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Show uu WAR WITH MEXICO. Our consular agentat Puebla, Mexico, Mexi-co, is in jail and. although the admln- ration at Washington has made imperative im-perative demands for his release, Cj r-ranza r-ranza continues to declare he will not comply Mexico is a weak and distracted country, and therefore must he de-.ll (with In a most patient maniic;-. Hui Mexico has about exhausted ail the kind consideration due from even . generous a country ns is the United States. During the war with th central empires, em-pires, the secret service of the United States discovered plots agiinst Am' r. ica which were developing In Mexico City, with the knowledge of Ihe Mexican Mexi-can government. Nearly all 0x9 Gar-ranza Gar-ranza leaders were In full tsympath with Germany and man.- openly rejoiced re-joiced whenever success attended German Ger-man arms. In return Germany had promised to (urn over a part of the Cnited States to Mexican rulf, follow ing n victorious close of the world war. For years our border towns and cities cit-ies have suffered from banjit raids and at times the Mexican repular have seemed indifferent to the out rages. The time is approach in j when Mex ,ico must bo forced to respuct Ann .' ,ica. It may be necessary to administer adminis-ter a sharp rebuke. The drift is rap-Idly rap-Idly in the direction of a declaration of hostilities, to bo follows 1 by a cleau-Ing cleau-Ing up process which will send American Ameri-can troops into Mexico. In case of war this country un. doubtedly would limit its attacks lo j the strictest requirements of civilized warfare. The airplane would not bo employed to bomb cities and noison gas would not bo used, unless Mexico I saw fit to utilize thos weapons of I rightfulness and thus provoke retaliatory retal-iatory measures. o |