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Show mi mi.i , .i i WHAT SHALL THE HARVEST BE? t Gontlcmon in Washington toll us the pooplo of Moxioo-will havo to work -t)ut their-own problems prob-lems that"ve lmvciio right to interfere." Ifthoy Sfiojl .oJ.vimj,tc.hpjr problems for the . n6xt flf ty years as they have been doing for the past three hundred,1 iiht Won't 6fo Urldgfe rib1raHnilo or railway from tho Rio Grando to Panama. There won't 'bo a producing mine, nor i profitable mill. Thoir'farms will bo desolate, and their cities just heaps of cannon-riddled ruin. And overy rod of grdulul botwoon tho oceans will bo the grave of a human being dono to doath by the inaction of big brothers who wouldn't take the guidanoo whon little brothers couldn't safely guide thorn-solves thorn-solves 1 Maybo lhoro was a time when the conduct of ono nation was nono of tho 'businoss of any other nation. Maybo thoro was a timo whon nobody earod if his neighbor did go crazy. Maybo lhoro was a tlmo whon a man rhad a rrght to keep lumpy-jawod oattlo, and glandorod horses, and scabby shoop, and San Joso soala in- his fruit treos, and Canada thistles n his front yard and burdocks 'in his fonco cornqrs and all that sort of thing. ' t But that day has passed for-nations as well as for mem Neither pooRle nor peoples .Uyo to themsojvos alone. There is a community of inr terost that runs tho wholo round world; and civilization has no right to permit any member of tho goporal family to go back to barbarism, That's whore Mexico is going, and sho is taking tak-ing us vith her to tho oxtent that wo aro willing to let, her go; indifferent to tho brutal murder that shames the name of war; callous to tho call pf.ouj; kijidrod invited iito Mexico, and stripped nnd striped for KQing thoro. What will tho harvest bo? Can any Mexican rule Moxico? Nipt a man of them, Will thoy abandon strife, and ot down to plapicl industry? Every' dVop Of blood Arod by the centuries of savagery argues against it. Vi the najiqns of tho earth forever loavo unused ,11m strategical opportunity prosentod by a country sp torn by internal dissension, so rich in resource, so he'p-loss he'p-loss to tho hand of invading power? ' " " ' Thoro istapan, ready to makp a , rq'thold in , Mexico that would change tho map of tho modern mod-ern world as surely as tho Aryan invasion changed itho anoionl;a foothold thati" would as profoundly affect 'the people of this cbntinent 'as ' Shibm iiiH5it)Trf of a t'roubM Irttta rovplUltyni jzpd ;tho 'lood of Briton and Colt. ,",",, AJjfl , finnan, is pily one of a flock of nations full .in .tho oyo of possibility" today. Tomorrow will better'thoir chances". Neither nation nor man lives to himself aiOn& Theiy'arc big broad rules of life and conduct whicli ' produce forces upon the recognition of i;paspiiable , humanity. Mexico violates those lmjosmand takes a bloody deljgjit in doing it. Rapacity Ra-pacity there grows with what it feeds on. No outrage of today will 'content tomorrow's appetite. appe-tite. One president banishedthe next one butchered;11 butch-ered;11 Oho Amerioan invostor permitted to floe, laVin'llis possessions the next one stripped of tlTio( very means of leaving, and subjected to tor-tui$9 tor-tui$9 v,liicll extend to outrages of children and women. Crime fattens on crime; and a people, long oib iO'rtiiVs'tii1 of patriotism, mtinace the whole ybj'ld vith cdiUalnlndlifig example, fliid tllfl, consent' con-sent' jiryjilaliqn: '"Came in and possess it" ivi.What will tho harvest bo? A continent offending of-fending the age and disturbing the world with needless, endless strife or a continent pacified byHhc one 'American power which can give frce-(ijjjn frce-(ijjjn to the Mexicans and progress to the "race,? |