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Show H The Shame of It and The Sin B ( NCE more our authorities raise their voices B - to advise Americans in Mexico to get out. B About the grandest act in our country's history B. was when, because of the unspeakable wrongs B perpetrated by Spain upon her subjects in Cuba, B our forces were set in array, in a brief struggle R broke the arm of Spain, cleansed Cuba of cen- B. turies of accumulated filth, drove away the pesti- B .lence that had raged continuously there for more B than a century; fed the starving people, estab- B lished order, opened schools and supplied them B with teachers, protected the island until her own B people could establish a government, then folded Hj our flag and sailed away. H Contrast that picture with the other picture Hj of thousands of Americans in Mexico, there by H! invitation and a promise of protection, with all H they have in the world invested there, now hold- B ing out their arms to their native land for pro- B' tection and receiving no answer to their appeals B except to get out of that land if they can. B The two pictures looked at together would in- B dicate that the great republic, so panoplied as it B is in power, -is too timid to be just to either B Mexico or our own countrymen. j A little comprehension of the real situation B and a little decisive work would have made Mex- Bj ico tranquil In three months, at any time during B the past three years. |