Show POOR V r POOR MEXICO r The news from Mexico is is depressing So yi yiv i v div divided ded are the factions there so many petty ch chieftains with their followers s are preying upon t. t the ruins of their country r Y that there seems no hope hone of settlement rather a drawing nearer and nearer nearer toward utter anarchy every day I IVe We Ve wish that President Wilson would urge Brazil on the east and Chile on the west to send j cir b-cir- fleets and nd each an army corps to unite at Tchi and proclaim to the people of Mexico that they must cease fighting and agree aglee to an election and then accept the president so I elected and thenceforth keep the peace We believe that Mexico 1 is so exhausted that it would be glad to accept such intervention We Ve wish that it might be done for really there is great danger in permitting matters to drift as they have been drifting danger on our border for certain it is that an army of men could be raised in a day in Texas New Mexico 1 Arizona and California to invade Mexico l from froni the north That the restless spirits there have been quiet so long is a n wonder for the feeling there is gener general general gen gen- er eral l that the northern states of Mexico 1 are peopled by men incapable of self government that t it would be a mercy to take them and give them a stable go government Then there ther is the theother theother other thought of the vast resources of that region region region re re- re- re gion and the opportunities latent there Finally Americans own own vast interests there purchased with witha a promise of protection again there is th the only h half smothered memory of wrongs s suffered suffered suf suf- f- f by Americans who went wept there in good faith wrongs for which up to date there has been no Iho retribution As we construe the business business business busi busi- ness Me Mexico ico is i in m more e d danger th than r ever eve before |