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 "Order is being slowly but surely restored. Barring exceptional train robberies and small sore spots in the states of Morales and Durango, conditions are approaching normal everywhere.

"The recently and intelligently revised system of education is in full operation from the common free schools all over the Republic to the National University at the capital.

"The work of railroad rehabilitation is illuminating. More than 12,000 freight cars and locomotives were destroyed down to their steel frames during the Revolution. They are now running at full blast eight or ten workshops located in various sections of the Republic, giving work to 11,000 employees and the cars are being rebuilt wholly at home at the rate of 4,000 per annum."

Compare the foregoing with the following from a report of the debate in the Mexican Chamber of Deputies on the suspension of constitutional guaranties published in El Universal of Mexico City, October 17, 1917, at which time Mr. Douglas must have been in the Mexican capital, according to the Washington Star, in which Luis Cabrera, who at that time was second in importance in the Carranza administration, is quoted as saying:

 "To commence a review of the determining factors of this present situation I must at once refer to our delicate economic situation. And I put it in the first place because we all know that in politics success comes with money and there can be