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Show ! MEXICO NEEDS WATCHING. Keep one eye on Mexico. Uncle j Sam, while ou have the other on the German. Before America entered the war. there was a considerable force of Gor- , mans in Mexico, and every one of the -Teutons was laboring to develop trou-ble trou-ble between the United States and Mexico. Of late there have been fresh 1 outbreaks of brigandage along the bor-1 tier, with now and then a clash of American soldiers and Carranza ru-, rales. With the Mexicans highly suspicious sus-picious of all Americans and the r,. r man1- egging them on. some day a blow will be struck on the Rio Grande which will startle the country. I This nation could carry' on a war i with Mexico and not feel the burden, in fact the fight would only serve to get our men into condition for the Hi heavy work across the ocean The cost ( would not be much more than is now necessary in training our boys in cantonments. can-tonments. The one immediate effect would be to speed up every branch of I the war service. If we ever again go into Mexico, we must go resolved to clean up the pestilential pes-tilential corners of that misguided I republic For years we have labored i to befriend the Mexicans and aid them I in the civilizing forces which were ' lilting the half Indian out of the squalor of dirt and ignorance, but our efforts have been misunderstood, and in return we have received contempt, accompanied by border raids. |