Show I. I j Fortifying the Boundary I I ITH all the good will in the world toward the Mexican people W WITH the logic of events seems destined to fix the United States With Vilh the exception exception exception in ul their point pant of view ev as the natural enemy tion of the populations on the immediate border whose nerves revolutions and rebellions ons in inthe the recurrent have been irritated by the the skier sister republic and the forays incident thereto there is no large larg clement in the United States that bears an enmity to Mexico or or the Mexicans There Thereof is a handful of men influential b by reason of their wealth and their consequent command of publicity that domination exercised south of the to American would like see the of these men is so transparent transparent transparent trans trans- border but hilt the selfishness of designs adhesion of succeeded in winning the parent that the they Y have nee never the American people at large to their schemes The American i t attitude has continued despite grievous irritation to be one of I m hopefulness in the ability of the Mexicans to arrange their state stale in an orderly fashion at Washington Washington Wash Wash- But tolerant as the public may y be the government VashI I toward citizens on the border andin andin and andin ington has a dot duty to perform in the P performance of that duty it has become necessary at divers times tinier to do things that ha have ye wounded the susceptibilities of the neighboring nation Such was 1 General Pershing's pursuit of Villa and the more recent incursion of American troops when the same i highhanded bandit so deployed toyed his marauders that persons in inEl inI El Paso fell fen victims to his bullets And now we arc are told by I Washington that in view vie of the chronic disorder on the line it has become necessary to fortify practically the thc entire border From the gulf to the Pacific there now stretches a nearly unbroken system of forts and posts facing south i It is easy to foretell how this news will be received on the theother other side stile of the international boundary It will be described as asa asa I and the imagination of the a fresh menace by the gringo i r I I natives ves ever read ready y to take fire will be inflamed by the indubitable fact of that stein string g of am armed stations keeping watch and ward from Brownsville to San Diego Just at the hour when peace is about to be proclaimed in ini i 1 war-torn war Europe the United States champion of the cause of s I peace through its president has felt under compulsion to cr create ate ateI 1 I a situation that may y engender war on its own frontier I |