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Rh intervention of Austria in Serbian home politics. It would destroy the moral prestige of America among the nations, which would undoubtedly regard American interference as a return to the policy which tore Texas and California from the bleeding side of the Isthmian Republic. The United States has a treaty with Mexico which provides that all differences shall be referred to arbitration. This treaty cannot be made a "scrap of paper" of, without grave results to the credit of the more powerful disputant. The end and aim of the United States in a policy of intervention could only be one of two things: to annex Mexico, or to place once more upon her shoulders the ancient incubus of slavery from which she has struggled so valiantly to free herself. The genius of the Mexican people will suffice to restore the equilibrium of their commonwealth, or rather to endow it with an equilibrium which, under the régime of crafty and self-seeking dictators, it never possessed. Leave Mexico alone! Give her the opportunity—the common right—of arriving in her own way at a settlement of her own affairs, so long as no flagrant injury is done to neighbouring interests. Such injury as is done is nearly always effected by the reactionaries, the clericos, the Cientificos, the concessionaries, and other vultures who represent the plundering interest, and who throng the frontier town of El Paso, awaiting the signal to swoop on the land which once they ruled and from which they have been justly exiled.

Those who have endured so long and so patiently, who have struggled so valiantly for freedom, must endure and struggle a little longer. That they will do so is certain; for Mexico has always had, and still has, patriots of the most disinterested type, if these have been of widely conflicting aims. As the historian casts his eyes down the varied past of this wonderful land, a circumstance which cannot fail to arrest his interest and inspire his imagination is the quality, the calibre of the men who have lived and died for