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Show prcted in my country .as the last effort of expatriates, 'members of the old regime re-gime of Mexico and their powerful confederates and politicians in Europe, and this country, to precipitate armed intervention; as they fael, that when the complete pacification, the re.habiii- I tation of the industries now in suspense, the intensification of commercial rel.t- I lions' and the general development of! the wonderful resources of tile country I are accomplished facts their dream of I the return of an obsolete despotic svs-ten, svs-ten, of government, and tin? embroil-I ment of two nations in armed conflict I will be a. thing of the past " t0,1I'Ul 1 - jj cupied a long time in the work of paci-! paci-! filiation, in a few of the remoter dis-; dis-; tricts. Yet, because the James boys, f the Apache kid, Geronimo, and other , bandits in the southwest continued . their depredations after the civil war, j no one would have urged that the American government was 'unstable.' ' "In addition to the after effects of , the civil strife, there are parts of Mexico in which conditions today are much like they were in votir own west not so many years ago". Your army was kept busy for two generations by the Indians and bandits of the west. Within my own memory the border districts dis-tricts of Mexico were raided almost constantly by Indians escaping from reservations on your own side of the border. Cooperation of the two governments gov-ernments (treaty of 1S82) in the matter of pursuit of bandits and cattle thieves across the international line resulted m the suppression of most of these dis-I orders in the early eighties, culminating ' in -the capture of the Apache Geronimo and his band of Chiricahua Indians by the forces of General Miles in 1SS0. "We are now trying to arrange for a renewal of the former system. Foreigners For-eigners in Mexico todav are accorded every protection. In the few disturbed areas they are occasionally made the victims of bandits, but in every case the government is devoting the utmost energy to the pursuit and punishment of the criminals. In such areas the foreigner undergoes a risk that he assumes as-sumes when lie enters such an area, and his peril is no greater than the danger to Mexicans. "A few Wnndei-infr i n a 1 1 . n .t -""h .inii,fs oc.incretl : over an immense and sparsely settled country a country of mountains and wilderness in part can keep a great many troops busy in pursuit, as vour own western experiences have demonstrated. demon-strated. The Mexican government today to-day is spending two-thirds of its national na-tional income on the pursuit and punishment pun-ishment of bandits. It has an army. of over oO.OflO men engaged in this work and troops are ever on the heels of these bandit. The whole business is in process of being wound up at this time. Zapata and many other bandit tindrkil!ede bern to their camps "Other small bands are breaking up f lie -Mexican government todav- is 'making 'mak-ing a showing in this tremendous task of pacification which compares favorably favor-ably with the effort of any government which has ever been confronted with conditions at all similar. "Mexico has never repudiated any of her international obligations, and 'will meet every debt which is due She has the resources to discharge every ' obligation without making any serious drain on her national wealth and s fast as these assets become available with the revival of industry s, e"' meet her obligations. In the oil re-ion there has not been one instance of confiscation nor are the companies paying royalties. In 1018 thev pro duced M.nno.npn barrels of oilZXni a potential capacity of their w? I n over ..So,0!-l0,(ino barrels Tl,ei Published balance Xets si ' Zil prosperity and profits. ,,,01r "The very intense press nrotv, i of these davs, wl,en ( he prinenv f lits are being ki.led i r' or are surrendering to the governm' forfc K or disbanding, and when the ivi'h'V (C tion ot the country is i BONILLAS SAYS ORDER IS WORKING OUT IN MEXICO WASIIIXGTi X, July 56. Ambnssa- dor bonillas made the following statement state-ment todnv: "Mexico today has a stable government. govern-ment. True liiere are some districts in which a few bandits are at large. Mexico Mex-ico is in the a ficrina i h of a civil war, and the conditions in these few areas ar-such :is have followed such strutr-Lrles strutr-Lrles in all kinds. Tn your own south it was man;.- years after Appomattox before be-fore conditions were reslored to norma! and your eohfrnl eovcrnment was oc- |