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Show ' TWO SOULS WITH BUT A SINGLE I THOUGHT "Mr. Carranza and the persons who co-operate H with him are of the profound conviction that if H the American government would know the true H situation in Mexico it would understand that the H only possible, just and acceptable solution would H be to leave the revolution to follow Its natural H course until the complete victory of the party H representing greater necessities and popularity." H Carranza's note to the Latin American confer- H ence. H "I hold it as a fundamental principle, and so H do you, that every people has the right to deter- H mine its own form of government; and H SO per cent of the people of Mexico never had a H 'look-in' in determining who should be their gov- H ernor or what their government should be. H It is none of my business, and it is none of your H business, how long they take in determining it. It is none of my business, and it is none of yours, H how they go about the business. The country is H theirs. The government is theirs. The liberty, H if they can get It and God speed them in get- H ting it is theirs. And so far as my influence H goes, while I am president, nobody shall interfere H with them . Have not European nations H taken as long as they wanted and spilt as much H blood as they pleased in settling their affairs? H And shall Ave deny that to Mexico because she is H Aveak? No, I say!" Woodnnv Wilson's speech at H Indianapolis. H |