Show our relations with mexico REJECTION Ra b ab the mixed claims commission of the american claim against mexico fo for inde indemnity mity for the killing of americans in the santa ysobel massacre is causing many to advocate withdrawal of diplomatic diplomat ae relations with inith mexico as a means of bringing pressure to bear upon her and add an expression of our disapproval that is the old method cf of international conduct which has caused wars anum reable it t is usually employed by the strong against the weak if the weak are sufficiently feeble so that force can be used without bringing on a real war then the offended nation goes still further and makes demonstrations in the form of seizure of property of ports or territory to hold ns as a pledge or compensation the latter ca coarse a se is not followed when the nation against which the claim is held i 11 a strong one and could put ip a good fight discretion is still a part of international diplomacy though often unintelligently un intelli gently used the united states cannot afford to employ any methods of fettling a controversy of any sort with mexico that she the would woin not employ were it with england or france our attitude in such a matter should not be determined by our size and ply steal ability to compel iNh ateer acton diction we desire that has been the method of the world throughout the ages and it has nothing in history to recommend it u war bloodshed and plunder if there is ii oer eier to be world peace it must come through abolition of the dement clement of if force foree in the settlement of international difficulties in this abandonment 0 of tone forie fori e the united states should set an example ba b using again the mill m ill and weak exactly the saute measures me used against the large ami and power powerful fol we should not attempt an coer coerced ciD measure against a weak notion that we would not employ in la the case of the most powerful pou erful to do so ro would be lie pain plain bullying and the united states can not afford to be a bull defene against physical aggression is proper and a necessity city but coercion of the weak eak is not it is an exa exhibition hibi tion of the spirit winch i aich has lias drenched the world in blood for ages the sultan of mot wco will defy the koran and vall itil paw is and why should he not noff it ft wai paris and not the koran that ga gae e him min his job doctors are now predicting s such h longer life for the a et there arc are many who ailio would like the doctors to tell them theia how to make it not seem so long 1 1 i george bernard shaw says people ha hai e a perfect right to criticise criticism critic ise him aim because when he m was as 3 oung and ignorant he lie also criticised criticized those who knew more than thai he did if there 1 any comfort for hia big critics in that they are welcome nelcome to it all registrants at mt oke college a thi till var noar will be considered as having given their word of honki not to hl who nho while under the college jurisdiction the authorities think hat where there is so much smoke in other colleges there must be some sort of fire nobody would object so much to automobile casualties if they could be confined to the fool arii cause them if paul revere could have postponed hie his famous ride until this ts 01 year just 1 hink how havir much advertising some automobile automo bile company could get laef O 0 it aliw umi i ii un |