Show EDITORIAL NOTES kansas ie about to fiend a train load of provisions to the poor ol 01 a and new york kansas wishes to prove to the eatie faction of those ties that she raises other thinas besides hellana conda standard one of the of discussion in literary circles is the uee of the word a monget long 1 ot quotations from wb beet authors have been produced in evidence to ebow that the word ie correct its opponents admit its correctness correct nets ant they very properly taaim that it ia not necessary to make use of a word that ie uncouth even though it has the authority of good writers boice statesman it is interesting to note that just as mexico ie spreading her silver tipped wings for a higher flight into the upper air of a healthy prosperity great abineri can I 1 journals are telling their readers that the united states is no longer a country of baet and ned resources and that the american people must now begin to reckon with the con that surround oth r c here we are looking for the days 0 greater things we have bigger banks than any in the united states we have more hopeful pioneers of our great capitalists are planning every day something new and they have a haat of getting dividends out of their enter prices the treasury ie full and a surplus confronts ue minister limantour finds the finances so satisfactory that be abandons some of the economies needed in oar day of smaller things president ample brain Is teeming with progressive ideas and he Is letting them out daily you cin get coed inte reston your money here and the trusts and combines of the united states have not croiser the border yet with sharp ath eel like a pack of wolves eager to fatten on mexican prosperity mexico stands a great big In minous solid silver example cf bound government bound and sound money mexican herald frenchmen who complain at this late date because england and spain abandoned france in mexico in 1862 instead of helping to maintain maximilian hav eboth a poor appreciation of republican institutions and an erroneous estimate of the power of the united etalea at that time it should be observed that france concluded to abandon maximilian to his fate because he united states ned ere this wag after england and spain withdrew but france england and spain combined could not have un ot mexico the knifed would of course have had the support of the mexicans and with their help it would have driven all three of the european powers out ot mexico the american navy at the close of the war and when france abandoned maximilian was he most formidable in the world and the northern army well equipped bad just returned from a successful conflict this country could have thrown tens of thousands of veteran soldiers into mexico and the fleet would have protected our coasts from both france and england it would have been a terrible war if greatly prolonged and it might have had a powerful effect upon the world russia might have come to the help of the united states and the conflict would probably have ended in the complete humiliation of both franco and england to say nothing of driving maximilian out of mexico san francieco chronicle |