Show WHAT OF MEXICO 1 A few weeks ago the revolutionary elements clements in iu O Cuba ba were all ready to precipitate chaos upon that island when a a notice from President Taft raft that they must fix up their differences or the United States States- would be compelled to interpose there and tl restore order t to the tue island brought quiet in iu short order and those found a away way to adjust dj i f h rhe They p feared 1 another int intervention l' l ii United d Stat States Stales s fo for two reasons f Q Qu One was wa the knowledge that an overwhelming o majority il tr of or the decent people of f the thc is island would wO gladly hail tub tho coming of the United States Stales and Would vote for permanent United States rule sInh v ila tp that which is fast making Porto Rico a It most prosperous island The flie other oilier tea reason was was' the fear that eventually the United States Stales would become Hired ti cd d bf w ac acting u as the police pollee aud ami poli police e magistrate j o f Cuba and aud take permanent char charge c 1 V When hen Diaz first became president of ot Mexico exico JJ in low Jow unstable were the thu great mass of f 11 his is couii ou lw lie invited the strong races raees of the Dearth th to lo cO come lo to Mexico I und and help hell him restore his exhausted country promising if they ther would that the opportunities of pi h s should be bc open to lo them and ami that hat the they should be protected in life and aud 4 properly 1 lie lIc l kept his wor word for IOl thirl thirty v years ears until the thc inV in in- V v I. I of age and the thc corruption which he could o longer prevent cut overbore him In In the meantime vast aRt amounts of bI foreign capi capi- t- t tIn i. i t al l l mostly American JI and found invest invest- m Jt ty there rc f- f rhen the rebellion came and Madero tempo tempo- Y j i triumphed j But j ut all the ti time uc he insisted that he lie simply desired desired de- de 7 sired to give ghe to InS his countrymen the blessing of h peace and a it really free g government His ills triumph a aCl a very splendid one but vcr very brief bricf it- it l Now iSow new new- rebellions in a dozen states arc are b being ing r mid and if if he ho enters upon a J fierce defense of lis ls of office e an and l his is country the direct charge of the C r l mustangs who arc making the trouble will C he is merely following h in hi the footsteps of or that that tyr tyrant Diaz l Of Of-c Of Of course lI e the conditions ar are arc not at at all the san same e. e J i they e supply an cx excuse for the malcontents t to toon toon a o on with their deviltry devilry L And d' d do now o for the second time tim within a year cal at fit J a l ex expense eu and md ho trouble J th the thc United Sta States es is forced l. l t to send e d t and assemble an army on the th the bor l j f chi This c cannot be he very cry of often cn repeated repealed hut but what j sto is sto to be done l The truth seems to be 10 that the central govern- govern l I 11 nt ii of Mexico 1 cannot control the lawless clein cle cle- Ap S in the northern states of ot Mexico ex co The prop plOp I position s t on by br the government go to sell that Hint row of ot states tate which are of no present strength t to the republic re- re public would be bo les resented so fiercely that the gOY gov- would be swept away before it And still American capital in Mexico must be safeguarded cd At At the thes the's s same me time the he United States cannot two o or tuc e times a year he be expected to hurry an army Von otT to police th the border j How would it do for the United States Slates to lo ent enter l f into an offensive t o and defensive alli alliance mcc with Mad Ma- Ma le d os go an ha haC C U that a t alliance so worded word word- ed d as RS to permit the thc United States to help establish aud and maintain good government in iu Mexico i 1 l lo p pay the expense whenever sh she e called f for r help J v That n liat at would call cal a halt upon those scoundrels who ho lY ye yc year l i wh when n the gra grass g gets ts high enough to feed t h iJ horses prefer to spend th 1 spring and aud sumi sum sum- 11 i months 1 shouting for liberty but bu preying upon th substance 0 of their countrymen If lr an un alliance allian c of that kind could be lie made for fOl twenty years ears perhaps at th the cn end lof of that that time lime the government might he be able to maintain itself un 11 unaided un- un aided |