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Show I THE TRUTH ABOUT MEXICO I BY IDWA1D I MIJ- Seconal Artiste. Words to dseertbe tbe HI esTset of Washington's attitude toward Merino an hard to Bad without the appear-eaae appear-eaae of dtetoyeity. Weehineton ha. held the tanteo sltaatiea ta UM hollow of Its aaad end has toyed with it. Whether by design or Indifference on eaaaat say. rat moat certainly Weehlagtea haa dooe HtUa la halp aad aiurh to hinder the no-tabU no-tabU movement toward democracy wwea ktexloo sudor liadere haa eurted. It haa given aid and comfort to doawwracy'l ssswlos aad It baa nasaad tbo htsxlcaa geeernment beyond all endurance. Be-Sooting Be-Sooting oooetant aaauraaoaa (ram Washington Wash-ington of "No Inurvsntloo ualaaa oom-aallad" oom-aallad" newspapers hava aa IsaHtauta Iteass of now. aaploltod thlt proaoenrs-moot proaoenrs-moot aa a virtus and Ita latarproutlon " ""'" " ""' Mare than all least eesetlsas. the bag-shoo bag-shoo of A nwrtsan laaKiafisa has bang at Mexieo tar Bfllsa ssoathA aad until r- h 14. ltlA the free ehlpm.nl of erase aad muamene of war to tho sas-auos sas-auos of ktaaiee's isasUlaTliaal gorem-msnt gorem-msnt .. roes the Rio Orande waa permll tad. Maes that sate the smuaBjUng of arms he s been the chief lnduatrr of the border. Not art tke tending what acorns Ilk. . military patrol along the Teaae ehor. ftflea. pistols, unlroTme, ammunition. sweraA aad eebere. aad area machine guaa, bare stsediiy gone through ta supply sup-ply Ol leis, Sals ear. Zapata and toe doaen lesser lights who lead men against ths government forrae or egalnst property prop-erty Ths question of who nays tar theee srme may he paeaad up as unprofitable It Is clsar, however, that the anemlee of the Me 1 lean government, of eiemocraey. snd or law and order are supplied from the United eta tea aad we hare but to reveres the aeriUsa to oomprehencf the sentiments of loyal and ofBetal Men ens gsnsrally who are "in the know Tha position of the United ate tee toward to-ward Mexico baa been disconcerting aleo In the matter of finance. While local disturbances lessen or promise to leeeen the government a revenues the estraor-l!nr estraor-l!nr opensee of building up end par feeling and carrying on s large military establishment must be largely met by loane. Mexico le a elovsirt country with a moderate debt, aad It llvee within Its means. He hoods are regarded good. But. under existing conditions of turmoil, the Monroe doctrine gently, bnt firmly ctoses SO hankers' doors to Mexico except theee that open upon Wall street Once In that eeteot nslatiborhood la It likely that negotiation ne-gotiation Ta as favorable le tha borrower aa It would be If there were active competition com-petition for the honor of making ths loan? And eo tha terms peruana make It difnoutt to secure authorisation from s critical congress at horns, and la 00 nee -SBonoo loane are probably sealed to a Point, where the efneiecy of the military anas la curtailed. To a man conveniently conveni-ently located in a tall tree It would aeeea likely that Mexico would use two er three hundred millions In Ita business If the burineee were to be well dona And yet the published Items of flotation seem to read around the ten million mark, a sum of money which, even whaa somersaulted Into "Max" Is not calculated to go very tar. with a hungry army la active-very active service. Theee embarrassments which Mexico soaTsrs at tha hands of tha tmited States Be entirely apart from the suspicion that certain persons or corporations helling hell-ing from hereabout may hare given material ma-terial aid to movements directed, against Mexlc,' ..institutional order, end hare not been without Influence at Washington Washing-ton The smbarrasemsnts are sufficient la themselves ta stir up resentment end ere an Is ths feeling that the big is bully-tag bully-tag the little They are, In truth, an indictment in-dictment of moment against ths professed poaltlan of the United Its ue as one of unalloyed un-alloyed altruism toward the republics on this continent They have operated to In sr sees distrust of us among the little republics of Central and the Mg republics of south America and place farther off tha day of materially expanding and rs-sponslvs rs-sponslvs trade Here has been lost a glaring opportunity oppor-tunity for the United Ststss to make a dsep Impression for good; and at preeent there la no foreseeing the evil, which may saw result from dodging the dearly ap-perent ap-perent statecraft of the oaee SS It Brs-eented Brs-eented Iteelf the day Francisco Madera took office ss constitutional president af Mexloo. plsdgsd to the rule of law. Suppaaa that on the morning of that ay any dey thereafter up to and including today. Washington should bare msds. or should make, open aad sweeping sweep-ing announce nient of Ita ''full moral sup-port sup-port of Mexico' 7 Suppose It denned that "moral support'' In terms, with a preamble pream-ble covering recognltkea of the Mg endeavor, en-deavor, end of the fact that a billion dollars dol-lars of Amsrlcan Investments, together with the llvee aad fortunes of many thousand thou-sand A ms cleans, depended for their aafe-'Z aafe-'Z "P?1'."!? stioeees of the effort, and then deejariag that by every honorable means short ef armed Intervention, It would afford aid snd comfort, prohibiting shipment of arms to Its edverserlea and really and truly preventing the passage of arras aerpee the border and tsaderlng ths forded for flnanolng under conditions of liberal comfort suppose this had been done msny months ago would the condition con-dition or things In Mexico today be ss thsy ere 7 Would the Americana nave been driven to abandon their property and flee, or remain at Imminent peril 7 Would tha day be eo dimly distant when tha natural overflow of American energy COUld resume lie movement Into the treasure houss of Mexico's but partly scratched natural resources t |