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Show MUST STOP THE BOYCOTT. Two papers of the City of Mexico have advised the people to inaugurate in-augurate a boycott against Americans in Mexico. That is a phase of the anti-American hatred now raging in the City of Mexico which demands de-mands instant attention. The act of the mob in tearing down the American flag can await the slow process of diplomatic exchanges, but the threat of financial injury and consequent personal distress to hundreds of our countrymen now in the southern republic, should be answered by a counter threat which will carry with it the conviction convic-tion that the Mexicans themselves will suffer most from this highhanded high-handed offensiveness and unjustifiable bitterness, if they do not desist de-sist immediately. The Mexicans, no doubt, were greatly incensed when they read the dispatches reciting the story of the burning to death of a Mex-ioan Mex-ioan in Texas by an American mob, and their resentment and indignation indig-nation was entitled to public expression in an orderly way, but the attempt to inflict on innocent Americans in their capital punishment for the lawless, outrageous acts of a mob in Texas in turn justifies harsh measures of retaliation in this country, unless the Mexican government proves equal to the occasion and vigorously represses the demonstrations and makes reparation for the injury already done. |