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Show Kt' OUR DUTY IN MEXICO. Z REGARDLESS of whether the pur- B"' H,it und punishment of Villa and his Hu feUow marauders mny embroil us in j, u war with Mexico or not, wo have no p rugrets over the course that has fi- Hr nally been taken by our government H in this matter, and the only criticism H"" WQ bavo to offer is that wo havo been H , altogether too slow in showing to our 7 southern neighbors that American Lv" rights and American citizenship must B resp6cted. Where wc have mndo i our most serious mistake is in nc- U crediting to a people of the Mexican H K calabre intelligence capable of appre- Hj elating and understanding our long- T suffering course towards them, which Bf 'iey navo attributed to fear instead H of our kindly motives. But to those H who believe in the Monroe Doctrine, JHB ur.d feel that America should be pre- H served for Americans, there can be P no doubt ns to our duty in relation to HBl' Mexico. A condition has existed in RB t1Qt country for the past two or three HHf years that has been intolerable, and HLh it has been our duty as the champion SjHB American freedom and American BHfi'' rights, to assist in the petting up of jHHg, ' n stable government for that country, mHHR- a,"l not permit it to remain in a state QHK; of lovolutioji and ronuipt wuifaru in- MBB definitely. ffiMDK It is impossible to predict at this WpBB, time the outcome of the operations tvjfsfsSfc. 'n Mexico, At any time something wr ma arB0 t caUB0 a break between Jlf" " '10 eac government of Mexico and Jvsftgyffif the United States. Already theie wmfyXM has been friction over matters which umSbm ' 'mvo como up' 8UC'1 ut 8u'zuro BjuUml a large shipment of ammunition con- jPJmHUj ' elgned to Carranza's general, by our 4JawL troops, the use of .Mexican railroads fff&inBr ' or thi transportation of soldiers and WK&SXj supplie, and there is at all times the hBHKi possibility of tho Villa and Carranza BHB ' forces uniting to fight what they may consider to bo a common enemy. But if it is necessary for us to conquer con-quer tho entiro Mexican Republic and establish a provisional government there as wo did in tho Philippines and Cuba, it will be in the interests of humanity hu-manity nnd in keeping with the duty that wc owe tho civilization of the Western Hemisphere. Under present conditions, in Mexico n large and valunblo country is being allowed to run riot and go to waste for tho want of law and ordqr, which can only como when there is a stablo government gov-ernment set up that is strong enough to enforce obedience and respect, especially es-pecially among ' peoploTfuch ns in-habit in-habit Mexico, . |