The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-12-19
HOUSTON, MONDAY, DEC. 10. 1908.
TEN PAGES TODAY
\ MrscurEvous SPIRIT.

Some of our excited American papers,
inspired by the highly colored pictures re-
gently drawn of greater America ana our
manifest Destiny" are beginning to look
for new fields for conquest ana nave
picked out Mexico as one of the next VIC
Tins of our new policy of territorial ex-
pansion.
The Santa Fe New Mexican has attracted
the notice of some leading journale in
Mexico bv INDUCING in the following fam
ciful comment:
thar the time is not very far distant wnsh
Mexico will become an integral part or the
United States. and the line may eStena SCUM ~,
wait for much time to elapse ere the eonquesl
is ugde, for that process is even now gotns
on. But il is peaceful conquest. 0aano &
are capital and machinery; ana Inc mum %
the latter at its industrial work. ana tne
chipk OF the former as IL Is being scattered IN
countless directions in furthering and deVoi-
opiug business enterprises are as thc r9ti ~,
On ", sketry and the boom OF cannon on tha
actual battlefield. American push eners! !,
,lsor and thrift are permeating all parts Oh
the old Aztec Dominion
AS might have been expected, this kind
of talk just at this tune has aroused con-
siderable Indignation and no little fear in
certain portions of Mexico. Our Southern
neighbors across the Rio Ggande and in
Central America and the republics of South
America are suspicious of us at best They
fear above all things TO see the great re-
pubic enter upon career OF imperialism
or exhibit a spirit Of conquest. They never
have had any too much love Tor US. III
spite OF the fact that the Monroe doctrine
alone has saved them from greedy Europe
SUCH utterances as those OF the SAINT
Fe Mexican, therefore, are not oni'
calculated to cause uneasiness but uh'
friandliness to the south of Us and serious
ly injure American business and impefl
the position OF resident Americans in Mex
leo and Central America The Mexican
Herald, the excellent paper published u
English in tho City of Mexico. has this t
say in the premises:
one would Imagine from this that no 9th
nationality was at work IN Mehlco, ~
French capital was not eXtenslSeiy luF YES
here 10 trade. in manufacturing. ana, iate'
in copper mining; that Spanish resluchls W.
not brsily engaged In trade ana inannlactu
Ing and in pushing on large enterprises,
short uhat only American capital was AZ wo
here and that for = sinister purpose, the
struutson OF Mexteos nationality
repi ehensible; 1t is calculated 10 renuer !
hospltnble Mexican people unjustly suspieio
OF friendly Americans engaged, IN al ioyAi
aud sincerity of purpose In aiding the deV'
opuent of Mexco's resources.
This Ia Imperialism gone mad, uepau
OF expansion and land greed, There is not
word in this article which represents the r
sertinsf,nis OF Americans here, many OF TN
OF a high grade OF ability. managing lar
businesses, and honestly irleudly 10 Mex
and loyal to the sentiment Of Mexican INT
pennaues.
Our Mexican contemporary can rest q
suted that the Santa he New Mexican
tho instance cited, does not represent I
Intelligent, conservative sentiment In u
country. We shall probably, too. get me
than We want OF imperialism and expa
sion before, in the natural development
such policy, we would reach the questi
of Mexican annexation. Mexico Is as 81
from American conquest as any peol
could be so long as the Mexicans do mo-
ing to arouse American hostility and
Mexican government continues It's stro
and LIBERAL administration of affairs.
One OF the greatest dangers OF imperl
ism. however. is this very expansion
eapans lon--the constant cry for NOR
The spirit Of greed and conquest OF
aroused 1t is tiffi,uit TO set limits TO IT,