The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-03-26
Thc NIcsican situntion.

s{S me Mexican Situation.
There IS an Irish story that. a,s on,
was proposed once In a Wicklow vii
tage TO build new school house and
there was a town meeting Al the
nnally Farmer o'Fiaherty thus pre-
sentcd his views: We don't nccd Il
new sehool house. The old ono IS mono
The Bricks and sniid a now ons i we're
bent on having one. and Just let the
old school house stand. We can use
1t for other purposes. There IS o
King 81 France. with twice ten thou
sand men, marched up the hill An6
then marched down again When i,
Is all over we shall have ..!nanoouvrcd'
away sevaral hundred thousand dollars
that would have warmed tho Treasury
budget, scared an awful lot OF timid
Mexican women and children, siven
that will certainly fall on the inof
fcnsiyo Americans doins business IL
thc country. ana generated an amount
Of gestures that would otherwise have
found q peaceful vent IN ten thousand
cock fights and the bull ring.
The Mig Game.
All Of tho big, rich, powerful nations
w'ays--bras and gra,. They handle
ihcir prestige as IN freshman does his
Fhillalah the weapon TINT was
never kEONi " MISS III e.. L 4Itl litl '
no idea Of seornng wars made mere
IS for territorial expansion. Their
ideas Of mcun and tuunl are. lo, say
Ihe least. ila1y They have 10 ob:jes-
with the affairs OF neighhoring nations
whatever They say. lypocrit!callN
tina, they feel It 10 be their duty TO
regulate the universe. That 1t IS to
their interest does not appear units
later. 'Thc Pumbiccho okian method
the Pickw!ckian system, the parlia-
mentary language somehow. spell con,
guest. which is curious, that is all
VIC have really no more business IL
Mexico than ne had III Cube. Porto
riico and tho Philippines that is, mons
spasns OF vlrtuous Indignation ovel
South (Which HAD Lord Palmerstor
.esn N;IaPoleor, he would on n hay y., 50
you'd have but made neat sandwich
between Canada and the Confedoracy>.
has not hesitatcd TO take all three. and
IS nov loaded for bear',and wai'ils
c3rnc." The Mexican eagle had better
stop tearing out its own tail feathers
end keep ITS powder dry.
1!eaico
What should We DO with Mexico 4
re got her? Put the poems and MI
that Vast mass Of l'yhrds m mss ;o,
srelS wonderful, above. the decent
Spanish element that mas somehow
hcld 1t III check all this time; root out
the religion III their fathers: ohliteratc
"nIanana" and substitute our hurry
voIry. iinrry. hustle instead; make
1T ilioSal to use rcd pepper and oil and
garlic. AMI obligatory TO buy the New
England pic; contiscatc the ;wig broom
ami the charcoal not and "intruducc'
millions Of American carpet sweepers
md up-to- date ranges: blot out
monte" ard Geek PITS ana .torGa,
pictures and rag-timc music; sweep
away the nsntilla ana orddin that
Chantccler and Merry Widow hats
raall al Die be Mexican: ELIMINATE III,
long BLACK s;own IA na,ional2e the
iiarcm slzir.. eNtilpate Tie exquisite
Eentlcness aa! Wnmdnly mo;cstS q
the MoXiaan lnothcrs ara insist on
conventions ana clubs and equal suf-
srage: tear down their guam. old shops
LA Rosa Ifina," La Perla Supcrba
where a most gentiemanly man sells
YOU q nlckcl's worth of anything AZ
II your purchase came TO "a thousand