Photograph by S. J. Spooner 



A PATIENT MEXICAN MOTHER 



When war for the peace of the world and " for the principles that gave her birth," is welding 

 the great heart of America into high-purposed unity, she must needs feel a deep pity for the mothers 

 and children of distracted Mexico, and a just indignation that their burden of poverty and distress 

 has been increased by selfish Prussian intrigue. 



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