struggle, the end is not in sight, j In fact, complication increases. From brigandage, the fighting has turned to secession, and now Sonora lias broken away and set up ( ln independent republic. , There will be .greater, opportunity to break the backbone of the government than to suppress the bandit forces which have tcr-d tcr-d northern Mexico for brigandage is more -elusive than any body having a feud object for which to fight. The attacks and counter-attacks of bandits have been on so long in the afflicted republic as to have made nearly every Mexican either an outlaw or the pursuer of an outlaw. This is beginning to tell on ( the character of the Mexican. Before the Madero rebilion, the inhabitants inhab-itants of Mexico were an easy going people, leading simple lives. Now the average man from out of the northern tier of states is looked upon "as a desperate fellow, ready to stab or shoot on the least provocation. This is the natural sequence of nine years of living in a region where life and property received no protection except-that given in individ-v individ-v nals armed to the teeth. Even Mexicans who have come to this country to escape the constant con-stant clashes are found to be cas' victims of any bad environment Hint claims them. |