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Show SWKEP OUT THE FILTH When a house floor is covered with filth all decent and relf respecting .people get a broom and commence to sweep. Mexico Is a house floor today and the United States is the man with the broom. It seems that now Is the time to sweep. For five years anarchy has been prevailing in that country, and tor five years each day has seen the, prevailing conditions Just a little worse than the day before. It has been a retrograde movement since the day President Diaz Tied to France. Today we are witnessing the assembling as-sembling of a new army of nearly a hundred thousand men. called to the colors because the president deems it wise to sweep the dirty Mexican tloor. This movement of '.he troons to the Mexican border may ne but the prelude to a general war with Mexico. If such it is to be. then the American army should not be withdrawn until every vestage of filth has be-in swept from the republic to our south and a land once fair shall have been made over into a place of habitation for rational human beings. It is not a pleasant task to undertake, under-take, but it seems to be a burden placed upon the shoulders of the American people. It m be accomplished accom-plished without fuss or feathers or bluster or blow accomplished as the people perform their routine duties of life, for such Is the American spirit. The Stars and Stripes should he respected re-spected wherever and whenever thev are unfurled. Let us see that it Is so. f |