1916] "Mexico Next 



from Connecticut and Arizona to uphold most impartially the 

 rights of our land and oil-holding corporations. 



5. If we hesitate we may have to face the claim that a 

 Treaty of Arbitration, signed in 1849, provides that all differ- 

 ences shall be referred to a world court, and that the Pious Fund 

 dispute concerning the California Missions was composed under 

 this treaty, Mexico accepting the adverse verdict and paying 

 the sum claimed. 



6. If we delay some one may compile a list of outrages on 

 our side of the boundary, or even unearth the record of the El 

 Paso "Holocaust" of March 6, 1916, which led three days 

 later to the raid on Columbus. We may even find some one 

 asking for the title deeds of the Standard Oil, Mexican Eagle, 

 and other corporations devoted to the uplift of Mexico. 



7. To be compelled to maintain a subsidized brigand in 

 order to ward off national taxes is a humiliation to these cor- 

 porations as well as to the great nation under their control. 



8. The boundary line from Brazos Santiago to Tia Juana, 

 running chiefly through desert country, is unreasonably long, 

 too long for us to keep in order, and its gulches on both sides 

 are beset with horse thieves and cattle rustlers (locally known 

 as caballeros and vaqueros), making them as unsafe as the edge 

 of the black belt in Chicago or a San Francisco street at mid- 

 night. We must therefore blot out this line. To this end the 

 boundary should be moved southward to the Canal Zone, in 

 which case we should have less than 50 miles to patrol instead 

 of 1756 as at present. 



9. We are the "Coloseo del Norte," and behind us looms the 

 still more colossal figure of "Manifest Destiny." The "lesser 

 breeds without the law" must be taught to know their place. 



10. Only through wars and rumors of wars can we main- 

 tain universal compulsory military service, the only remedy we 

 know to counter the self-determination of labor. 



Is there not somewhere a proverb reading: "I^ we no ^ tne 

 money of a nation we care not who makes the laws"? 



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My work with the Unofficial Commission over- 

 lapped certain obligations in New York, for on July 3 



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