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Show MEXICO SHOULD GO SLOW. . These are. not good days for the Mexicans federals or insurgents to grow chesty toward the lrnited States. They have all had notices enough of the good offices of our government, and they are in no good condition to threaten what they would do nnder certairrcontingenc.ee, for they will realize, if they will stop to think for a moment, that except for tha United Statea they would have been counted out aa nation long ago and that were the United Statea to proclaim tomorrow that the Monroe doctrine, aa it has been understood for 100 years past, would no longer have any application applica-tion to Mexico, that country would be the prey of despoilers before aixty (lays. Moreover, President Dias and his friends ought to keep in mind that the progreaa which Mexico haa made during the past twenty-five years haa been due chiefly to the influx of strong foreigners and their money, the chiefeat of whom have been from the United. Stales, and that, if necessary, this government will "have to safeguard those lives and that property. Ilence, whatever the quarrels among Mexicans, this is a time for all thoae belligerents to be decent to the outside world) with more than 12,000 miles of coaat line, with a border of 1200 miles to guard and with insurrection running riot all over the republic, it ia no good time for Mexicana to become arrogant and imperious. ' |