The Alaska citizen., 1916-07-31

t1 be annexed eventually to the tinted States in fact history shows that this process of annexation has been going on for the last seventy years
 Up to lS45 Mexico was the third largest nation in the world-only Russia and China were larger. At that tune the area of the United States Was less than Mexico.
 But ill 1S45 the historical destiny of Mexico began to work itself out. h. that year the great State of Texas, which had reyolted from Mexico was added to the United States. Three years later the enor- nous territory which is now Cali forn... ltah Ar4lrH4. Nevada and New Mexico Was purchased from Mexico and became a part of the United States. Five years later. in 1853. still another slice of Mexico was annexed, carrying the bounda ries of Arizona and New Mexico still further south.
 Will this process go on? Will new States be slowly added at intervals as in the past, or will a situation arise sooner or later when the en tire territory of Mexico will be an neXed by one stroke of the pen? Is, indeed the last act in the Mexi- can drama at this moment being played? Will the chapter that be- gan with the pursuit of Villa end with the addition of 15.0O0, 900 MeXi- cans to the 100000 GOO population .. t'n United States?
 When this has been accomplished We will have added MeXico's twen- ty-seyen sovereign states. three ter ritories and one federal district. And We have instantly to face the annexation problems of peace. Look ing ahead at the first congress after annexation We will find two senators from each of the seventy five states an imposing body of 150 legislators where there are but 96 now Computed by the census of 1910 there would be just 800 mem bers of the house of representatives in the present congress if Mexico were a part of the Union This is an increase of 50 congressman over the 440 that now constitute the lower house. In 1920 there will be another apportionment If Mexico forms part of the Greater United States then the present ratio of one representative to every 211,877 Stat,s than the present ratio of a figure that will keep the mem bership of the lower house at 500 or at the present figure of 440 per haps, rather than be inconvenienced through unwieldiness.
 At any rate, it will be an impos- ing body with a sprinkling of In dian blood in it. for that strain flows through many a Mexican. Be nito Juarez and Porfirio Diaz, two of the greatest presidents of the republic, sprang from the famous MiXtec tribe of OaXaca The pres ent United States has repeatedly shut the door on it's Indians being nees in legislative halls. Mingled with Mexico. however, the Greater United States will have to take down the bars
 The Mexican senators and repre- sentatives in the Greater Congress at Washington will be legislatively responsible for the welfare of com monwealths fully the equal of many of our present forty-five States in area population and wealth. The Mexican state of greatest area is Chihuahua, with a surface of S9,974 square miles. Its northern frontier abuts on the United States for more than 500 miles. It's population is 4O5,265 The Mexican state of great est population is Jalisco, the last census giving it 1,202,S02 inhabi- tants. It has a Pacific Ocean coast line of 15O miles, Its area is 33,4S6 square miles.
 The smallest Mexican state is TlaXcala, with an area of 1895 square miles and a population of 1S3,805 But just as we have larger area in some States than the pres ent Mexican commonwealths, like wise We nave smaller area in some of our political divisions. Little Rhode Island of our present Union is but 1,248 square miles in extent That is to say, our smallest State is smaller than MeXco's smallest state by BAY square miles. The State of smallest population in the present United States is Nevada, with a census tally of 81,875. In Mexico the least population is fig ured for Colima. with a 777O4 mark, or AM less than our least The United States possesses the smallest State in area Mexico the smallest in population There are nine States in the United States larger