Show RECOGNIZING TIlE THE REBELS Some of the daily papers are opposing an invasion of Mexico by y the United States on the ground that it would be a blunder blunder blunder blun blun- der to recognize the belligerency That argument nent ment is but a continuation of the splitting hair-splitting spun fine-spun soft soap talk with ith which Inch the patriotic patrIotic patriotic patri patrI- otic citizens of the nation have had to content themselves for months By means of the Monoe Mon Mon- roe oe Doctrine we forbid European nations from doing police duty on this s continent and amI yet et we ue refuse reuse refuse re- re fuse use fuse to lend a hand or a mailed fist fist to a nation on this continent that hat cannot afford allord protection to foreign citizens s within its bound bound- aries cries It will be rem remembered m that in 1812 our citizens on the the- high seas were molested by the BarDary Barbary Barbary Bar- Bar bary Dary pirates This na nation ion was not lot as strong as it is at the present time but it did not stop to x haggle over questions of in international international international in- in policy Neither did it ip hesitate about re recognizing the belligerency belligerency ncr of the pirates It seems however howe th that t we wc have better apologists at the present time I I |