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Rh This anti-American part of the propaganda is very popular. Even the present government, according to many Mexicans, is too friendly to the United States. Most of the newspapers of Mexico City, even those that are pro-Ally in their war sympathies, have a grudge against the United States. El Democrata, the chief organ of the Germans, prints more articles of hate about the United States than any other newspaper. Some American journals are most effectively aiding the Germans in Mexico by demanding armed intervention.

Redencion, another daily, seizes every opportunity to stir the slumbering Mexican against the "Yankees." On August 9th, 1917, it printed on the first page a three column cartoon picturing a nude woman, tied to a stake, representing the revolution. The fire, kindled at her feet, represented the "enemy" of the revolution, and the fresh logs which had been placed on the flames were labelled: "Yankees," "United States," "Friends of the Yankees," etc. Government officials who are friendly to the United States, such as Señor Don Luis Cabrera, unofficially the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, and Señor Don Manuel Amaya, official introductor of Ambassadors, are also "enemies."

El Democrata is one of the morning newspapers which does not receive the Associated Press despatches. Its news, telegrams from the United States and Europe, are sent to Mexico City from