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Show POOR MEXICO Contributed to the Republican By a Friend This is tho day of her great sorrow. sor-row. Her rich soil Is dally, hourly drink lug tho blood ot tier proudest and bravest men. Pcaco is taken from the land and there Is no power to check tho tears of tho orphan and tho widow. Her tolling masses nro scantily clad In rags and thoy havo no bread to glvo to their starving children. They havo no cities or rcfugo whoro the down trodden of tho ages may find a placo of rest and security. Ycstcrdny they sowed tho seeds ot Intcrneclno Btrlfo. Today thoy reap tho harvest ot death. When nil tho sheaves aro garnered garner-ed nil their dark Karma Is paid, n wondrous change will come upon all tholr land. This, tho darkost hour of their national na-tional life will pass away, as did tho Civil War In tho United States of America, and tho war of tho Revolution Revo-lution In Fra'nco. The poor and lowly ones on tholr soil will bo tho fathors of a newer and higher civilization. Alrendy they havo loarned ono great lesson. It Is this: tliat human kind is not born to live In slavory and poverty. Anothor lesson or two and lo, tho wholo face of Mexico will bo changed. Now cities will spring Into existence, flowers and fruits will bo cultivated, and n now system of education will tree and enrich tho wholo people. When tho unfortunnto ones of today to-day como Into possession ot tho soil that Is tholr own by nature and learn to cultivato It, and to study tho nrts of peaco, and to warm tholr hearts with lovo for tholr brothers tho victory will bo won and Moxlco will bo freo. Lot us as tholr nearest neighbors, wait and watch with patience. Wo can well afford to bo Mexico's best friend In her hour of trial. Who knows what tho futuro has In storo for Moxlco or oven for our own country. Some of tho saviors of tholr coun try and also of ours may today be living in obscurity In somo of their mountain cities. Mexico Is In need of our sympathy. sympa-thy. Let us glvo It freely and also Bet beforo them n Christian example of tolerance and lovo. V 11 Ap-pcrley. |